Cover Drive

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Starburst-style or not, Cover Drive are as fresh and fun a band as you'll hear. Based in Barbados, but in the process of moving to London since being signed to Polydor here this year, the quartet blend their Caribbean sunshine-drenched musical roots with infectious pop hooks honed with A-list writer/producers such as Wayne Hector, Steve Mac, Ina Wroldsen, J.R. Rotem and Future Cut. Cover Drive's sound is brisk and bright. Aimed as much as the beach and high street as dancefloors. The band likes to refer to it as "sunshine-y, feel-good music."

Discovered last year after posting just one video on You Tube, a cover of Train's Hey Soul Sister, mere months after forming, the Bajan quartet are friends who had been making music individually. But when Amanda's manager suggested they all team up, it was then that they hit on the infectious sound they call 'Carib-pop'

"We knew each other for ages, but it never crossed our minds to start a band," says Amanda. "As soon as we did, it seemed so obvious. We're the perfect fit. I adore pop music, T-Ray likes metal, Jamar likes indie and Barry likes punk rock, but our influences and Caribbean roots meet and create a blend of edgy, feel good music that is unique to Cover Drive."

Their name may come from their homeland's love of cricket, but it was the covers the quartet posted online that instantly attracted major label attention. Dubbed The Fedora Sessions (because they wore fedoras - hat-obsessive T-Ray has a collection of 20 plus) and filmed in T-Ray's basement, their funky, Caribbean-flavoured re-workings of Hey Soul Sister, B.o.B.'s Airplanes and Ke$ha's Tik Tok first earned them an offer from Sony in the States. They were considering signing when Polydor stepped in. One showcase of four Cover Drive originals at their mentor Eddy Grant's house in Barbados later and the quartet had inked a deal and agreed to move to Britain.