Having honed their craft over a 5-year development – touring, recording and sneaking into the owner of their now label͛s grounds uninvited to play their set – The Wholls have steadily carved out their place in the music scene with a sound and energy that is totally their own.
The music these guys make has been given some of the highest accolades having been playlisted on Radio 1 Feb 2016, Radio X ROTW, Virgin Radio ROTW, Bayhern 3 Germany ROTW, currently on German FM stations and receiving spot plays in the UK. Spotify streams are in excess of 1.5 million and additions to Spotify curated playlists include ͚Rock Rotation͛ [#1 position held w/c 05/02/18] (185k followers); ͚Rock United͛ (35k followers) and ͚Walk Like A Badass͛(380k followers).
In 2016 The Wholls were asked to perform on the BBC Introducing stage at Reading Festival and were hailed as Radio 1͛s ͚Best Of͛ Reading Festival 2016 (video on website). Setting their sites for the European market the band flew out to Germany in September of that year to perform the Reeperbahn Festival. With a small, low-budget student radio campaign in place they totally packed out the Hamburg venue, with a queue round the block of 300+ people who could not get in. Luckily some of the people who did manage to witness the show were Sony Music and in December 2016 The Wholls signed a licensing deal for GSA.
2017 kicked off with a European tour alongside Royal Republic, taking in venues across the continent packed with up to 3,000 people. They returned to Germany in May 2017 to perform a residency at Sage Club, which by the final week was sold out (as was their headline show in November of that year to celebrate the club͛s 20th Birthday). Whilst in Berlin the band played a private party for Shazaam who have since been huge supporters.
The Wholls released their latest single ͚Going Down͛ on February 9th accompanied by a video totally paid for by Shazaam. They are currently on headline tour of Germany sponsored by Jägermeister and return to the UK in March 2018 to kick off a headline tour in association with Live Nation, This Feeling and Metropolis Music.
Their blinding live performances saw them take in numerous stages in 2017 – part of This Feeling & Jack Daniel͛s ͚Jack 7͛ for 2017 playing all TF/JD festival stages; main support at Bedford Park for The Kaiser Chiefs and Feeder; The Isle of Wight, The Great Escape, TRNSMT, Y-Not, Reading, Wilkestock (BBC Introducing), Sound of the Forest (Germany), Kazoopa (Headline) – and this year is set to be even more exciting for this hard-working band. John Giddings͛ Solo Music Agency took the band on for Europe in 2018 and adds to the ever-expanding group of respected, globally established teams that are putting their efforts into breaking this band.
To add to their current exposure a film sync in Germany has been secured (Germany͛s biggest film of the year) and a TV sync in Canada and ESPN in America ensures that fans across the pond will soon be joining the party.
If you haven͛t yet seen these guys rip a venue to pieces live – get to their next show. If you haven͛t yet heard the debut album, which has garnered the support of Sony, Jägermeister, Shazaam, Jack Daniel͛s, Radio 1 and BBC Introducing – listen to it today. If you haven͛t yet discovered the best guitar band to come out of the UK in many years – well, what are you waiting for?
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