Losers are a British band consisting of DJ

Eddy Temple-Morris Edward Owen Kayvan Temple-Morris (born 26 April 1965 in Cardiff) is a British DJ, record producer and TV presenter. He hosted London radio station XFM's specialist show ''The Remix'' for 15 years,Tom Bellamy Thomas Rhys Bellamy is a British musician. He is the multi-instrumentalist responsible for contributing guitar, bass, synthesizer, keyboards, trumpet, programming, samples, melodica, harmonica, percussion, toy piano, bowed guitar, decks, FX/bea ...

(formerly of

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), guitarist

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(formerly of Yourcodenameis:milo and

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History

Losers formed in 2007 as the remix project of Temple-Morris and Bellamy. They released their first album, "Beautiful Losers", in September 2010. The first single "Flush", featuring rappers Riz MC and

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, received coverage from the music press and the BBC. Guitarist Paul Mullen joined the band in October 2010, marking the start of a move away from dance-oriented music and towards more guitar-focused rock music. By summer 2011 drummer Mark Heron had also joined the band, and they began working on their second album "...And So We Shall Never Part". The album was released on 4 April 2014. The single "Turn Around" was used as the backing music for the trailer for the fourth season of US television series

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, while their single "Azan" was used on the intro for

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's dance competition, Street Women Fighter, Soundtrack for Royal Blood episode of

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, trailer for the film ''

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'' and the video game Far Cry 3. Lately they have been touring Europe as guests of

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. Their song "Us vs Night" was played during the first season of

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Discography

* ''Beautiful Losers'' (2010) * ''...And So We Shall Never Part'' (2014) * ''...And So We Shall Never Part Two'' (remixes) (2014) * ''How To Ruin Other People's Futures'' (2016)

References

External links

* British alternative rock groups {{UK-band-stub