Line-up and Artists: Four Day Hombre

Four Day Hombre play the Unsigned Stage in Leeds. Go to line-up &amp artists section to find out who else is on.

Four Day Hombre was formed in the minds of a couple of Lancaster University students. They recruited some band members, wrote some songs, moved to Leeds, rented a house and over three months converted their own cellar into a rehearsal room. All before they actually played a note.

The only way to make a live band great is to play live. A lot. So they hit the road, paying their dues, playing in any grubby venue nationally that would have them. Their first demo was played by Lamacq, their second was playlisted on Radio One. Turning their backs on the London-centric record industry, FDH chose instead to release music on their own terms through their own label, Alamo Music. The unique twist is the label is fan-funded: fans came forward raising the same amount of money as an Indie deal would have given the band but without the usual dreadful, exploitative terms that come with it. Instead, FDH are in the enviable position of owning their own label with a comparable or better release budget to many other indies. Their debut album Experiments In Living was released in February 2006.