Our names are Sam (22) and Tim Aitken (25), yes we’re brothers all though we don’t look like it as one of us decided to be 6’7ft tall. We go by the name SAMETIME and have been performing together for 12 years, we pride ourselves on our live show with the goal to get in front of as many eyes and ears as possible. We started performing on the streets busking and in pubs at the ages of 9 and 12 and at the sametime began writing our own songs and released our first “album” under the name ‘hoo8hoo’.

We spent the following years getting our 10,000 hours playing anywhere that would have us and taking any opportunity that came our way. At the ages of 14 and 16 we stopped pub gigs and busking and started SAMETIME. The very same year we started SAMETIME we were one of the youngest acts to sign a worldwide publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing and released our first single ‘Where The Wind Blows’.

Since our first release we’ve gone on to release 3 EPs and a couple of stray singles. Being a band made of two brothers, we had two completely different types of influences and that is reflected in our early work as we searched for our sound. We then saw video of ‘The 1975’ playing their song ‘The Sound’ at BBC Big Weekend and it was the first time we ever agreed on something, we both said “we want that”. We spent a couple of years, working with pop producers in Australia and learning how to produce music ourselves to develop the sound you hear today.

At the end of 2022 we found ourselves feeling a little lost and hopeless, playing the same festivals, same venues and releasing music we weren’t even fans of ourselves in search of some sort of breakthrough. We decided to change all of that, pack our things and by a one way ticket to the UK with Brighton in our sights. Now living in Brighton, we plan on getting another 10,000 hours under our belts. We’ve gone back to our roots of busking in the streets to promote ourselves and earn money for rent, releases and whatever the f*ck council tax is. Since then we have gained over 12,000 followers across all platforms, sold out 4 headline shows (Hope & Ruin x2, Rossi Bar and Green Door Store), packed out every venue we played in during the The Great Escape 24 weekend and we’ve released two singles off our upcoming debut album. All of this happened within one year of living in Brighton and we’ve never felt better about this project.

We have many plans for the rest of 2024 including releasing more music, growing our fanbase and playing our biggest headline show yet.