I am Seven

I am Seven (or I am 7) are a now-defunct Britpop group. Matt Russell and Jai Stokes first teamed up to form Broadsword. When they invited David Brown into the band, they dropped Broadsword and became Zeus. The line-up changed sixteen times throughout the band's history. In 1996, when Dave Trimnall, the drummer for Zeus, emigrated to Australia, Stokes promptly closed the band. Later that year, Stokes met Ian Faragher, a promising drummer, who had played with Russell in a Manchester based rock band, Crazy Apartment. They decided to form a new band as a trio. The band first made their breakthrough when they won the Pepsi New Band of 1998. Soon afterwards, they released their first single, "Welcome". The song received praise from Bob...