• The Lofts Band group photo: Craig, Matt, Rod & Ray.

The Loft’s Band are:

Matt Loft – Vocals and Bass guitar
Craig Loft – Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Ray Sunshine – Drums and Background Noise
Rod Lightning – Lead Guitar and Triangle

Background Information:

Origin: Berkshire, UK
Genre: Rock | Rock/Pop | Singer/Songwriter
Website: https:www.theloftsband.com

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Influences:

The Lofts Band are inspired by all musicians, but especially influenced by the artists and groups of popular music from the 1960’s and ‘70’s.

The Lofts Band personal musical influences span multiple genres but most notably The Funk Brothers, The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Queen, David Bowie, The Eurythmics …and all the ‘60’s and ‘70’s giants.

History and musical evolution:

In 1987 and inspired by a love of music, brothers Matt and Craig Loft co-formed a group with like-minded school friends Mike Daly and Pete Moore, all sharing common goals to learn to play guitars and perform.

Allotting the instrument roles amongst themselves before knowing how to play, the friends then spent their spare time together learning their instruments with a simple goal of getting good enough to play live and perform cover versions of songs by the bands they admired.

Pete dropped out quickly from his guitar role but remained a supporter of the band and Craig formally switched to rhythm guitar from his originally designated role of being a drummer without a drumset.

The trio continued jamming together but found consistent difficulties securing a drummer until they discovered that Rob Forisky, a friend from school, was also learning to play drums. With Rob on board, the band practiced hard and progressed to playing live at school events and in local pubs before taking the decision to dissolve the band in 1989.

Over the next few years, Matt and Craig formed a new cover band after jamming with friends and they played a few gigs, with a high point playing at the Hammersmith Palais nightclub.

In 1991, the group invited Mike Daly back into the band and over the following year, they continued jamming together amidst a revolving door of drummers, eventually settling back into a four-piece in 1993 after fortuitously meeting Eddie Wastnidge who had impressed them with his drumming skills during a private party that both bands played at. With this new stable line-up of drums, bass, two guitars and vocal duties, the band named themselves, “Jacobs Ladder” and gained further experience playing live anywhere that they could get themselves a booking. These gigs resulted in saving enough funds to pay for a couple of days in Wired recording studios in Reading, to create a demo although these tracks were uncompleted.

Further line-up changes followed with the departure of Mike in 1996. This saw the group continue as an un-named three-piece, then in 1998 they returned to the four-piece format with the addition of Nick Wastnidge (Eddie’s brother) on lead guitar.

A number of regular live gigs at pubs, clubs, parties and weddings followed but this iteration of the band entered a hiatus and the band members wound the group down in 1999.

Since starting to learn to play music, Matt and Craig had begun to write and perform their own songs and wanted to record, produce and release their own original music.

To this end Matt and Craig formed The Lofts Band and between 2009 and 2016 set about recording their songs whilst Matt was living in Madrid, Spain and Craig was living in Berkshire, UK.

Upon completion of the first cuts of their first batch of songs, the band joined Tunecore to release the original music they were creating and their music can be heard on all of the major music streaming services worldwide.

Current:

Matt and Craig continue to write their own brand of pop and rock songs and are currently in the studio recording.

The Lofts Band will be releasing more music in the future – Updates are posted on the band’s official website: theloftsband.com

Studio recordings:

2017

  • “Madridenhead”
    In 2017 they released their first collection of 10 songs on the album “Madridenhead”. This album was retired from issue on 1st February 2021 following the release of “Madridenhead Revisited” and is no longer available.

2021

  • “Madridenhead Revisited”
    In 2020 the band re-recorded and remixed their first collection of songs, wanting to improve on the production value of the “Madridenhead” tracks originally recorded in Spain and the UK.
    “Madridenhead Revisited” released on 1st February 2021 and is available from all major digital music sellers and streaming services.

2023

  • “Loft²” (Loft Squared):
    A second collection of 10 brand new original songs, “Loft²” (Loft Squared) released on 4th July 2024 and is available from all major digital music sellers and streaming services.

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