Described by BBC Music as “amazingly talented” and by Joyzine as “the shimmer you get from heat haze on a summer’s day,” Coventry’s Project Overload are Emily (vocals), Joe (drums), Callum (bass) and brothers Tom and Lucas (guitars). The band met on the Live on Stage project at the Tin Music and Arts, and gig regularly in Coventry, Birmingham and across the Midlands.
In 2024 they released their debut album New Beginnings, picked up 25,000 Spotify streams for lead single Second Chances, won the Alternative category of Godiva Calling, were invited to play at Lakefest and were named Best New Local Artist by the Coventry Observer.
Their “bright janglepop with sharp elbows” has been compared to the Primitives, Young Marble Giants, Lande Hekt and Blondie, but the band take their influences from Beach Bunny, Declan McKenna, Jamie T, Peach Fuzz, Slowdive, The 1975, Two Door Cinema Club and Whirr.
Highlights so far this year include appearing at the Leicesterval Indiepop Weekender, playing at Just Dropped In on Record Store Day, getting rave reviews and international radio play for the “near-perfect slice of indie-pop” Silhouettes, returning to the studio to record their second album with Mason Le Long, and finishing their exams.
Their new single Wildfire, released the week before Godiva, is taken from album two which is due out later in the year.