Jungle (band)

Jungle were founded in 2013 by Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland, who had been friends since they were nine years old and lived next door to each other in Shepherd's Bush, London.{{cite web |url=http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/music/6606/everything-you-need-to-know-about-jungle/ |title=Everything You Need To Know About Britain's Hottest Band |publisher=Esquire |date=2 July 2014 |access-date=9 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151227180601/http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/music/6606/everything-you-need-to-know-about-jungle/ |archive-date=27 December 2015 |url-status=dead }} They were both educated at the Latymer Upper School in London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/mercury-prizenominated-duo-jungle-hid-public-school-education-9725925.html|title=Mercury Prize-nominated duo Jungle hid public school education|first=Anna|last=Dubuis|date=11 September 2014|website=Evening Standard|access-date=28 June 2024|archive-date=28 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240628233609/https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/mercury-prizenominated-duo-jungle-hid-public-school-education-9725925.html|url-status=live}} Originally the pair were part of the short-lived indie band Born Blonde, which released one album in 2012.{{Cite magazine |last=Newman |first=Jason |date=15 July 2014 |title=Jungle: From Viral Stars to Reluctant Frontmen |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jungle-graduate-from-viral-stars-to-reluctant-frontmen-174594/ |access-date=2 November 2023 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US |archive-date=2 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102174959/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jungle-graduate-from-viral-stars-to-reluctant-frontmen-174594/ |url-status=live }} They went on to form Jungle at the beginning of 2013, choosing to put an aesthetic emphasis on the music's surrounding artwork and videos, and not on the pair's own identity. Initially hiding their names and faces, Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland came to be known as J and T.{{Cite web |title=Jungle {{!}} TheAudioDB.com |url=https://www.theaudiodb.com/artist/132145 |access-date=2023-11-02 |website=www.theaudiodb.com |archive-date=2 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102175009/https://www.theaudiodb.com/artist/132145 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.passionweiss.com/2014/03/12/question-in-the-form-of-an-answer-an-interview-with-jungle |title=Interview With Jungle |publisher=Passion of the Weiss |date=12 March 2014 |access-date=12 March 2014 |archive-date=22 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322224820/http://passionweiss.com/2014/03/12/question-in-the-form-of-an-answer-an-interview-with-jungle/ |url-status=live }} Over the course of the following year, Jungle evolved into a collective by working with different artists across diverse disciplines. To perform the music live, Jungle expanded to a seven-piece band, fronted by J and T. The pair wished to challenge themselves, resisting the temptation to simply re-produce their music from their laptops, and instead translated their songs into a full and organic live experience. J and T have explained that Jungle stemmed from a desire for 'honesty… true connection and friendship. It's about being in a collective and collective energy… [a] team spirit.'{{cite web |url=http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2014/06/interview-jungle-on-friendship-self-censorship-and-the-mystery-that-they-never-intended/ |title=Interview Jungle |publisher=Pigeons and Planes |date=12 June 2014 |access-date=12 June 2014 |archive-date=14 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140614144242/http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2014/06/interview-jungle-on-friendship-self-censorship-and-the-mystery-that-they-never-intended/ |url-status=live }}

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Jungle released their single "The Heat" on 21 October 2013 through Chess Club Records.{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-radar/jungle-the-uks-most-mysterious-act-finally-come-out-of-the-shadows |title=Jungle – The UK's Most Mysterious Act Finally Come Out Of The Shadows |publisher=NME |date=8 October 2013 |access-date=6 January 2014 |archive-date=22 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022052940/http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-radar/jungle-the-uks-most-mysterious-act-finally-come-out-of-the-shadows |url-status=live }} In December 2013, Jungle were nominated for BBC's Sound of 2014 prize.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/ct3HSWD3sLlVTXjWwKQxlG/jungle |title=Sound of, 2014 – Jungle |publisher=BBC |date=2 December 2013 |access-date=6 January 2014 |archive-date=4 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804040902/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/ct3HSWD3sLlVTXjWwKQxlG/jungle |url-status=live }} That year, the group played at South by Southwest in Texas in March 2014.{{cite web |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/sxsw-2014-jungle-unmasked-sort-of/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 |title=SXSW 2014: Jungle Unmasked, Sort Of |publisher=ArtsBeat: NYTimes.com |date=12 March 2014 |access-date=9 July 2014 |archive-date=14 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714235804/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/sxsw-2014-jungle-unmasked-sort-of/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 |url-status=live }} On 16 June 2014, the band played on Jimmy Kimmel Live!,{{cite web|url=http://www.xlrecordings.com/news/watchtimeandbusyearninliveonjimmykimmel?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 |title=Watch Time Live On Jimmy Kimmel |publisher=XL Recordings |date=17 June 2014 |access-date=17 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110151533/http://www.xlrecordings.com/news/watchtimeandbusyearninliveonjimmykimmel?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 |archive-date=10 November 2014 }} and played Glastonbury Festival later that month.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/errnc8/acts/ahf4wh#p021j4t1 |title=BBC Glastonbury 2014, Acts, Jungle |publisher=BBC |date=27 June 2014 |access-date=9 July 2014 |archive-date=4 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804040900/https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/errnc8/acts/ahf4wh#p021j4t1 |url-status=live }}

