Name: English Teacher
Start: 2025-09-17T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Lost Lake

Lost Lake Presents English Teacher on Wednesday, September 17 --
Doors: 7:00 PM
Advance: $20.00, Day of Show: $25.00

“We’ve not stopped for almost a decade. It’s been brilliant and exhausting in equal parts,” English Teacher vocalist, guitarist and synth player Lily Fontaine laughs, reflecting on the band’s ascent over the last five years.
The band - Fontaine, Lewis Whiting (lead guitar, synth), Douglas Frost (drums, piano and vocals) andNicholas Eden (bass) – began writing together after meeting while students at Leeds Conservatoire. Earlysupport from local organisations Music Leeds, Come Play With Me and BBC Radio Introducing, whoregularly played their earliest offerings and helped garner support for the band, led to a pivotal signingwith indie label Nice Swan Records. During lockdown, English Teacher’s fanbase grew online and 2021single ‘RB’ had the music industry buzzing. A much-lauded debut EP, ‘Polyawkward’ followed, providingfurther insight into the diverse sonic and uniquely self-made aesthetic world of the band, and appearancesat Glastonbury and Leeds Festival soon made English Teacher one of the most talked about bands in Britishmusic.
Since then, they’ve toured with Parquet Courts and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, played on Jools Holland, and sold out all their UK and EU tour dates as well as Elsewhere in Brooklyn, New York City. They’ve graced the cover of the magazine they used to spend their pocket money on as teens, NME, had single ‘Nearly Daffodils’ placed at number 7 in the top ten songs of 2023 by TIME Magazine, and more recently acted as ambassadors for Independent Venue Week (following in the footsteps of Arlo Parks, Wet Leg, Wolf Alice and Beabadoobee), in a nod to the grassroots venues where they learned their crafts.
Now, they’re about to release their debut album, This Could Be Texas. Representative of the four songwriters’ sonic journeys to date, some tracks were written at university in 2016-2019’s post-nestfleeingnostalgia, while others found themselves whole in the weeks before entering the studio. Listening to This Could Be Texas, it’s evident the band have spent a long time crafting the album, with its intricately layered and meticulously crafted melodies that explore far-ranging themes including social issues ,struggling to belong, mental health and science fiction. As NME wrote in the band’s recent first cover article for the publication, their new music is a “bold, rhythmic, revamp,” drawing on influences as varied as “psychedelia to wobbly art punk.”
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