SixStarHotel, or Six Star Hotel, are an alternative rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 2001. The group released three self-financed EPs—Circus Music, Everyone's a Critic, These Rosewood Theories—before moving on to full-length albums. They released their debut album A Kind of Crusade in January 2007 and their second album Tides and Tides in December 2009. History The band started out with founding members, David Clements and Neil Gillespie, playing together in the attic in Neil's house to the radio and making tape recordings of their efforts. Childhood friends, it was merely a way of having fun together yet they soon discovered that this may be more than just a hobby. They recruited Timothy Anderson a school mate of David's and Matt Minford, another of David's friends and SixStarHotel was born. The band then played at Forfey Festival in 2006, a year before their debut album. The group have toured Northern Ireland heavily since their formation and their early EP releases were met with acclaim from local press. In October 2004 the band relocated to Glasgow, Scotland and started working full-time at the band. The following months of hard touring up and down the UK led to 2006 seeing them recording tracks with esteemed producers Richard Flack (Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters) and Mark Aubrey (Bloc Party). They also completed a successful month-long tour of Denmark and shared stages with, among others, You Say Party! We Say Die! and The Young Knives as well as filling Belfast venue The Limelight in December 2006. 2007 saw the band release their debut album. Recorded in Belfast with producer Rocky O'Reilly of Oppenheimer, entitled A Kind Of Crusade and self-released through the band's own record label We Collect Records. The album was also made available for digital download as of 12 November 2007, the first such release for the band. Touring in support of the album was both heavy and successful. The album tour saw the band return to Denmark for another month-long tour, as well as branching out into the festival circuit, such as the Flevo Festival in the Netherlands. There has also been a well-received UK tour and airplay in student radio stations from Edinburgh to Leeds. A discussion of the album and their general ethos with Sstv.tv from October 2006 is available. The early part of 2008 was marked with the usual tours of mainland UK