They were brought together by their love of the waves - but hotly tipped rockers Sunset Sons insist they are not a “cheesy surfer band”.
The group, made up of three Brits and an Australian, started making music three years ago, honing their sound in French surf spot Hossegor in the summers and the ski resorts of the Alps in the winters.
They have just finished recording their debut album in Nashville with Grammy award-winning producer Jacquire King after Polydor Records won a fierce scrum to sign them.
Singer and keyboard player Rory Williams, 26, from Dorset, said: “We don’t want to get categorised as this cheesy surfer band.
“People have this image of surfing being chilled out, but most of the time when I’m on the water I’m thinking, ‘This wave’s going to kill me!’
“You think of surf music as a singer/songwriter sitting round a campfire, we don’t write that kind of music.”
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Guitarist Rob Windram, 29, from Epsom, drummer Jed Laidlaw, 30, from Tynemouth, and 26-year-old bassist Pete Harper, from Sydney, complete the band. They can already boast some famous admirers in Nashville. Harper said: “Some of the musicians who popped in were ridiculous. Cheap Trick, Don Henley from the Eagles, Dave Stewart.”
The band are now preparing for stardom after covering “every single job possible” to make ends meet.
Windram said: “We had to try and make money off-season. I would go away and do drug trials, come back with a couple of grand.”
Williams added: “We don’t really want to go back to that. We feel blessed to be in the position we are.”
The Fall Line EP is out now on iTunes.
