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Jean-Marc Valat, Steve Dourdil, Ross Butler and Stephen Aravena are Morning Lane; a fast-developing London based band turning heads with a bag full of beautifully written songs, mixing strong melodies and intense music with a mature on-stage energy.
Jean-Marc and Steve individually worked their way through bands in France, Luxembourg and the UK working with the likes of Robert Miles, Stefan Olsdal (Placebo), Skywalker and Simon Boswell (producer for Blur and Leftfield), and sharing the stage with James Brown, INXS and The Pixies. They got to know each other sharing a flat in Morning Lane, Hackney and first gigged together in the Steve Lamacq toted band Blooming Cellar, but it wasn't until late 2003 Jean-Marc decided to put together a new band, and Morning Lane was born.
Ross came on board in early 2004 after working his way through T in the Park appearances, sessions with Abbey Road producers and playing with US top ten band The Leeches' new incarnation The Screeches. Singer, Stephen followed soon after coming from a successful recording and gigging career in Australia with his band Aravena. Having enjoyed some notable recognition after enjoying airplay on commercial radio, Stephen made the trip to the UK and found a musical home in Morning Lane.
The band has since played many of London popular venues: The Marquee, Bush Hall, The Clapham Grand, The Garage, Hard Rock Cafe, Rock Garden and Roadhouse and many others as part of a short tour of British Universities at the beginning of 2006.
2005 saw the independent release of the band's first album Cry With a Smile through the growing internet download distribution route with sites like Napster and iTunes. The album received strong reviews, recognising that the band had something more to offer than the easily pigeonholed "Indie" tag, and attracted the attention of the BBC and BMI, who invited them to perform at a joint showcase with Gibson Guitars at the start of 2006.
2006 and 2007 have seen Morning Lane's tunes popping up on TV across the world and a new EP showcasing a harder, more focused sound yet preserving the band's musical and melodic instincts.
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Member Since: 7/29/2005
Band Website: morning-lane.com
Band Members: VOCALS / GUITAR - STEPHEN ARAVENA, GUITARS - STEPHEN DOURDIL, DRUMS - JEAN-MARC VALAT, BASS - ROSS BUTLER
Record Label: None
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My Blog

New songs all finished and ready for you to hear

Hi everyone!The songs are finished!!! Thats right, after what seems like an eternity, the songs are all finished and you can hear them on our myspace page. www.myspace.com/morninglane. We would love t...
Posted by Morning Lane on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:24:00 PST

1ST ML GIG OF 2008

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME TO SEE US AT THE WATER RATS ON SATURDAY NIGHT. WE ALL HAD A BLAST AND REALLY DO APPRECIATE YOU ALL TURNING UP IT WAS A GREAT NIGHT WHICH ENDED UP TRAWLING FOR A LOCK-IN AT ...
Posted by Morning Lane on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:26:00 PST

Come and get your t-shirts and cds before they disappear!!!

Check out our merchandise page where you can buy some nice stuff :-) http://www.morning-lane.com/merch/merch.php Thanks, ML...
Posted by Morning Lane on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:35:00 PST

NEW RECORDINGS

Yes, we are going in to the studio next weekend to record some new tracks that we are just dying to do. Once they are done; all you lovely Myspace people will be the first to hear them thats a promise...
Posted by Morning Lane on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:18:00 PST

ML UPDATE

After headlining the band's second home last month, The Grand in Clapham Junction, ML topped the bill at STORM in Leicester Square, on the 11th May. The band blasted out a much shorter up tempo set an...
Posted by Morning Lane on Wed, 16 May 2007 04:22:00 PST

WHERE WE'RE AT.......

ML NEWS NEW EP:Beautiful melodies and a harder, brasher and infinitely tighter sound with a beat to blow your speakers!!! That's it! Our new EP is now out and you can listen to and buy the tracks at w...
Posted by Morning Lane on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:51:00 PST

NEW SONGS

We've just posted 3 new tracks on Myspace for all you lovely people - WtF, On The Road and Running Away. WtF (What the Fuck is Going On) it's about what's fucking happening in the world what with peop...
Posted by Morning Lane on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:21:00 PST

Faith?

There are many contemporary schools of thought offering to explain life as we know it. You know: what is life all about? How did we get here? Where are we going? So...
Posted by Morning Lane on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:17:00 PST

NEW WEB SITE

FOR EVEN MORE INFO ON MORNING LANE LOG ON TO http://www.morning-lane.com HERE YOU WILL FIND A TOTALLY NEW AND UPDATED WEB SITE OF THE BAND...
Posted by Morning Lane on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:16:00 PST

GIG AT THE BUSH HALL 3rd AUGUST

FIRSTLY THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO TUNED IN TO US ON GARY CROWLEY'S BBC LONDON SHOW, AND THEN CAME TO OUR LAST 2 SHOWS IN KENTISH TOWN AND THE DAGENHAM TOWN SHOW WHICH IS NOW IN IT'S 55th Y...
Posted by Morning Lane on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:25:00 PST