The View play warm up gig at Eric's Liverpool

The View Eric's Mathew St, Saturday March 10th

Tickets are £12.50 and available online at 0151 236 9994/ www.ericslive.com and www.ticketweb.com

 The View have confirmed a special one off warm up gig at Eric's in Mathew St this coming Saturday. This is a one off event to perform some of their new material along with some of their old favourites.

Coming from Dundee, Scotland, The View have come from humble beginnings to assert themselves as a one of the most exciting young rock bands that only happens once in a generation.

Plucked from their somewhat bleak youth training jobs and blasting straight into a number one debut album, cash, wealth, fame and infamy in equal doses before their twenties, it’s easy to understand that it’s been an intense and electrifying journey. Recognition as an incredible live band came early.

Prior to storming the U.K. with their energetic, scruffy ska-punk and throwback rock, the young bandmates cut their teeth as a cover band. But as of 2007, when they made their heralded U.S. debut at a concert in New York City, those days were far behind them.

Kyle Falconer on vocals and rhythm guitar, Kieren Webster on bass, Peter Reilly on lead guitar and Steve Morrison on drums got together and recorded an EP with a local label. On the strength of this success they went on to sign with James Endeacott’s 1965 label through Columbia. Gaining wide notoriety and massive radio coverage with hit singles off their debut album Hats off to the Buskers led on an intense period of international touring and promotion.

The number one debut album was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Music Prize, it also spawned the hit singles Superstar Tradesman, Wasted Little DJ's and the anthemic Same Jeans. The band's influences were easy to note, the Clash, Oasis and the Libertines among others but the View’s lyrics remained slightly more mysterious, a product of Falconer's brogue and affinity for Scottishisms.

Which B*tch? Their second album was released in 2009 and featured Paolo Nutini guesting on the track Covers.  In 2010 frontman Falconer sang on the Mark Ronson and the Business International single The Bike Song, which co-written by Liverpool singer Dave McCabe from The Zutons.

Bread and Circuses, the band’s third studio album was recorded with producer Youth and released last year and their fourth album is expected for release this summer.