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Chart Toppers

The rise of Teddies’ homegrown bands continues apace! Low Island released their highly anticipated debut album If You Could Have It All Again in April. The band, a quartet with three OSE members, produce music which has been described as ‘rippling electronic pop’ by The Times and count

Island’s own label, Emotional Interference, was produced and engineered by the band at their makeshift studio in rural France and reached #2 in the iTunes UK album charts and #17 in the UK album sales chart, with songs riffing on light and shade, romance and loss and youthful nostalgia. The band will be touring the UK in September, playing venues in London, Bristol, Brighton,

Radiohead’s Phil Selway as a fan. The album, which was released on Low

Manchester and Oxford. Glass Animals, another Teddies band, crafted their early songs in the

newly-built Martyrs Pavilion back in 2010.

They released their third album, Dreamland, in 2020. The album entered the UK Album Charts at #2 and Heat Waves was placed first

on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2020 and reached number one on the Australian ARIA singles chart. They will be touring the UK in November.

Low Island recording a video in The North Wall in April. Jamie Jay, Carlos Posada and Felix Higginbottom, all OSE, are pictured with fellow band member Jacob Lively and video director Ben Ogunbiyi. Right: Low Island - If You Could Have It All Again

More Screen Success

Pippa Bennett-Warner OSE (pictured second from right with her co-stars Poppy Gilbert, Billy Howle, Erin Doherty and Jack Farthing) will play the role of Livia in Chloe , a psychological thriller exploring obsession, deceit, identity and grief. The production, filmed in Bristol over the summer, is the creation of Alice Seabright (Sex Education) and will be streamed on BBC One and Amazon Prime later in the year. Pippa has also just been cast alongside Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell and David Oyelowo in a yet-to-be-titled murder mystery film directed by Tom George which explores the sordid underbelly of London’s Theatreland in the 1950s.