New Hope Club

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New Hope Club
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New Hope Club in 2018. Left to right: George Smith, Blake Richardson, Reece Bibby.
Background information
Also known asNHC
Origin Manchester and London, England
Genres
Years active2015–present
Labels
Members
  • Reece Bibby
  • Blake Richardson
  • George Smith
Website www.newhopeclub.com

New Hope Club are a British pop trio formed in 2015, consisting of Reece Bibby, Blake Richardson, and George Smith. Their debut EP, Welcome to the Club, was released through Steady Records/Hollywood Records on 5 May 2017; the band released their self-titled debut album in February 2020, which peaked at number five on the UK Album Charts.

Contents

History

George Smith and Blake Richardson formed New Hope Club in October 2015. [1] As a member of the boy band Stereo Kicks, [2] Reece Bibby appeared on the eleventh season of The X Factor in the UK in 2014, finishing fifth.[ citation needed ] Stereo Kicks broke up in July 2015 after failing to land a record deal; [3] [ non-primary source needed ] in November 2015, Bibby joined New Hope Club. [4] [5] Bibby, Smith, and Richardson are all originally from Northern England. [6] [7] New Hope Club's first recording was a cover of "Wake Up" by The Vamps in October 2015. [8] In December 2015, The Vamps signed the band to their label Steady Records, a subsidiary of Virgin EMI Records. [2] They were the second band signed to the label, after The Tide. [2]

The band have supported The Vamps on three of their UK/Europe tours (2017, 2018, 2019) and performed a song each night ('Cecilia') on the Wake Up Tour (2016). They also accompanied The Vamps on their 2018 USA tour

New Hope Club's debut 4-song EP Welcome to the Club was released on Hollywood Records via Steady Records on 5 May 2017. [7] [9] The video for "Perfume" was released in January 2017, and the video for "Fixed" was released with their EP. [9] The band spent 10 weeks on the Billboard Next Big Sound chart, peaking at number 5 on 16 September 2017. [10] At the 2017 Teen Choice Awards, they were nominated for Choice Next Big Thing. [11]

The band released the fourth and final music video of their EP, for the song "Water", on 6 October 2017.

A Christmas song called "Whoever He Is" was released along with a video on 1 December 2017.

The band played their first ever headlining shows [12] at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, in London, on the 1st and 2 June 2018. These shows were sold out and supported by acts such as Max & Harvey and RoadTrip. In early 2018, they released the music video for their single "Start Over Again" and two songs from the “Early Man” movie soundtrack ("Good Day" and "Tiger Feet”). In the summer of the same year, they also released the music video for their song, "Medicine." This was their fastest music video to reach 1 million views on YouTube. In October 2018, they released their second EP Welcome to the Club Pt. 2.

They released the single "Permission" on 1 February 2019, [13] and the single "Love Again" on 3 May 2019. [14]

In June 2022, they released the "Getting Better" and "Girl Who Does Both" multi-track single. [15]

Blake Richardson made his onscreen debut as Paul McCartney in Midas Man , a feature film about The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein. [16] [17]

Touring

New Hope Club opened for The Vamps on their 2016 UK tour, [2] and for their tour of the UK and Ireland in the spring of 2017. [18] They regularly performed "Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)" with The Vamps during that tour. [1] They also opened for Tini Stoessel on her 2017 Got Me Started Tour in Germany. [19] They have also opened for Sabrina Carpenter on her North American summer 2017 De-Tour, [20] and opened yet again for The Vamps on their autumn 2017 tour in Australia. [21] In August 2017, they performed at Arthur Ashe Kids' Day at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City. [22] In the beginning of 2019 they did a special mini tour in Europe, doing shows in Paris, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Cologne. They embarked on their first ever world tour, the Love Again Tour, on 8 June 2019 in Manila, Philippines at the New Frontier Theater, continuing to Bangkok, Thailand and Seoul, South Korea. In the summer of 2019 they did shows in the US, and the tour visited a few countries in Europe as well. In the autumn of 2019 the tour visited the UK and Ireland. [14] In 2022, they embarked on their Getting Better Tour, beginning on 29 May with acoustic dates in the U.K., and then fully electric dates in the U.S. beginning on 12 July. They will also play dates in Europe, Southeast Asia and Latin America. [23]

Members

Discography

Studio albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart positionsSales
UK
[24] 		IRE
[25] 		KOR
[26]
New Hope Club 5743

Extended plays

TitleNotes
Welcome to the Club
Welcome to the Club Pt. 2
  • Release date: 30 October 2018
  • Label: Steady/Hollywood
  • Format: Digital download
Summer Showers with Reece
  • Release date: 12 August 2021
  • Label: UMG
  • Format: Digital download

Singles

TitleYearAlbum
"Perfume"2017Welcome to the Club EP
"Make Up"Non-album single
"Fixed"Welcome to the Club EP
"Water"
"Fixed" (Brad Simpson Remix)Welcome to the Club EP (Asia Special Edition)
"Whoever He Is"
"Good Day" [28] 2018 Early Man: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
"Tiger Feet" [29]
"Start Over Again"Non-album single
"Medicine"New Hope Club
"Crazy"
"Karma"2018
"Let Me Down Slow - Live at the O2"
"Permission"2019
"Love Again"
"Somebody That You Loved"Non-album singles
"Paycheck"
"Know Me Too Well"
(with Danna Paola)		New Hope Club
"Let Me Down Slow" [30]
(with R3hab)		2020
"Worse"Non-album singles
"Getting Better"2022
"Girl Who Does Both"
"Call Me A Quitter"
"Whatever"
"L.U.S.H."
"Walk It Out"

Music videos

TitleYearDirector(s)Ref.
"Perfume"2017Dean Sherwood [31]
"Make Up" [32]
"Fixed"Ed Rigg [33]
"Water"Dean Sherwood [34]
"Fixed (Brad Simpson) Remix"Joshua Tanner [35]
"Whoever He Is (Christmas Song)"Dean Sherwood [36]
"Good Day"2018 [37]
"Tiger Feet" (lyric video)Chris Philips [38]
"Tiger Feet"Dean Sherwood [39]
"Start Over Again" [40]
"Medicine" [41]
"Crazy" [42]
"Permission"2019 [43]
"Love Again" [44]
"Know Me Too Well" [45]
"Let Me Down Slow"2020 [46]
"Let Me Down Slow (Acoustic)" [47]
"Girl Who Does Both"2022Joshua Fairbrother [48]
"Getting Better"Roscoe [49]
"Getting Better" (Alternate Version) [50]
"Call Me A Quitter"Carrick Moore Geretty [51]
"Whatever"Joshua Tanner [52]

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