We Beat The System are a five-piece

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band from

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. Formed in 2009, the group consists of Daniel Mason (kind of lead singer and 3 keys of the keyboard), Jonathan Gray (guitar), Martin Dagg (guitar), Jon Sandwith (bass guitar) and David Burlace (drums and percussion). The band has been tipped by the BBC as having a "promising future ahead of them" after winning the Best Alternative Act category in the Live and Unsigned 2010 competition at the O2 Arena in London – the United Kingdom's largest national music competition for unsigned bands. The members of ''We Beat The System'' met while attending ''Venerable Bede Church of England School'' in Sunderland and formed the band in October 2009. They have since supported

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, ''Flashguns'',

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and ''Wilder''. After winning Live and Unsigned, the band was invited to play at Sunderland's 2010 Split Festival. The band has since played at Newcastle's 2011

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and is currently recording with ''Let’s Buy Happiness'' guitarist James Hall. The sound of the band has been described as Alternative/Post-Punk Revival, similar to bands such as Editors, White Lies,

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and early U2.

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