Deaf Havana are an English alternative rock band from Hunstanton and King's Lynn, Norfolk, England.
Deaf Havana was formed when the original members met at the King's Lynn campus of The College of West Anglia.
[1] The band wrote songs and a demo White Lines But No Camera was recorded in August 2006 at The Lodge, Northampton.
"Tell Me More Georgie Boy" is the only song from any previous release to make it onto Meet Me Halfway, at Least, and is now called "Another Day in This House".
Beginning in October 2007, the band began work on new songs, which eventually were released on It's Called the Easy Life.
The EP was eventually recorded by Jonny Renshaw from Devil Sold His Soul and was mixed by Matt O'Grady (You Me at Six, Architects) and released in October 2008.
[2][3] January 2009 saw the band complete a UK wide tour with We Are the Ocean and The Urgency,[4] and the release of their first music video for the song "Oh Howard, You Crack Me Up".
Before the release of the album, Deaf Havana embarked on the UK Metal Hammer Introducing Tour along with Young Guns and The Casino Brawl.
A week after the final date for this tour, Deaf Havana played an album release party show in hometown King's Lynn, with support from Underline the Sky and All Forgotten.
'Fools and Worthless Liars' was again Produced and Engineered by Matt O'Grady at his home studios in Woking, Surrey, and mixed by John Mitchell.
The band supported You Me at Six, along with Kids in Glass Houses and The Blackout, for a Halloween special at The Regal in Oxford.
At the band's 17 December 2010 show at the Liverpool Masque Loft, a new song was played, tentatively named "Down Syndrome Pigs".
It was rumoured, during the highly successful An Evening With Deaf Havana - Unplugged that the new, yet currently unnamed, album would be released "around September".
Moreover, the band created a feature-length documentary, entitled English Hearts, which was released as a CD/DVD combination on the deluxe version of Old Souls.
On 8 August 2013, the band were again invited Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show to premiere their new single "Mildred (Lost a Friend)" as the Hottest Record in the World.
Throughout this period, the band continued to perform live and were reward for recent success with place supporting Bruce Springsteen at the annual Hard Rock Calling Festival and Muse on the German part of their tour.
On an individual level, the band announced their biggest ever headline tour to take place at eight locations across the UK in October 2013 finishing at The Roundhouse in London.
On 9 October, the second single from the album, "Trigger", premiered on BBC Radio 1 as Daniel P Carter's Rockest Record.
Working like this felt backwards to James, who previously only written songs on his acoustic guitar, with continuous input from the rest of the band.
The music is in turn with introspective and joyous, with help form the London Contemporary Voice Choir, who feature on five tracks.
The band performed with the choir at their intimate show at London's Union Chapel for the War Child charity as part of the Brit Awards gigs.