Warwick Summer Party presents… Clean Bandit

In the first in a series of articles profiling the performers at this year’s sun, fun (and quite possibly, alcohol) fuelled music extravaganza – the Warwick Summer Party – Boar Music takes a look at Clean Bandit, the electronic quartet who burst onto the music scene last year.

The band met as undergrads studying at Jesus College, Cambridge: indeed, playing at Warwick, which only scraped the top ten of the Guardian University league table earlier this month, might be a step down for the clever chaps. After bonding over a love of both electronic and classical music, they formed Clean Bandit; the name itself is, according to Wikipedia, apparently a translation of a Russian phrase meaning “complete bastard”. Luke and Jake Patterson, Grace Chatto and Milan Neil Amin-Smith (yep, definitely Cambridge) created the tracks ‘A+E’ and ‘Mozart’s House’ in 2009, which laid the foundations for the success they’ve been seeing recently. The tracks were eventually released as singles in 2012 and 2013 respectively – ‘Mozart’s House’ in particular was a bit of a hit last year. However, it was only this year that the band dominated the charts, with ‘Rather Be’ storming to the top in January (you might have heard it more than a couple of times in Kasbah).

And now, the world-beating band is heading to the field behind University House on June 22^nd – have a listen to their biggest hits below (as if you haven’t already), and look out for an interview with the band in The Boar soon!