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The Debut Album
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""A feast of superlative tunes Consistently excellent"" The Fly
""The kind of soaring, anthemic, quintessentially English pop music that sends us weak at the knees."" NME
""They have the making of greatness about them"" The Sunday Times Culture
The Upper Room are Alex Miller (vocals & guitar), James Pattinson (guitar), Beau Barnard (bass) and Jon Barnett (drums). Four young men from Brighton who are on a very simple mission: to create the classic album, the finest pop songs, and steal your hearts...
Alex Miller is already showing all the traits of becoming a fascinating frontman. Compulsively paranoid, unashamedly romantic, quintessential english vocals and lyrics torn equally between love and anguish comparisons to Ian Curtis and Morrissey wouldnt be misguided yet theres something strikingly unique in him. Spending his formative years writing songs in his bedroom, Alex was primarily composing dance tracks on his computer until he discovered Phil Spector. At that point, the infamous wall of sound sent him spiralling in a new direction. Once realising that a full band would be needed, Alex brought in friends James, Beau and Jon to complete the works.
With such a collection of expansive pop songs in place, it took no time at all before word spread on the band. When Sony were brought to the bands studio via mutal friends, a deal was instantly placed on the table. No gigs, no demos.
The first single All Over This Town arrived in the summer of 2004 a brilliant and contagiously catchy song Alex wrote on Christmas Day between main course and dessert to escape the heat of the kitchen. Tours ensued with Hope of the States, Electric Soft Parade and Longview amongst others, sending The Upper Room on a gruelling run of the UK.
The band are currently putting the finishing touches to their debut album. Having started work on it just prior to Christmas 2004, the record was recorded in Brixtons Dairy Studios with Paul Schroeder (previously worked with The Stone Roses). With their aim in mind of producing an album that will arguably be one of the records for 2006, The Upper Room will shortly unveil their masterpiece.

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Member Since: 10/20/2005
Band Website: theupperroomsite.com
Band Members: Alex Miller (vocals & guitar)
James Pattinson (guitar)
Beau Barnard (bass)
Jon Barnett (drums)
Influences: ALEXMusic Phil Spector Back to Mono (Box Set) Kate Bush Tom Petty Bob DylanFilms Amores Perros Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu Annie Hall Woody AllenBooks Catch 22 Joseph Heller Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh TV Curb Your Enthusiasm
JIMMusic The Clash Led Zeppelin The SmithsFilm City Of God La Haine The Godfather The Commitments TV South Park
BEAUMusic Razorlight Up all Night Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks David Bowie Lets Dance (track) Miles Davis Kind of BlueFilm Beautiful Mind
JONMusic Mansun Jeff Buckley Supergrass Manic Street Preachers Rolling Stones David Bowie Prince Stevie WonderFilm Withnail and I Trainspotting Human Traffic
Record Label: Columbia
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

NEW BAND

Hi, i've formed a new band, we're called VOXPOP, please come and visit our new myspace......www.myspace.com/voxpoplondonSee you soon!Alex
Posted by The Upper Room on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:38:00 PST

Message from Alex

Hi everyone, as there is quite a lot of misinformation going around at the moment, I am writing this message to clear up a few things. People have been guessing (and guessing wrongly) what the n...
Posted by The Upper Room on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:00:00 PST

New Pics

Hi guys now we've got some spare time from the road we thought we'd update the pics section with some of our favourite pics taken by the fans over the last 3 months of touring. Hope you like em! If yo...
Posted by The Upper Room on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 02:02:00 PST

Southampton

Hi everyone we're in Southampton; we've just done a lunchtime gig at Southampton uni, and we're about to do a live radio show at Power fm, so tune in if you're about! We also found out this ...
Posted by The Upper Room on Tue, 09 May 2006 07:17:00 PST

New Tracks

Hi everyone,We've uploaded 2 more tracks, Your Body and The Centre which we're playing in our set. Please take the time to listen / download and tell us what you think, we hope you like them! Thanks t...
Posted by The Upper Room on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:38:00 PST

Bristol

Hello!Just want to say a huge thanks to everyone who came down last night at Nottingham and the night before at Leeds. We've really enjoyed both of the shows so far. The turnout, especially for last n...
Posted by The Upper Room on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:51:00 PST

Tour

Hello! We're looking forward to our headline tour which starts on monday 24th, please come down to see us..... Also, you can vote for our video in the mtv2 nme chart: http://www.mtv2europe.com/m...
Posted by The Upper Room on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:52:00 PST

O2 instore shows

Hi guys We're going to be playing two rather unusual instore shows during the week of release of our new single Black And White (w/c 8th May). They're going to be on separate days in two of O2's ...
Posted by The Upper Room on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:28:00 PST

4play

Hi, spent today in metway studios brighton recording a programme for channel 4 (4play), we played through a few tracks and did an interview, think it's going to be on at the end of April. We've ...
Posted by The Upper Room on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:25:00 PST

Update

Hello! We're having a great time on the Bellx1 tour. Thank you to everyone who's come to see us so far. We're really looking forward to our first headline tour which starting on Apri...
Posted by The Upper Room on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:10:00 PST