London’s O2 five years in a row. So what better time to sit down with James, Brad, Connor and Tristan to take a look back at the past 10 years of The Vamps?Take us back to 2012 – how did it all begin?Brad: ‘It all started when me and James met after he found me online.
We met at my house in Birmingham and we started writing songs together and we just clicked. ‘We started doing covers of bands on YouTube, which started to get a bit of traction.
We met Connor the exact same way through YouTube, we saw a cover that he was doing and we loved it and thus the band was formed. ‘During that process, we got a record deal to Mercury Records and began writing our first album in amongst doing all these covers.
So whilst we were working on our album behind the scenes, we were trying our best to garner a global fan base and start reaching out to people as far and as wide as we could.’You guys started out on YouTube, but the landscape of social media has changed so much.
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