Their debut album Jungle was released through XL Recordings on 14 July 2014. To celebrate the release, the band played a special launch party on a Peckham rooftop. The show was filmed using drones.{{cite web |url=http://junglejunglejungle.tumblr.com/post/91937074349/peckham-jungle-album-launch-thanks-to-all-who?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 |title=Peckham Album Launch |publisher=Jungle |date=17 June 2014 |access-date=17 June 2014 |archive-date=17 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217103310/http://junglejunglejungle.tumblr.com/post/91937074349/peckham-jungle-album-launch-thanks-to-all-who?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 |url-status=live }} During the launch week, the band played live sessions on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 6 Music.

During August 2014, the band performed at Reading and Leeds Festivals. During September 2014, Jungle made appearances on Le Grand Journal (Canal+), at London's Roundhouse for the iTunes Festival, where they played with Pharrell Williams, and on Later... with Jools Holland.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMRLp7rkoZI%3F_php%3Dtrue&_type=blogs&_r=0 |title=Jungle Live on Jools |publisher=bbc |date=17 September 2014 |access-date=17 September 2014 |archive-date=28 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528025710/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMRLp7rkoZI%3F_php%3Dtrue&_type=blogs&_r=0 |url-status=live }}

The debut album was shortlisted for the 2014 Mercury Prize in September 2014.{{cite web |url=http://www.mercuryprize.com/aoty/shortlist.php?Year=2014 |title=2014 Shortlist – Barclaycard Mercury Prize |publisher=Barclaycard Mercury Prize |date=10 September 2014 |access-date=16 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912223850/http://www.mercuryprize.com/aoty/shortlist.php?Year=2014 |archive-date=12 September 2014 |url-status=dead }} "Busy Earnin'" was also voted in at Number 67 in the 2014 Triple J Hottest 100 Countdown in Australia.{{Citation needed|date=December 2019}}

In early 2015, it was announced that the band would perform at the Boston Calling Music Festival in May 2015.{{cite web|last=Ollman|first=Jonah|title=Boston Calling Announces May 2015 Lineup|url=http://soundofboston.com/boston-calling-announces-may-2015-lineup/|website=Sound of Boston|date=13 January 2015|access-date=15 January 2015|archive-date=6 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206153637/http://soundofboston.com/boston-calling-announces-may-2015-lineup/|url-status=live}} On 26 June 2015, Jungle played on the Other Stage at the 2015 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. On 9 December 2017, they performed as part of the line up of Trópico, a 3-day-long music festival in Acapulco, Mexico.

Their song "Busy Earnin'" has been featured in many television shows and other media. It is present in the playlists of FIFA 15 and Forza Horizon 2. It has been featured in TV productions several times, for example, in the opening sequence and credits for the Tales from the Borderlands episode "Zer0 Sum," as a background music in a bar in the Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode "Jake and Sophia", as well as in a club scene in German television series Tatort (episode 916: "Der Wüstensohn"). Since the end of 2014, "Busy Earnin'" has been the title song of the German television series Mein bester Feind.{{Cite news|url=https://www.prosieben.de/tv/mein-bester-feind/alle-ganzen-folgen-von-mein-bester-feind|title=Mein bester Feind – Alle ganzen Folgen von Mein bester Feind|date=2 January 2015|access-date=18 October 2017|language=de|website=Prosieben.de|archive-date=19 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019055353/https://www.prosieben.de/tv/mein-bester-feind/alle-ganzen-folgen-von-mein-bester-feind|url-status=live}} It was also featured in the Superstore episode "Black Friday", as well as in the American television series House of Lies. In 2022, iTV Sport's British Touring Car Championship TV broadcasts race results and championship standing screens featured instrumental "Happy Man" and "Smile" as background audio. Their song, "Drops" was used as the end-credits track in episode 6, season 2 of the HBO series, Looking.{{Cn|date=December 2024}}

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On 8 May 2018, Jungle released two new singles, "House in L.A." and "Happy Man," on a 7-inch record and on multiple digital music platforms.

