**Credit to Cameron White for the fantastic photo of the sunrise over Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station's iconic cooling towers
"Based in the UK and from Chesterfield in Derbyshire, UtS are a duo playing an interesting mix of semi-acoustic rock...from catchy classic rock to story-telling folk-rock to acoustic prog..."
“...their music evolves naturally, it doesn't try to fit in somewhere...there's real life experience here...people relate to the stories told...”
"...they play songs that people describe as very 'English'...something I know they're totally at ease with...it seems to fit what UtS are about..."
Hello World,
The music page on here provides a selection of demos of recent songs and also some from a few years ago - they'll give you an idea of the music we play, we hope you like 'em...
At the moment, we're looking at how best to get our music out there. Given the state of things, many venues have been struggling to put on as many gigs as they did in years gone by.
We're finding most local venues generally want to put on covers bands. We want to play our own songs, so, for now, we'll keep working on new material and look how to get back to playing live. It's a work in progress but we WILL see you at a gig somewhere sometime soon...
Cheers,
UtS
Latest news
May 2026: NEW TRACK: We've remastered another classic: ‘I’m Broke' - a very catchy tune. Please jump onto the music page & give it a listen - it's the first appearance of this track on the website…enjoy!!
May 2026: GIG NEWS: We've been invited to play at the Summer Solstice Festival at the Crooked Spire, Chesterfield on Saturday 20 June. We'll be on stage at around 7.10pm. For full details please check out our 'Gigs' page.
NEW VIDEO: The video to 'I Love That Song' goes live on YouTube at 3.00pm UK time on Friday 22 May. Please check it out and if you like it, give it a thumbs up & subscribe to the channel. Thanks!!
May 2026: ANOTHER REMASTER: We've remastered a classic golden oldie - ‘Happy Life’ - you can check it out on the music page. It's a catchy one !!
NEW VIDEO!! The video to the radio edit of ‘Walk Away’ goes live on YouTube on Friday 8 May at 3.00pm UK time. You can give it a watch on our channel at youtube@underthesunuk5. Don't forget to like and subscribe to the channel and please leave a comment if you liked the track.
REMASTER: We've remastered ‘I Love That Song’ - just head to the music page to give it a listen. Watch this space as we're currently working on a video for this track - we'll let you know when it's on YouTube.
April 2026: REMASTERS: We've remastered a couple of our older tracks - ‘16 Beers’ & ‘When I Was 10’ - you can check them out on our music page. More videos will be available on YouTube soon, so keep checking back for updates or, better still, pay our channel a visit at youtube@underthesunuk5 to subscribe. You can also use the link at the bottom of this page to access our other socials. Cheers!!
April 2026: NEW VIDEO!! The video to the 2024 remaster of ‘Rooftops’ goes live on YouTube on Friday 10 April at 3.00pm UK time. It's a song about recovery from the loss of someone close to you. The song will mean many different things to many different people, but we hope you'll all find the message uplifting in some way. We'd be happy to hear your story & how the video made you feel. If you got something from the video please give it a like & subscribe to our channel. You can also join our mailing list by filling in your email address in the box at the bottom of this page. Thanks!!
March 2026: NEW VIDEO!! The video to the 2024 remaster of ‘I Like It’ goes live on YouTube on Sunday 15 March at 7.00pm UK time. We hope you like it - if you do, a full watch, comment, like & subscription would be great. Cheers!!
February 2026 UPDATE!! The new video to the 2024 remaster of ‘Old Father Time’ is now up on our YouTube & Instagram channels. The links to those sites are at the bottom of this page. We'd love it if you'd give it a watch, comment & subscribe. Thanks!!
February 2026: We now know how we're going to try & best utilise social media moving forward & will provide further updates soon. We're also in the process of finalising some new songs & are also working on some music videos for some earlier material. We'll let you know when the first one has been uploaded to Instagram & YouTube. You may also have noticed our updated band logo; we love it, hope you do too. Cheers for now!
January 2026: With Xmas & the New Year behind us we were due to get back together on 8 January but were foiled by a shed load of snow courtesy of storm Goretti. Things do come along that are meant to try us!! Another being our withdrawal from Facebook - after issues with them over a couple of our posts, we decided their platform is not the best way to promote our music. We're looking at developing our presence on more effective social media sites - we'll keep you updated on this. In the meantime Happy New Year and we hope to see you at a gig somewhere in 2026.
December 2025: Looking back over 2024 and 2025, it's clear we've had a challenging couple of years with the loss of family members. The consequences of this quite naturally took precedence over all things UtS.
However, on the plus side, we now have our own purpose built practice room and have been hard at work since late August writing and developing new ideas. The songs are rapidly coming together and we are now getting closer to recording them and being ready to get out there playing live.
Watch this space for more updates… we'll keep you updated.
In the meantime, have a very festive Yuletide and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.