L.Stadt is one of the most interesting Eastern European rock groups around today. They‘re loved by even the snobbiest of Western critics and considered to be ambassadors of music in Poland. The members of the band met in Strasbourg in 2003. Raised under the influence of Western music, these young men decided that you “can’t be a prophet in your own back yard”, so they started out performing beyond the borders of Poland. The works of L.Stadt were hungrily eaten up by fussy Western music fans and critics, and the young men were compared to The White Stripes, The Strokes, Blur, and other bands which have a reserved spot in the rock Olympics. L.Stadt harmoniously fuses modern rock with old school. Their songs feature powerful electric guitar, the energetically pulsating rhythms of two drummers, and the vocals of Lukasz Lach, which seem to float straight out of scratched vinyl records of The Velvet Underground. L.Stadt is deservingly called the forerunner of rock music in Poland and has scooped up a multitude of awards at home and abroad within a span of a few years. After releasing its debut album in 2008, the quartet was recognised as the country‘s best rock band and the band‘s hit single, Londyn, won song of the year at Poland‘s prestigious ESKA Music Awards. After debut L.Stadt have played over 130 club and outdoor shows in Poland and abroad, including Lithuania, Germany, England, Croatia and Serbia. On 4 July 2008, L.Stadt opened the Tent Stage at Poland’s largest festival, OPEN’ER, and in September, they rocked the Young Talent stage at the PKOBP LONDON LIVE festival at Wembley Arena in London. On 13 June 2009 they played at biggest Lithuanian Festival Be2gether and 28th of August they performed on ViertelFest in Bremen. Currently, band is busy working on their follow-up album, which is slated for release in the spring of 2010.
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