On 22 September 2018, the band played their single "Heavy, California" on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and, on 11 December 2018, the band played their single "Smile" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.{{Citation|last=Jimmy Kimmel Live|title=Jungle – Heavy, California|date=22 September 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydTGmLs8ihs|access-date=10 November 2018|archive-date=19 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419060602/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydTGmLs8ihs|url-status=live}}{{Citation|last=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert|title=Jungle Perform 'Smile'|date=11 December 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BGVa18vm7M|access-date=12 December 2018|archive-date=20 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220125947/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BGVa18vm7M&gl=US&hl=en|url-status=live}}

On 13 September 2018, "Heavy, California" was used to open the Apple September event.{{Citation|last=Apple|title=September Event 2018 — Apple|date=13 September 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFTmQ27S7OQ|access-date=10 November 2018}} In December 2018, the band's first single "Platoon" was used for the Peloton Digital Commercial.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_7ro26_shw |title=YouTube |publisher=YouTube |access-date=20 March 2020 |archive-date=20 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120134604/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_7ro26_shw |url-status=live }} Their single "Beat 54" was featured in football video game by EA Sports, FIFA 19. During the summer of 2019, Jungle's song, "The Heat " was played in Starbucks Nitro Cold Brew commercial, 'Whoa Nitro' Starbucks. {{cite web |url=https://www.popisms.com/TelevisionCommercial/210129/Starbucks-Nitro-Cold-Brew-Commercial-Whoa-Nitro-Starbucks-Nitro-Cold-Brew-Su?autoplay=1 |title=Starbucks Nitro Cold Brew Commercial - Whoa Nitro - Starbucks Nitro Cold Brew Summer 2019 (2019) |publisher=Popisms.com |access-date=29 January 2024 |archive-date=29 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129101420/https://www.popisms.com/TelevisionCommercial/210129/Starbucks-Nitro-Cold-Brew-Commercial-Whoa-Nitro-Starbucks-Nitro-Cold-Brew-Su?autoplay=1 |url-status=live }} Their single "Happy Man" was featured in a commercial by phone network O2 in 2019, in the first season of Spanish Netflix series Elite, and as the opening theme to the Apple TV+ show WeCrashed.

In April 2017, their track "Busy Earnin'" was used for the Toyota Yaris Hybrid TV advertisement.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sounds-familiar.info/2017/05/toyota-yaris-hybrid-a-new-energy/|title=Toyota Yaris Hybrid TV advert|date=15 May 2017|publisher=Sounds-Familiar|access-date=25 January 2021|archive-date=3 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603032436/http://www.sounds-familiar.info/2017/05/toyota-yaris-hybrid-a-new-energy/|url-status=live}}

Most recently, their track "GOOD TIMES" was used in the September 2024 Apple event. {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uarNiSl_uh4 | title=Apple Event - September 9 | website=YouTube | date=9 September 2024 }}

On 16 March 2021, Jungle premiered a trailer for "Loving in Stereo" featuring a vignette of the dancers regularly associated with the collective from previous videos, performing in some sort of abandoned compound or prison.{{Citation|title=JUNGLE - LOVING IN STEREO (TRAILER)| date=16 March 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN1aHpU8Tv4|language=en|access-date=4 September 2021|archive-date=4 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210904202450/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN1aHpU8Tv4|url-status=live}} As of the date of the trailer's release, it was initially unclear whether the title was in reference to their next album or just a single.{{Cite web|url = https://thissongissick.com/post/jungle-tease-loving-in-stereo/|title = Jungle Are Teasing Something Big Titled 'Loving in Stereo'|date = 16 March 2021|access-date = 19 March 2021|archive-date = 17 March 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210317021031/https://thissongissick.com/post/jungle-tease-loving-in-stereo/|url-status = live}}

