[3] The band has been tipped by the BBC as having a "promising future ahead of them" after winning the Best Alternative Act category in the Live and Unsigned 2010 competition at the O2 Arena in London – the United Kingdom's largest national music competition for unsigned bands.

[4][5][6] The members of We Beat The System met while attending Venerable Bede Church of England School in Sunderland and formed the band in October 2009.

[7] They have since supported The Automatic, Frankie & The Heartstrings, Chapel Club, Flashguns, Dutch Uncles and Wilder.

[8] After winning Live and Unsigned, the band was invited to play at Sunderland's 2010 Split Festival.

The band has since played at Newcastle's 2011 Evolution Festival[9] and is currently recording with Let’s Buy Happiness guitarist James Hall.