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Biography:
New Young Pony Club originally formed as a duo in 2004 when guitarist Andy Spence (born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England) met vocalist Tahita Bulmer (b. London, England) and bonded over a mutual love of New York noisenik's LCD Soundsystem.
Over the space of a few months they put together a full band of like-minded new wave musicians, featuring Sarah Jones (b. Hereford, Herefordshire, England; drums), Igor Volk (b. Kiev, Ukraine; bass) and Lou Hayter (b. Bromley, Kent; keyboards), and started to make some low-slung sleazy club music, much like LCD Soundsystem but with more accomplished vocals.
They released two limited edition 7-inch singles on Tirk Records ("Tight Fit"/"Ice Cream" and "The Get Go") followed by "Get Lucky" on Noize Records! The releases were enough to have major labels fighting to sign a band with true crossover appeal. In early 2006 New Young Pony Club signed to Modular Records, an Island Records offshoot label, under the guidance of Phil Hutchinson.
The first thing Hutchinson did was to re-release the band's first single with a new series of remixes. A tour supporting Lily Allen helped to put the band into an arena where they were getting media coverage in the right areas, and interest in their MySpace website rocketed.
March 2007 saw the release of another dance floor stomper in the form of "The Bomb", which fused the driving bass lines of Interpol with the Killers' rousing synth riffs. Their album debut, Fantastic Playroom, received excellent reviews on its release in June.
