We Were Promised Jetpacks have gone on to much bigger things since playing the fourth ever Limbo night back in December 2007. Here’s how their biog read on the Limbo site back then:
Fresh off the starting blocks, the Jetpacks have already turned a few heads, following select shows in Glasgow and Edinburgh and an appearance in ECA’s Art School Dance documentary.
“We met at school and all got together to make songs when we were about 17 and we are now about 20. We all went to Uni once school was finished with Adam, Michael and Sean moving to Glasgow to attend Glasgow Uni and Darren went to Stirling Uni. Just been playing gigs regularly and trying to write songs that we like more than the last ones we wrote and we hope to play in other cities and towns. We loved playing at The 13th Note with Frightened Rabbit in August cause we well fancy them and also enjoyed an Oxjam gig at Nice ‘n’ Sleazy’s with Isosceles in October.”
“We Were Promised Jetpacks are astonishingly good… Quiet Little Voices for example (is) a frenzy of instruments… really exciting and springy, slightly mad vocals and all the joy of people possessed by a moment and barely able to contain the emotions in a few minutes of a pop tune.” (The 13th Note)
“The phrase ‘guitar band’ covers a multitude of sinners in the pop battleground. We Were Promised Jetpacks, apart from having the best name in showbiz, meet all other requirements necessary to lift them above their peers. Their live sets rip along at breakneck pace but somehow deliver a mini-anthem in every tune, merging Postcard and C86 jangle with full-on alt.rock.” (The List)
