With Loaded Guns

To put it simply, the difference between This City and other melodic post-hardcore bands is this – you can dance to This City. It is truly the thing that sets this group apart from the other bands operating in this realm, the thing that opens up a world of possibilities for their music.

'Obviously melodic post-hardcore is a big part of what we do,' says Grant Coleman, the band's lead guitarist. 'But there's more to it than that. We're not just a run of the mill MPH (for short) group. I would say that the thing that sets us apart is our beats. It's possible for some bands in our genre to sound a bit similar to one another. But we definitely try not to fall into that trap.'

It all began not with music but with tattoos. In 2006 two strangers met on a train on the way to a tattoo convention in London's Brick Lane. These two people were Chris Purr and Arran Day. Brought together by a mutual friend who had also tattooed them both, on the journey north from their hometown of Brighton Chris and Arran began talking about music. They discovered they had a lot of common ground.

Within a couple of months they were in a band together, and soon enough that band became known as ThisCity. Chris Purr is on vocal duty and Arran plays guitar; the group's line-up was completed with the addition of Grant Coleman, bass player George Travis and drummer Nick Burdett. Between them, the group, This City, have a slew of original sounding songs as well as a small mortgage worth of tattoos. 'We are quite literally a very colourful bunch,' says Chris Purr.