Sweet Sweet Lies

Sweet Sweet Lies combine urgent electrocoustic instrumental with witty, ironic and bittersweet vocals. They are a rock band at heart but are strongly influenced by blackhearted Country and Brighton's retro rockabilly sensibility. They are not skifflecore.  Graduates of BIMM, they have now transcended those roots but maintain links with the school and are a source of pride for current students.

The Independent - Album review Feb 2012

"Vengeance is an art form, Sweet Sweet Lies – a bittersweet Brightonian sextet who specialise in folk-pop noir – are masters of it.  That much, on songs such as "Capital of Iceland", is obvious. But dual frontmen Dominic Arnall and Michael Hayes also have a mile-wide romantic streak. This is a band for fans of Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker and Nick Cave who wondered where their next great love was coming from. In The Hare, the Hound & the Tortoise, it's already here."