Nick O’Malley

O’Malley was drafted in as a temporary replacement for bassist Andy Nicholson when the latter announced he would not make the band’s North America tour in May 2006,[2] while working at Asda.[3] O’Malley says that he learned the whole of the band’s debut album in two days of intensive play where he “pretty much didn’t even leave the house”.[4] His first recordings with the band were on their non-album single “Leave Before the Lights Come On”, in which he played bass guitar.

His first appearance with the band came on 25 May, when the band played a secret gig at the Old Blue Last pub in east London.[2] The 120 capacity venue was seen as an opportunity for O’Malley to have a test run before the band’s first North American gig in Vancouver on 27 May and festival dates in front of fifteen to twenty thousand people