The View -- bassist Kieran Webster, lead guitarist Pete Reilly, lead singer Kyle Falconer, and drummer Steve Morrison -- got together in their native Dundee, near Scotland's east coast, in 2005, when none of them had yet reached 20. Prior to storming the U.K. with their energetic, scruffy ska-punk and throwback rock, they were a cover band. But as of 2007, when they made their U.S. debut at a concert in New York City, those days were far behind them: in 2006, with only two shows for tastemakers back in Europe under their belt, they signed to 1965 Records, distributed by Columbia and run by James Endeacott, who has worked with similarly red-hot acts the Strokes and the Libertines. Hats Off to the Buskers, the debut album that spawned the U.K.
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