The Horrors are a British Garage Rock and Shoegaze band who formed in mid-2005. They released their debut album Strange House, which reached number 37 on the UK Albums Chart, in 2007. Their second album Primary Colours was released in 2009 and reached number 25 in the UK.

Formed by ace faces of the East London and Southend-on-sea angular scene in 2006, The Horrors have released six singles and two albums for Loog and an EP in the US. They have already been on the front cover of NME, despite their singles being so limited that they are already considered collectors’ items.

After releasing several singles they released their debut album ‘Strange House’ in 2007. Strange House is primarily a Garage Rock album with elements of Horror Punk, and the album contains several of the Horrors previous singles,They made a number of festival appearances throughout 2007 to support the album, including appearances at the Glastonbury Festival, Reading and Leeds Festivals, various Scandinavian festivals, the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan, and Splendour in the Grass in Australia. They also supported the Arctic Monkeys. The Horrors began working on the follow up to Strange House. The result was 2009’s Primary Colours which marked a major change of direction away from Garage Rock to Shoegaze and Post-Punk, The album was met with critical acclaim and was announced as one of the twelve albums shortlisted for the year’s Mercury Prize award and it named the best album of the 2009 by NME. The Horrors took to the road to support album including slots at Reading and Leeds, Glastonbury, Hurricane Festival, T in the Park, Underage Festival and many others. In addition to this the band opened for The Kills, Nine Inch Nails, Placebo and played a string of headline dates across America and Europe. The Horrors have recently finished an Australian Tour and plan to head into the Studio to begin writing new material.

Band members

* Faris Badwan; born Faris Adam Derar Badwan – vocals
* Joshua Third, a.k.a. Von Grimm; born Joshua Mark Hayward – guitar
* Tomethy Furse, born Tom Furse Fairfax Cowan – bass (on Strange House), synthesizer (on Primary Colours)
* Spider Webb, born Rhys Timothy Somerset Webb – keyboards (on Strange House), bass (on Primary Colours)
* Coffin Joe, born Joseph Patrick Spurgeon – drums

Temporary band members

* Freddie Cowan (Tom's brother and guitarist with The Daze) – guitar, replacing Joshua Third for several gigs when he was taking his exams.