UK Country supergroup First Time Flyers today have released their new single Looking
Back Now. Born from the feeling of having their first ever show as a group at C2C Festival 2023 which they can never experience again, the band wanted to capture that moment of nostalgia in a song.

First Time Flyers have gone on to have some incredible live music moments since they began such as the already mentioned C2C Festival, The Long Road, The Big Feastival, BST Hyde Park and more! Having played all these incredible shows, the band still look back with gratitude and love of that first gig which is testament to how humble they are.

“C2C was an incredibly overwhelming but positive experience for us” recalls Poppy from the band, “it was our first public performance, and the pressure was on for us to deliver the goods!”

As band member and producer Tim Protey-Jones says “thankfully we were surrounded by friends
which made the whole experience a lot easier”
One of those friends was Nashville songwriter Jeff Cohen (Sugarland, The Shires) who took the band
for dinner afer their show.

“Whilst we were waiing for our food, we started to tell him how emotional we were feeling about not being able to experience that buzz of a first show ever again” explained Vicki “and we saw that he was making notes and Poppy had started to write the last line of the chorus!”

The band knew that they were on to something so decided to get together with Jeff again the next
day to finish the song, “the only problem was that we couldn’t find a studio” Jake laughs “thankfully
Jeff knew of a music room in the basement of a restaurant, so we ended up there the next day
writing the song in a room next to the kitchen!”

A few weeks later the band decamped to Norfolk to record vocals for the song. As Tim says, “we
wanted to escape to somewhere where we could stop and be in the moment, very much like the
song says.”

Although the actual song isn’t actually about the gig, First Time Flyers have beautifully captured that nostalgic feeling both sonically and lyrically. The melody has a certain sense of longing which is masterfully done. The vocals from all four members are passionately sung with believability in each word. Harmonies that were meant to be together, First Time Flyers impress more and more with every song they deliver.

There isn’t really a vocal harmony group in the UK country scene quite like First Time Flyers and we are excited to have them in the fast growing genre. Can they be the UK’s answer to Little Big Town? Only time will tell but they are doing a pretty good job so far!

First Time Flyers are Vicki Manser, Jake Morrell, Poppy Fardell & Tim Protey -Jones.

Catch FTF headlining Country In the
Afternoon Festival in London on May 19th.

Buckle & Boots Festival on May 25th

The British Country Music Festival in Blackpool on Aug 31st

Small Town Big Festival in Bristol
on Sept 7th

‘Looking Back Now’ is released on April 12th on Lookout Mountain Records.