Devised plans to start a band

Towards the end of 2006, Higgs and Niven devised plans to start a band “with a sort of Paul Morley -inspired, poptimist aesthetic”. The band took the name Everything Everything from the first two words of the Radiohead song ” Everything in Its Right Place “, the opening track to their album Kid A , although Niven has also described the choice as follows: “The idea as I saw it was to try to take contemporary R&B pop music and fashion a vaguely Futurist project out of it, and between the two of us we chose the name Everything Everything, a détournement of sorts of an over-saturated media culture into something idealistic and expansive.” With the addition of Pritchard and Spearman, the band began performing in the autumn of 2007. Pritchard recalls “we were initially more punky, with more guitars and no synths at all. It was easiest to play gigs like this and to get to grips with playing together. But the plan was always to expand the sound when we had the scope/could afford the gear!”