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Enormous first plugged-in their guitars in 1998 in a rehearsal room in Mansfield, England. Davy Lawrence (guitar/vocals), Graham Boffey (drums), David Graham (bass) and Steve O'Toole (guitar) joined forces with The Enormous Horns Ashley Morgan (trumpet) and Paul Varga (saxophone).
They played up and down the country in the usual toilets and dives before releasing their debut single My Type on Beatific Records, a small independent label based in their home town.
“We were a very hungry band,” says Davy now, “we would literally play for sandwiches.”
The single attracted some excellent review in the national music press:
"They have it in them to be a fine singles band and then some" - NME.
"Firmly in the tradition of classic British songwriting. Observant and witty. A joy to listen to" - Melody Maker.
They also contributed four songs to the Beatific compilation album The Cigarette Machine From God, garnering praise from the Sunday Times no less:
"Pure horn-rimmed pop with brass reinforced hook-lines that don't let go. Enormous deliver upbeat, soppy, singalong choruses one minute, then dark Costello-ish verses the next."
In 1999 the band released their first full length album, Electric Baby Grand. Full of unabashed love songs and thrashy pop gems it perfectly demonstrated their brand of edgy, hook-laden guitar pop.
Enormous continued gigging until the release of the single Let's Run Away Together in 2000, which was quicjly followed by the band's eagerly anticipated second album Situation:Comedy.
During the Better Shop Around tour that followed, Let's Run Away Together rapidly became a live favourite with its magnificent snarling guitar lines and stick-in-the-head brass hooks. In an article in Mojo magazine at the time, when asked about their notoriously loud live shows, drummer Graham Boffey quoted Laurel and Hardy and quipped “We are musicians who play neither by note nor by ear. We use brute strength.”
A few years later the group began recording Almost Everything, their 3rd album. It was never completed.
It was never completed. Somewhere in the middle of that long hot summer, a concentrated disagreement developed between several members that came to a rather brutal conclusion one night during rehearsals of new material. The result was that guitarist Steve O'Toole and bass player David Graham left the group to explore separate interests.
Dismembered in more ways than one, the band ground to a premature, temporary halt.
Enormous took an unarranged 3 year break, pursuing various solo projects and involving themselves with an assortment of other artists and performers…
But in 2006 Enormous returned and signed to independent label Big Arena Records.
The Almost Everything sessions were kick-started and new material recorded including a new single, The Way That It Should Be.
After a long painful break Enormous are back. They're full of songs, they're full of spittle, and they're full of themselves.
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