And The Entitled Sons debut album is out this week
The Entitled Sons(Image: The Entitled Sons)
A family rock band has announced their biggest tour yet, on the eve of the release of their debut album. It’s been a steady rise for The Entitled Sons – a band made up of TV presenter Sarah Beeny’s husband and four sons – since they won a competition to play at Glastonbury in 2023.
The group’s debut album ‘No Clue’ is out on Friday (Nov 28), and the group, from East Somerset, have been backed by everyone from Claudia Winkelman to The Sun, and tipped to be the next big thing in British rock music.
On the eve of the album release, the band has been booked to play the O2 Academy in Bristol, one of the biggest live music gig venues in the city, on Valentine’s Day, February 14 next year. The gig comes after they performed a sold out show at The Fleece in Bristol last month.
A measure of the band’s success in the last year or so is that last November they supported Somerset rock legends Reef for a sold out show at the Cheese & Grain in Frome, but last weekend, they sold out the venue themselves.
The band is made up of Sarah Beeny’s husband Graham on bass, with sons Billy on keyboards, Charlie on lead vocals, Rafferty on guitar and youngest son Laurie – who was just 12 when they started three years ago – on drums.
Proud mum Sarah has presented mainly property and renovation shows for 25 years on TV including most recently ‘Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country’, charting the property developer and her family’s life as they move from London to a former 220-acre farm near Bruton in Somerset.
Sarah Beeny has opened up about whether her sons are ‘nepo babies'(Image: Instagram/Sarah Beeny)
She has addressed criticism that the band are ‘nepo-babies’ and said the family chose the name to own their circumstances. The boys appeared on her podcast, and acknowledged that they were ‘100 per cent nepo babies’, and fully recognised the privileges they have had, earlier this year.
Sarah told Kate Thornton’s White Wine Question Time podcast earlier this year that she believed the band had to be ‘twice as good’ to make it, because of the criticism.
“They do work really hard,” she said. “They had an opportunity and they took the opportunity, and I think in life you should take the opportunities you have. They are having an amazing time,” she said.
After host Kate joked that the working title of the band was originally ‘nepo babies’, Sarah Beeny said taking opportunities should be seen as a good thing, and compared breaking into the music industry with taking over a family business.
The Entitled Sons(Image: The Entitled Sons)
“It’s so true this – something like the title ‘Johnson & Sons’ has been put outside shops for generations and everyone goes ‘oh great!’” she told the podcast.
“If you had an electrical business, and your sons entered it, it would be quite normal, because they’d been around electrics all their life and they joined, everyone would go ‘oh that’s wonderful, what a lovely family business’, but for some reason – I’m not in the music business – but they’ve been around this kind of world, because that’s the kind of world I’m in, for always and so it is odd isn’t it?
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“Ultimately in my opinion they have to be twice as good. Nepo babies is a funny one, it’s seen as a negative thing. But I think taking your opportunities, I would call a good thing. Take your opportunities in life. All anyone can do is open the door, and if you’re rubbish, you’re rubbish. “They wouldn’t be flying if they didn’t have great music and people didn’t like them. They come to a gig and they like them so they come back again.
“They got in first with ‘The Entitled Sons’, because they thought people were going to call them entitled, so they thought ‘oh we’re just going to call ourselves that, so then no one can say it’, it’s like it’s out in the room. A lot of people have said ‘you’ve got to change the name of the band’, but by that time they were like ‘we’ve launched now’. As soon as people get over the name, you just like the music, and like them,” she added.
- The Entitled Sons’ debut album No Clue is released on Friday. Tickets for their show at the O2 on February 14 are on sale.