Swiss Lips are a five-piece dance/electro-pop band from Manchester. Musical career The band describe their sound as heavily influenced by the Manchester music scene. "Finding the middle ground between guitar music and dance music has been something Manchester has always been good at, and we hope to carry on that tradition." They draw inspiration from a wide ranging array of artists "...we take influences from all kinds of music. At the moment we are listening to Prince, Justice, Def Leppard, M83, The Beach Boys, Joe Goddard." . Getting Signed Swiss Lips signed a four album deal with Sony Epic at the end of 2011. As a new band they were asked how it felt to be signed to a major record label. The band were able to point out that whilst Swiss Lips are a new band, they themselves are not novices to the music industry. "We are a new band but have all been playing in different bands for as long as we can remember so it doesn't seem like an overnight thing. It's feels amazing to have the support and belief of a team like Epic behind what we are doing and being Michael Jackson's label mates is something to brag to girls about." 2012 Shortly after getting signed to Sony, in March 2012, Swiss Lips became the act, where their debut track 'U Got The Power' was played every day on Radio 1 for a week. The video for, their debut track, 'U Got The Power' has had over 56,000 plays since it was uploaded to YouTube at the end of 2011. There are two more tracks available online, ‘Danz’ and ‘Grow’ which can be found on the bands SoundCloud page. They are set to play Camden Crawl, The Great Escape and Dot to Dot Festival, Lovebox and Live at Leeds in Summer 2012. <references />
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