About Amber Run
Amber Run are a British indie rock band from Nottingham, composed of Joshua "Joe" Keogh, Tom Sperring, and Henry Wyeth. The band have released three full-length albums, three mini-albums, and five EPs. Initially called Amber, they later changed their name to avoid conflict with the German dance-pop singer of same name.
Joshua Keogh, Tom Sperring, and Will Jones were originally friends from Buckinghamshire at Dr Challoner's Grammar School, where they played in an alternative rock band. With Felix Archer from the same area and Henry Wyeth from Kent, they met while studying at the University of Nottingham. They all studied for degrees in humanities and law but abandoned their studies in the second year to focus on the band. Keogh initially performed under his own name and started to get "a bit of momentum we sat down and jammed out one day and there was something about it. It was so much better than what I was doing solo, so we started a band".
Thanks to local BBC presenter Dean Jackson, the band featured on the BBC Introducing stage at Reading Festival in 2013—only the fourth show the band had ever played. Their presence attracted a number of A&R people to the show, and after a few weeks of negotiating, the band signed to RCA.
On 14 February 2014, Amber Run released their first EP, Noah, which consisted of four songs. Two months later, after supporting Kodaline on their March 2014 tour, they released their second EP, titled Spark, on 18 April 2014. Their third EP, Pilot, was released on 19 September 2014.
In March 2014, the band announced they had been recording their debut album throughout January and February, with Mike Crossey and Sam Winfield, "who's in many ways the sixth member of our band".
In July and August 2014, the group released videos for the singles "I Found" and "Pilot", respectively. Speaking to LeftLion magazine in December 2014, they explained: "We were already discussing what to do with it ; it's not a song that screams "single" but we wanted to release it in some form. Releasing it with "Pilot" just seemed to be a good method to bring attention to the whole EP, and doing something creative with the videos is a bit more interesting. Linking the videos gives you more scope... expand the storyline past three and a half minutes."
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