music this year" (NME) and "The best thing to come out of St.Helens since the East Lancs road" (The Word) amongst many others. Summer 2007 saw The Loungs appear at many festivals throughout the UK including Glastonbury, Knowsley Hall Music Festival, Bestival and Beat Herder. Their next single "Googly Moogly/Jimmy Two Shoes" followed in October 2007. Big Wow The Loungs split from Akoustik Anarkhy at the end of 2007. They spent 2008 working on their second album at Catalyst Studios in St. Helens and gigging regularly throughout the UK appearing at many festivals throughout the summer. A new song "Jack Sarfatti" appeared in June 2008 on USB stick attached to the cover of Amelia's Magazine which featured bands performing specially written songs on the subject of 'the future'. The band's second album Big Wow was released in March 2010 and featured 12 new songs. Alongside the album the band created 12 promotional videos to accompany each track which can be seen on the Fresh Hair Records YouTube page. B-Sides To Non-Existent A-Sides Throughout 2009/2010 the band released a series of monthly recordings to the members of their mailing list. In May 2011 the recordings where sequenced together as a free download only album B-Sides To Non-Existent A-Sides. Short Cuts The Loungs released their 3rd album proper, entitled Short Cuts, through Fresh Hair Records in November 2015. Discography Albums We Are The Champ - released 21 May 2007 on Akoustik Anarkhy 12" vinyl, CD Digipack and Download. Download available from 23 April 2007. Big Wow - released 8 March 2010 on Fresh Hair Records CD and download. B-Sides To Non-Existent A-Sides - released 17 May 2011 on Fresh Hair Records. Download only collection of B-Sides & Demos. Short Cuts - released 6 November 2015 on Fresh Hair Records CD and download. Singles I'm Gonna Take Your Girl/Seen My Baby Dancin' - released 28 February 2006 on Akoustik Anarkhy 7" and Download Armageddon Outta Here/Cats - released 2 April 2007 on Akoustik Anarkhy 7" and Download Googly Moogly/Jimmy Two Shoes - released 15 October 2007 on Akoustik Anarkhy 7" and Download Self-released CDs The "Learning Is Fun With The Loungs" EP - released Summer 2005 Download B-Sides to Non-Existent A-Sides - Collection of free downloads originally available through The Loungs' mailing list and now available as a download only album. Compilations Tales From The Lux - released 30 October 2006 on Lupine