The Little Flames

Greg formed The Little Flames, playing drums, with Eva Petersen (Vocals), Miles Kane (Guitar), Joe Edwards (Bass) and Mat Gregory (Guitar) in December 2004. The band went on to be vaguely successful, achieving comparisons to The Coral

The Coral

The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The band first emerged during the early 2000s and found success with their debut album The Coral and follow up Magic and Medicine...

 and high profile fans such as the Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys are an English indie rock band. Formed in 2002 in High Green, a suburb of Sheffield, the band currently consists of Alex Turner , Jamie Cook , Nick O'Malley and Matt Helders...

. They also went on to tour with bands like The Coral, The Zutons

The Zutons

The Zutons are an English indie rock band from Liverpool. They were formed in 2001 but did not release their first album, Who Killed...... The Zutons?, until May 2004. They achieved their biggest hits with "Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?" and "Valerie", both taken from their second studio album...

, The Dead 60s

The Dead 60s

The Dead 60s were an English ska punk band from Liverpool. The band's sound is a mixture of punk rock, ska, dub and reggae. They have taken influences from artists such as King Tubby, Jackie Mittoo, Gang of Four and A Certain Ratio.-Band members:...

 and Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys are an English indie rock band. Formed in 2002 in High Green, a suburb of Sheffield, the band currently consists of Alex Turner , Jamie Cook , Nick O'Malley and Matt Helders...

. However, the band decided to go their separate ways following a dispute with their label over their musical direction.

The Rascals

Three of the existing Little Flames members, decided to take a new direction, taking up the initiative from the Little Flames. With Kane

Miles Kane

Miles Peter Kane is an English musician originally from Meols on the Wirral near Liverpool, best known as the co-frontman of The Last Shadow Puppets and former frontman of The Rascals...

 on vocals and lead guitar, Mighall on drums

Drum kit

A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

 and Joe Edwards

Joe Edwards (singer/bass player)

- The Little Flames :Joe formed The Little Flames, playing bass, with Eva Petersen , Miles Kane , Greg Mighall and Mat Gregory in December 2004. The band went on to be vaguely successful, achieving comparisons to The Coral and high profile fans such as the Arctic Monkeys...

 on bass guitar

Bass guitar

The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 and occasional backing vocals

Backing vocalist

A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

, they formed The Rascals

The Rascals (English band)

The Rascals were an indie rock band from the Hoylake, England. Consisting of Joe Edwards and Greg Mighall .Both members were previous members of now-defunct indie band The Little Flames....

. Kane has taken the main songwriting duties for the band. The band who had known each other from childhood, continued where The Little Flames had left off, still signed with Deltasonic Records, only with less members this time. They were adamant to keep their own distinct sound of 'beautiful pop melodies' with a 'psychadelic quirk' and a 'compelling and unique dark underlying spirit'¹. They released their debut EP in December 2007, just 7 months after they got together. Entitled Out of Dreams it featured 4 tracks, but did not achieve chart success. Yet they soon became tipped to be one of the bands of 2008, championed in particular by NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

, following a well received support slot on Arctic Monkeys' 2007 tour. Their first album Rascalize

Rascalize

-Personnel:*Miles Kane – vocals, guitar*Greg Mighall – drums*Joe Edwards – bass*Ben Hillier – producer-Statistics:...

was released on 23 June 2008. The Rascals have a small role in the upcoming film Awaydays

Awaydays

Awaydays is a 2009 British film directed by Pat Holden and stars Stephen Graham. It is based on the novel of the same name by Kevin Sampson, originally published eleven years previously in 1998....

playing an Echo & the Bunnymen

Echo & the Bunnymen

Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk band, formed in Liverpool in 1978. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Ian McCulloch, guitarist Will Sergeant and bass player Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine. By 1980, Pete de Freitas had joined as the band's drummer, and their debut...

cover, Miles has several lines such as "Sorry, I have to help the guys with the gear..." The band are managed by Greg's brother, Jay Mighall.