The Heavy

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The Heavy
The Heavy at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City (2010)
The Heavy at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City (2010)
General information
origin England
Genre (s) Neo soul , indie rock , funk
founding 2007
Website www.theheavy.co.uk
Current occupation
Kelvin Swaby
Daniel Taylor
Spencer Page
Chris Ellul
former members
Drums
 Corin Dingley
Keyboard , vocals
 Hannah Collins
singing
 Leah Symons
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The House That Dirt Built
  US 192 05/08/2010 (1 week)
The Glorious Dead
  US 191 09/08/2012 (1 week)
Hurt & the Merciless
  AT 73 04/15/2016 (1 week)
  CH 41 04/10/2016 (1 week)
  UK 36 04/14/2016 (1 week)

The Heavy are a British indie rock band from Noid near Bath in south-west England.

Career

In the late 1990s, friends Kelvin Swaby and Dan Taylor founded the band The Heavy with other musicians . It wasn't until 2007 that they recorded their first singles for a London label. Her debut album Great Vengeance and Furious Fire was released in the same year . The following year it was also released in the USA and The Heavy performed at the South by Southwest Festival in Texas , among others . The two singers Collins and Symons left the band; Singer-songwriter Swaby and guitarist Taylor led the band with four of them, bassist Spencer Page and new drummer Chris Ellul.

Almost two years later their second album The House That Dirt Built was released , which brought them their breakthrough in the States. It peaked at number 6 on the Heatseeker charts and also made it onto the official Billboard 200 .

Her single How You Like Me Now? is included in the soundtrack of the films Horrible Bosses , The Fighter and Ted . In addition, the title Short Change Hero serves as the background music for the intro video of Borderlands 2 , a game by the development studio Gearbox Software , as the theme tune for the TV series Strike Back and the epilogue of the action flick Faster . In the USA network series Suits , singles were used such as: Coleen , How Do You Like Me Now? and What Makes A Good Man?

The song What Makes A Good Man served as one of the official theme songs for the 2013 WWE Royal Rumble.

Discography

Albums

  • Great Vengeance and Furious Fire (2007)
  • The House That Dirt Built (2009)
  • The Glorious Dead (2012)
  • Hurt & the Merciless (2016)
  • Sons (2019)

Singles

  • That Kind of Man (2007)
  • Set Me Free (2008)
  • Oh no! Not you again! (2009)
  • Sixteen (2009)
  • How You Like Me Now? (2009, UK:silversilver)
  • No Time (2009)
  • What Makes a Good Man? (2012)
  • Since You Been Gone (2016)
  • Turn Up (2016)

swell

  1. ↑ The Heavy in the US charts
  2. ↑ The Heavy in the UK charts
  3. ↑ Horrible Bosses soundtrack list in the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ The Fighter's soundtrack list in the Internet Movie Database
  5. ↑ Suits: Soundtrack & Complete List of Songs. In: www.what-song.com. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK

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