Hooton Tennis Club

Hooton Tennis Club are Liverpool music’s fairytale success story of the year – from Edge Hill University to Heavenly Recordings in the space of six months.

Here’s the tale: four lads from the Wirral are snapped up by The Farm's bass player Carl Hunter who signs them to his non-contractual DIY record label at Edge Hill in Ormskirk.

Hooton's rough demos are honed in Parr Street, they later play at intimate gig in the Kazimier Garden during Sound City, where watching in the crowd is Heavenly boss Jeff Barrett who snaps them up.

Several gigs later and they’re tipped by the cream of the national music industry.

Game, set and match – with new single Jasper release later this month, 2015 promises to be an ace year for Hooton Tennis Club. 

Follow them on Twitter, they’re fun. And know how to make fish pie. 

We caught up Ryan Murphy, James Madden, Callum McFadden and Harry Chalmers ahead of their single launch at the Shipping Forecast on February 20 to talk cycling around Sefton Park, Hammer Horror and slacker sounds.