"For every jangly guitar line....there's a chiming
rafter-raiser more reminiscent of U2.
Lie back and think of England"
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Darryl Sterdan, Toronto Sun
Peterborough, Ontario's Union City released their first single "These Days" in North America on April 6th 2010 via Tinderbox Music and immediately received widespread airplay through American and Canadian college radio, cracking the top 100 in the American college radio (CMJ) charts.
Due to the success of the single in the North American college charts, and a successful mini-American tour to support it, the band signed a licensing deal with MTV, E!TV and Oxygen Networks in the United States in July 2010, to have "These Days", "The War", and "The Girl Who Wasn't There" played on TV shows like The City (The Hills spinoff), Keeping Up With the Kardashians, The Spindustry, The Bad Girls Club, The Spindustry, as well as new sketch comedy show "Warren the Ape", among others.
In November 2010, Union City was invited to play at the largest music conference in Canada - the 2011 Canadian Music Week in Toronto, and was invited to take part in a music festival in Austin, Texas to coincide with the South by Southwest music festial in March 2011.
Union City is currently writing and recording more material for a follow-up release, preparing for another American tour, and is hoping to make 2011 their year!
Oasis, Shed Seven, The Beatles, The Stone Roses, The Who, Ocean Colour Scene, The Verve
