“Hailing from across the globe, and pulling influence from ‘70s new wave, ‘80s pop sensibilities, all the way through to the ‘00s grit-n-grind indie scene, Anteros spin it in a new and thrilling direction”

NME Article on the band

Anteros are a 4 piece band consisting of Josh Rumble on bass guitar, drummer Harry Balazs, Jackson Couzens on guitar and lead singer Laura Hayden. Residing in London now, originally the 3 boys are from all over the UK and Laura is from Barcelona.

Many of the bands songs revolve around the theme of being in your twenties, being young, making mistakes and attempting to grow from them. Lead singer Laura is also the main songwriter for the band and many of her songs touch on these subjects surrounding being young. One of the best, in my opinion, is ‘Call Your Mother’ which includes the lines ‘‘Call your mother she can’t make it better // Tell your father that you really fucked up’ which summaries how it feels making stupid mistakes and then having to relay these to your parents if you dare to.

Love, equality and Women Power: working together instead of against each other.

Laura talking about the Bonnie music video in an Interview for DIY

Many of the songs also focus on the typical aspects of your twenties too – falling in love, getting drunk, falling out of love. But the band also focus on a range of important political and social issues too. Last year they sold ‘Fiery Rose’ t-shirts (lyrics from the single Bonnie) and all proceeds went to Women’s Aid. The video for Bonnie, which Laura co-directed, also shows two women dancing together in a boxing ring – highlighting aspects like ‘love, equality and women power’.

As well as highlighting and providing a platform for women’s equality issues, the band are raising awareness around the harm that plastic is doing to the planet. They’ve explained in interviews that they are rallying for venues to cut down their use of of non-reusable plastics including plastic cups and straws. Their video for ‘Drive On’ – linked below – shows the band being consumed and suffocated by plastics, the perfect metaphor for the way we are heading if with do not drastically change our relationship with plastics.

The band have supported the likes of Two Door Cinema Club, Blaenavon and White Lies and are heading out on their own UK tour starting on April 7th in Nottingham. The bands debut album is also being released this month! There is no official date as of yet but I can’t wait to hear more from this exciting up and coming band!

To find out when the album is released make sure to follow Anteros on their social media links below as well as following the Featured Artists playlist on Spotify which has been updated with my top 5 favourite Anteros songs.