Easy Life Tickets

Get acquainted with the alternative R&B of Easy Life

Easy Life is the band that has been at the forefront of putting alternative R&B on the map. Which might beg the question as to what exactly that is. Think of 80s Manchester alt-funk maestros A Certain Ratio and you'll have a start. Take it down a notch into a lazy dance beat a la Jamiroquai, and you're almost there. Add the introspective, ironic grittiness of a band like The Eels with explicit lyrics in a cockney accent and you'll pretty much have the package that you'll experience when you buy or sell Easy Life tickets on StubHub.

Four funky singles and a Jools Holland live appearance

Easy Life came out of Leicester in 2017 and soon found themselves signed to the influential Island Records on the back of a moderately successful debut single, "Pockets", penned by their frontman and main songwriter, Murray Matravers. They opted not to go with a full album release at first, taking a trick from the hip hop scene and releasing a mixtape instead of the more traditional indie EP. This release, "Creature Habits", led to an appearance on the Jools Holland Show, after their first two single releases, "Nightmares" and "Frank (July 2017)" had nudged the bottom reaches of the indie charts. This brought the young band to the end of 2018, which they finished off with a fourth single release entitled "Temporary Love Part 1". To cap off a relatively successful first two years in the industry, they were placed sixth in the 2019 Prospect Music Awards and confirmed a performance at the prestigious South By Southwest Festival in the USA, nicely setting the tone for a bigger year to come. If you've charted their progress from the start, you'll be pleased as punch to know that you can now get your Easy Life tickets right here.

Infectious, angular working class rap

The hugely infectious funk rap of Easy Life marries relatively subtle dance rhythms (for a funk band, that is) with very in-your-face lyrics. It’s a style reminiscent perhaps of Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine in their wry, no-holds-barred observations about everyday working class life in Britain, albeit a great deal less emphatic in their tone of delivery. It's what makes their music so powerful: the marriage of hardcore lyrics with much gentler music. It's the same trick that Inspiral Carpets used on their 90s smash hit, "This Is How It Feels". They've been compared quite often to acts like Rex Orange County, and, by the same token, if you're familiar with the work of Chance The Rapper you'll have a good handle on this lot too. Add in the angularity and arch social commentary of Arctic Monkeys and you'll find yourself smack bang in the wonderful musical territory on offer with Easy Life tickets on StubHub.