It was not until 22 March 2021 that Loving in Stereo was confirmed as the title of their third studio album, by way of the announcement of the album's first single, "Keep Moving" which premiered via Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1's Hottest Record on 23 March 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://glidemagazine.com/255112/jungle-announce-new-album-loving-in-stereo-shares-disco-infused-keep-moving/|access-date=4 September 2021|website=glidemagazine.com|title=Jungle Announce New Album 'Loving in Stereo' - Shares Disco Infused "Keep Moving"|date=23 March 2021|archive-date=30 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730031803/https://glidemagazine.com/255112/jungle-announce-new-album-loving-in-stereo-shares-disco-infused-keep-moving/|url-status=live}}

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On 27 March 2023, the band announced their fourth studio album, Volcano, would be released on 11 August 2023 via Caiola Records.{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/jungle-single-candle-flame-new-album-volcano-interview-3420011|title=Jungle share single 'Candle Flame' and tell us about "explosive" fourth album 'Volcano'|last=Qureshi|first=Arusa|date=27 March 2023|website=NME|access-date=27 March 2023|archive-date=27 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327173457/https://www.nme.com/news/music/jungle-single-candle-flame-new-album-volcano-interview-3420011|url-status=live}}

On 11 August 2023, the band released Volcano along with an accompanying film titled Volcano, The Motion Picture. At the 2024 Glastonbury Festival, the band headlined the West Holts stage. {{cite web|url=https://edm.com/music-releases/jungle-volcano|title=Jungle Unveil Fourth Studio Album and Film, "Volcano"|last=Bierman|first=Brooke|date=15 August 2023|website=EDM.com|access-date=30 November 2023|archive-date=19 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819014259/https://edm.com/music-releases/jungle-volcano|url-status=live}}

On 7 October 2024, the band performed a cover of Birds of a Feather by Billie Eilish on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. {{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hNJFP4XOZE |title=Jungle - BIRDS OF A FEATHER (Billie Eilish cover) in the Live Lounge |date=2024-10-07 |last=BBCRadio1VEVO |access-date=2025-04-22 |via=YouTube}}

Jungle are known for their one-shot dance videos co-directed by Josh Lloyd-Watson, one of the two members of the band. Lloyd-Watson frequently collaborates with the same dancers, choreographer, and cinematographer.{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/best-music-videos-2019.html|title=The Best Music Videos of 2019|last=Zadie|first=Mooj|date=12 December 2019|website=Vulture.com|language=en-us|access-date=12 December 2019|archive-date=12 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212151830/https://www.vulture.com/article/best-music-videos-2019.html|url-status=live}}

Music videos for all the singles from the second album – "Casio," "Heavy California," "Cherry " and "Happy Man" – were directed by Lloyd-Watson and Charlie Di Placido, with Oliver Hadlee Pearch co-directing on "Happy Man." Choreography was overseen by Nat Zangi and Kane Klendjian (KZ Creatives), who also stars in "Happy Man." Olly Wiggins was the director of photography on all four videos.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dancentricity.com/2019/02/jungle-casio-heavy-california-cherry-happy-man-music-videos.html|title=Jungle – Casio + Heavy, California + Cherry + Happy Man directors cut (Music Videos)|website=Dancentricity.com|access-date=23 June 2020|archive-date=20 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920204714/https://www.dancentricity.com/2019/02/jungle-casio-heavy-california-cherry-happy-man-music-videos.html|url-status=live}}

Jungle

• Josh Lloyd-Watson – lead vocals, guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, synthesizers, sampler (2013–present)
• Tom McFarland – lead vocals, bass, keyboards, synths, samplers (2013–present)
• Lydia Kitto – lead vocals, keyboards, flute, guitar, bass (2023–present; touring/collaborator 2021–2023)

• George Day – drums, samplers (2013–present), percussion (2021–present)
• Geo Jordan – bass, percussion, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (2021–present)
• Will Fry – percussion (2024–present)

• Andro Cowperthwaite – backing vocals (2013–2018; 2019–2021)
• Jordan "PHANTOMjjjjj" Hadfield – bass, drums, percussion, backing vocals (2021–2022)
• Fraser MacColl – guitar, bass, backing vocals (2013–2021)
• Rudi Salmon – backing vocals (2013–2021)
• Nat Zangi – backing vocals (2018–2019)
• Andreya Triana – backing vocals (2021–2022)
• Dominic Whalley – percussion, synthesizers, backing vocals (2013–2021; 2022–2023)

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