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Her's were an indie rock band from Liverpool, England, composed of Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading. The band's debut full-length LP Invitation to Her's was released in August 2018, following the compilation LP Songs of Her's which had been released in May 2017.

Her's
Her's at Great Escape 2018 in Brighton (Audun Laading nearer to camera)
Background information
Origin	Liverpool, England
Genres	Indie rock indie pop dream pop alternative rock
Years active	2015 (2015)–2019 (2019)
Labels	Heist or Hit
Past members	Stephen Fitzpatrick Audun Laading
Website	thatbandofhers.com

The duo were killed in the early hours of 27 March 2019 in a road traffic collision in Arizona, while on tour in the United States.[1]

Members

The band's line-up consisted of Stephen Fitzpatrick, from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, who sang lead vocals and played guitar, and Audun Laading, from Flekkerøy, Kristiansand, Norway, who played bass guitar and sang backing vocals.[2] Fitzpatrick was also a drummer,[3] but the band used a drum machine, which both members contributed to the programming of.[4][5][6]

Career

Fitzpatrick and Laading met at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts,[2] (from which they both graduated in 2016 after three-year music degrees, being presented with their certificates by Paul McCartney at a graduation ceremony).[7][8] Whilst still students they formed Her's in 2015, after having previously played together in the rhythm section of another Liverpool band named 'The Sundogs'.[9][10] The duo initially formed Her's in jest, travelling around Liverpool filming comedic music videos and posting them on YouTube.[11]

They released their debut single, "Dorothy", on 7 April 2016.[12] They performed on the 2016 Green Man Festival Rising Stage.[3] A nine-track compilation titled Songs of Her's was released on 12 May 2017.[13] The compilation received four stars from The Skinny.[4] Writing for NME in April 2017, Thomas Smith said:[14]

Her's are not a group to stand still. Each song they produce, from the lo-fi bedroom pop power of debut track to 'Dorothy' to the duo's equally melodic take on slacker-rock on 'Marcel', sees the Liverpool-based duo shift and float between sounds. Never really fitting into one genre, but somehow nailing whatever they end up doing.

The band later released their debut full-length album, Invitation to Her's, on Heist or Hit Records[14] on 24 August 2018.[15][16][17] Her's were featured on Paste's list titled "The 15 New Liverpool Bands You Need to Know in 2018".[18] An acoustic performance by the band at the 2019 South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, US was also featured on BBC Music Introducing.[7]

Deaths

On 27 March 2019, around 1 a.m., Fitzpatrick (age 24) and Laading (25) along with their tour manager, Trevor Engelbrektson (37) from Minneapolis, were killed in a head-on traffic collision and subsequent vehicle fire near Milepost 68 on Interstate 10, west of Tonopah, Arizona.[19][20][21][22] They were travelling from Phoenix, Arizona, where they had played at The Rebel Lounge[23] on 26 March, to perform a show on the following evening in Santa Ana, California, some 350 miles (560 km) away, as part of a 19-date second tour of North America.[7][21] The Arizona Department of Public Safety confirmed that Engelbrektson had been driving the band's Ford tour van at the time of the crash.[21][24] The driver of a Nissan pick-up truck, Francisco Rebollar, aged 64, from Murrieta, California, was also killed in the collision; a subsequent police investigation of the scene located a bottle of alcohol in the wreckage.[25][21] At the time of the crash, the Arizona Department of Public Safety was already responding to reports of the Nissan pick-up truck travelling at speed in the wrong direction going eastbound on the westbound carriageway.[22][26]

A requiem mass for Fitzpatrick was held at St. Mary's (Roman Catholic) Church, Barrow-in-Furness, on 23 April 2019, followed by a burial at Barrow-in-Furness cemetery.[27]

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

Title	Details
Invitation to Her's	Released: 24 August 2018[10] Label: Heist or Hit Formats: CD, digital download, vinyl

Compilation albums

Title	Details
Songs of Her's	Released: 12 May 2017[10] Label: Heist or Hit Formats: CD, digital download, vinyl

Singles

Title	Year	Album
"Dorothy/What Once Was"[28]	2016	Songs of Her's
"Marcel"[9]
"Speed Racer"[9]	2017
"I'll Try"[9]
"Loving You" (Minnie Riperton cover)[3]		Non-album single
"Love on the Line (Call Now)"[29]	2018	Invitation to Her's
"Low Beam"[3]
"Harvey"[3]
"Under Wraps"[3]

Music videos

Year	Title	Director
2017	"Speed Racer"	Samuel O'Brien[30]
2018	"Under Wraps"	Jorge A. Ramos[31]
2019	"Harvey"	James Embrey[32]
	"She Needs Him"	Sébastien Séjourné[33]
2020	"Marcel"	Camille Laading[34]

References

External links

• Official website
• Her's tour dates at Songkick

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[de] Her’s

Her’s war eine englische Indie Band aus Liverpool bestehend aus Stephen Fitzpatrick (Gesang und Gitarre) und Audun Laading (Bass und Begleitgesang). Ihr erstes Album wurde im August 2018 veröffentlicht.

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[es] Her's

Her's fue una banda británica de rock de Liverpool, Inglaterra, compuesta por Stephen Fitzpatrick en voz y guitarra y Audun Laading en bajo y coros. Su primer álbum de larga duración fue lanzado en agosto de 2018.

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