Stagecoach

Stagecoach is a United Kingdom indie pop group active since 2008. The band makes what it describes as junk-pop songs, with lyrics and themes that include pizzas, chess leagues and Buffy. Its tracks appear on television and film, and it tours and plays festivals across the UK.

Broadcasts, television and film

Huw Stephens plays the single Map To The Freezer on his BBC Radio 1 shows and later invites the band to perform on the BBC Introducing stage at Reading & Leeds 2010, also naming Stagecoach one of his BBC Introducing acts of the year. The band records a live Radio 1 session at Maida Vale. Stagecoach also appears on BBC One’s Gavin and Stacey Christmas and New Year specials, and Channel 4 uses the group on season 2 of Skins. Two of its tracks feature on the international trailer for Killing Bono.

Live activity and releases

Stagecoach tours with Johnny Foreigner and Twin Atlantic. Its AA single Tony Hawk/Jonah Lomu is produced by James Kenosha, who also works with Pulled Apart By Horses and Dinosaur Pile-Up, and it is released through This Is Fake DIY. The band also appears at festivals including The Great Escape, Dot To Dot, 2000 Trees and Kendal Calling.

Other use of the name

The name Stagecoach is also used by a separate pop band formed by KK Downing with his second cousin Brian Badhams on bass and drummer Martin Philips.