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What Makes You Beautiful

This unique five-piece exploded onto the Derby music scene just over a year a go and have gone from strength to strength, wowing listeners with their exciting 'mad new style'.

Marty (lead vocals/Synth), Liam 鈥楥ripz鈥� (MC Vocals), Lewis (Guitar/Backing vocals), Niall (Guitar/Backing vocals) and Duan 鈥渟tarted out as group of mates鈥� from the Derby area including Chaddesden, Mickleover and Kilburn, playing for fun.

They have since gone on to bring together all of their many different influences to create a 鈥渟ynthetic opera鈥�, combining everything they like to create a new genre of music.

What Makes You Beautiful

The group describes their music as containing elements of electronica, grime, pop-punk and nu-rave.

They aim to 鈥渕ake music that people want to party to鈥�. Cripz says: 鈥渨e write music that we would like to dance to ourselves, so we know that other people would like to dance to it too鈥�.

Earlier this year the band toured the UK with Brokencyde, an electro band from New Mexico, USA. They had 鈥渁n amazing time鈥� and received a great response on tour. They now want to continue performing at different venues up and down the country.

Last week it was announced that they had been chosen to perform on the 大象传媒 Introducing stage at the Reading and Leeds Festival this summer. What Makes You Beautiful are absolutely ecstatic about this news and can鈥檛 wait to perform for their biggest audience yet.

One of their favourite songs to perform live is 鈥淐an鈥檛 Controller鈥� which is all about computer games from their generation. Their newest song is the energetic鈥淪teppin-Up鈥� which the band hope will get people dancing.

Marty says they 鈥渨ant to give Derby something to be proud of鈥� and show there is more musical talent out there than just indie music.

If you want to go along to support the band and check out their unique style their upcoming gigs are:

13th August, at The Vic Inn, Derby
26th August, Festival warm up at The Vic Inn, Derby
28th August, Reading Festival, 大象传媒 Introducing Stage
30th August, Leeds Festival, 大象传媒 Introducing Stage