After the release of an album, Espionage, on a tiny New York-based label in 2006, the band garnered a staggering amount of college airplay, topping request charts from Alaska to Hawaii to Boston. At one time the album was in the top ten ‘most requested’ chart at over fifty radio stations across the country.

Unsurprisingly, the band were invited to play some dates and radio shows in the US. Without the label backing to bring them over, they turned to some rich strangers they met in a pub in Earls Court where Goodie (bass) was working as a barman. In exchange for a lot of free drinks and a little preferential treatment at closing time, they borrowed the money to get them out to their new found American audience. After several shows (including one of the last ever gigs at CBGBs), a cable television appearance on a musical version of Mr and Mrs, a free ride on the flightdeck of a British Airways jumbo jet, a naked radio performance, a near shooting, a festival headline and many hundreds of road miles, they returned, safe in the knowledge that if nothing else, they’d made an impression.

All of which brings us rapidly up to date, with Essex County Line, the band’s first UK single. Essex County Line was produced by Glenn Skinner, a hugely experienced producer with many top-selling singles to his name; previously working for Sanctuary Records, his credits include a vast range of artists from Quincy Jones to Alabama 3.
Device spent the whole summer playing any and every festival that would have them and are now back in the studio completing tracks for their debut album, after which they will be promoting the album on the American college circuit and doing a short tour of the Czech Republic.