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8 reasons Lawson may be the next big boy band

Lawson meets Manila fans

Recent Manila visitors Lawson are being billed as the next boy band to watch, after the success of One Direction and The Wanted.

Will they?

Let us count the possible ways.

1. They’ve collected four hit singles laden with the crisp harmonies and massive hooks of boy band forerunners Backstreet Boys, Take That and Nsync.

2. They are followed by girls, hordes of them screaming, everywhere they go.

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3. The band's single “When She Was Mine” became the most-viewed song on YouTube in a week. Andy Brown on acoustic guitar and lead vocals, bassist Ryan Fletcher, lead guitarist Joel Peat and Adam Pitts on drums certainly made a good first impression.

4. The song is engineered to send fans swooning: a bittersweet love song about the parting of ways between singer Andy and Mollie King, vocalist of UK girl
group The Saturdays.

5. Their debut album “Chapman Square” hints at something more: stories of conflicts of the heart written by chief lyricist and singer Andy Brown with the rest of the group supplies snatches of sounds untypical of a boy band. Adam Pitts’ drum work sets the main beat for a trip across the pop-rock road map. Beginning with the country-rock lope of album opener, “Standing In The Dark”, the band ably moves to the new wave-ish dance pop of “Learn To Love Again” to the energetic pace of “Taking Me Over” and to the guitar-driven finish of “The Girl Knew.”

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6. There's a snapshot of Lawson in full rocking mode on the extra tracks found in the album's deluxe edition. The guitars, bass and drums sizzle in the opening tracks and Andy hits all the emotional buttons in his tender reading of “Red Sky.”

7. There’s an interesting back story to the why the band chose their name. Lawson also happened to be the surgeon who performed a delicate operation on Andy, then 19, to remove a brain tumor. Still, says Andy, ““We are having fun, life is great and what I went through makes me appreciate it so much more. To go from a life threatening illness to dominating the charts it’s just amazing.”

8. Nothing is more compelling than triumph over adversity—especially when set to rousing music from musical brothers in arms.