The View

The View members Kyle Falconer (vocalist), Kieran Webster (bassist), Pete Reilly (guitarist), and Steven Morrison (drummer) -- were still teenagers when they got together in their native Dundee in 2005. They initially cut their teeth as a cover band, but were soon writing their own songs while practicing in the back of a local pub. They signed with the Dundee-based independent Two Thumbs label and in March 2006, released an eponymous EP. The album caught the attention of several BBC Radio 1 and 2 presenters who began giving the band airplay. A high-profile appearance at the Reading and Leeds Festival also helped build the group's fan base. That same year, the band signed with 1965 Records, a label distributed by Columbia and run by James Endeacott (who had worked with similar red-hot acts, from the Strokes to the Libertines). Buzz began to build around the band's promise and peaked with the international release of 2007's Hats Off to the Buskers, a confident debut album that topped the U.K. charts and spawned the hit singles "Wasted Little DJ's," and "Same Jeans," the latter of which reached number three in the U.K.

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