Clean Bandit

Clean Bandit

All Events

1 event
SMK Live Presents - Basement Jaxx (Live) & Clean Bandit (Live)
Stadium MK, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
England Vs Panama World Cup Screening, Groove Armada, Jax Jones, SIGMA, Katy B, Moonchild Sanelly, hosted by Bimini

About Clean Bandit

Genre
Indie / Emo, Dance /…
Band members Jack Patterson, Grace Chatto and Milan Neil Amin-Smith met while studying as undergraduates at Jesus College, University of Cambridge.

At the time, Chatto was leading a string quartet together with Amin-Smith. Chatto was Patterson's girlfriend at the time and Patterson would record Chatto's performances. He started re-mixing these recordings with drum beats and other electronic music he created and let Chatto listen to these recordings which she liked.

One of their friends, Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuka, then wrote lyrics for the piece and the song Mozart's House materialized. Eventually, the idea of forming a band came.

In December 2012 the group released their debut single A+E, which peaked at number 100 on the UK Singles Chart.

In January 2014 they scored their first UK Singles Chart-topping single with Rather Be, featuring elements of classical music, along with a dance music beat. Rather Be remained at the top of the chart for four weeks.