THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Weaned on the raw, passionate, two-minute tunes of The Who, The Kinks, and The Clash, The Len Price 3 are a high-energy garage combo from the Medway district of North Kent in the United Kingdom. Comprised of Glenn Page on guitar and vocals, Steve Huggins on bass and Neil Fromow on drums (no; no one in the band is named Len Price), The Len Price 3 got their start at a bar in Maidstone where bands could pay for the privilege of rehearsing in front of the drinking customers.
When the trio were banned for playing too loud, they simply changed their name and booked another gig under the new moniker a few weeks later. Eventually, the band found an audience for their revved-up, no-nonsense sound, and shared stages with a wide variety of noted acts, from The Libertines to The Lovely Eggs.
In 2005, The Len Price 3 came to the attention of the Australian label Laughing Outlaw Records, who signed the band and released their debut single Christian In The Desert b/w Dorolea, as well as their first album, Chinese Burn. The album received strong reviews and the band toured extensively in the U.K., with airplay and multiple live performances radio. They even went to America for the first time to play at South by Southwest in 2006.
During that trip, they met Steve Van Zandt — who, unknown to the band, had come to see them play at a small bar in Greenwich Village on a Monday night in New York. They were headlining that evening but were disheartened when the entire audience left after the support band. Not to be beaten, the band took to the stage and delivered a blistering performance to only the sound man — or so they thought, because at the end of their set, Van Zandt came out of the shadows and offered to sign them there and then to his label, Wicked Cool Records.
They released their second LP Rent A Crowd in 2007, which was helped along nicely when their song If I Ain’t Got You was also featured in the Rock Band game and on a TV ad. Their third album Pictures was moving into a slightly slicker and less tethered-to-the-garage-territory. It arrived in early 2010, along with a support slot with Sir Paul McCartney at Hyde Park and a mention on the cover of Rolling Stone. After a long break that included a perhaps unsurprising change in labels, the band returned in early 2014 with a new album, Nobody Knows, followed by the 2017 album Kentish Longtails and Ip Dip Do in 2022.
Now, for those who missed it the first time around, The Len Price 3 have re-released Chinese Burn with four previously unavailable bonus tracks.”
