Golden Silvers

The band gained recognition by winning Glastonbury's prestigious New Talent competition in 2008 and subsequently performed on The Other stage that year.^[2][3] They played the Glastonbury Festival in 2009.^[4]

The band released its debut album True Romance on 20 April 2009.^[5] Describing the new album, The Guardian's reviewer wrote "flamboyant lyrics, references to Greek myth and big, elastic bass lines dominate".^[6]

The band performed two songs on Later...with Jools Holland during May 2009^[7] and have supported Blur at Hyde Park, London. They played a popular set at Reading festival 2009 and gave away necklaces to the audience as thanks for coming to see them.

Aside from live appearances, Golden Silvers' vocalist Gwilym Gold curates a quarterly live event night named 'Bronze Club' at East London pub 'The Macbeth'.^[8] Bronze Blog is known to showcase a wide variety of musicians and DJs including Mystery Jets, The Invisible, Micachu, Esser, Everything Everything, Othello Wolf and many more. Since its inception, Bronze Club has said to have gathered a strong following, which has led attendants to dress up in relation to the Ages of Man in Greek Mythology; gold, silver and bronze.^[9]