The Lancashire Hotpots
"Steve Lamacq" on Radio 1 - Quote ... one of his Top 5 highlights the Glastonbury festival 2009
There aren’t many bands who can have their videos played on MTV2 and also have real ales named after them but there also aren’t many bands like The Lancashire Hotpots.
With 800,000 Myspace plays currently to their credit, their first album Never Mind The Hotpots with its comedic folk observations on 21st Century life reached No 2 in the BBC 6 Music Album charts with national support from Radio 1 (Colin Murray, Rob Da Bank), Radio 2 (Chris Evans, Arthur Smith) and 6Music (Steve Lamacq). The Hotpots have now unveiled their new oeuvre ‘Pot Sounds’ which like its predecessor has made No 1 in the iTunes comedy download charts. Its further comic insights look into topics such as climate change (Don’t Make The Polar Bears Cry), Saturday afternoon shopping (I Fear Ikea), illegal file sharing and how ultimately binge drinking Britain can ensure sporting success in 2012 (The Beer Olympics).
In the 18 months since their first live appearance they have become one of the biggest live bands in the North West of England climaxing in April 2008 with a 1,200 sell out at the 53 Degrees venue in Preston. Their current Pot Sounds tour also takes in twenty dates from Carlisle to Cambridge supporting ardent fan Paddy McGuinness on his ‘Paddy McGuinness and You’ national tour.
”its massive” Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2
'the sexiest band in the world' Arthur Smith, The Smith Lectures, BBC Radio 2
“Masters of parody” The Guardian
“A revelation....catch them live whenever you can” Is This Music
“Like a musical version of Peter Kay”. 4/5 Manchester Evening News
”Britain's finest comedy musical act of the 21st Century" Designer Magazine
”The Hotpots aren’t just bucolic satire, they’re bright, talented and heart-warmingly, pant-wettingly funny”. Subbaculcha.com
”The Lancashire Hotpots can only be described as utterly brilliant” www.virtualfestivals.com
"probably the best concert I've ever been to in my life". Adam Catterall, DJ, Rock FM
"if only someone had played this to an early teen Morrisey we would all have been saved a shed load of misery (He's Turned Emo) Unpeeled Magazine