SAINT PHNX

(left to right) Alan and Stevie Jukes.

Indie Rock

Pop

**Saint Phnx** (stylized *SAINT PHNX*; pronounced *saint phoenix*) is a Scottish duo formed in 2016 that consists of the brothers Stevie and Alan Jukes.

## About

There’s nothing quite like the bond between siblings. It’s a deep friendship, forged by shared interest and experiences, that can also survive the most heated arguments. There’s camaraderie and competition. This bond is what’s at the heart of Saint PHNX.

Shades of Twenty One Pilots, X Ambassadors and Imagine Dragons have clearly influenced the band's immense sound but a big helping of attitude, a willingness to experiment and a knack for writing rousing choruses ensures they can rival any arena act and cut through to the top.

## History and Discography

Hailing from Wishaw, on the outskirts of Glasgow, the duo have played in bands together around the city’s music scene since their teens but recently made the decision to go it alone as a pair. Full of ambition and drive, they released their debut single "Reload" on July 4, 2016.

Despite being only a duo, SAINT PHNX have shown they have the ability to create a vast stadium-rock sound thanks to their soaring hooks and anthemic style of writing, topped by Stevie

Jukes’ impressive vocals.

The refusal to pigeonhole themselves into writing only about personal topics means their lyrics will burrow into the mind as much as their persistent riffs and stadium-ready choruses. And the negativity they encountered at the beginning of their musical careers did nothing to deter them from chasing their dream of playing the biggest stages possible. They aimed for the top right from the start writing big songs with stadium ready productions - all made in their shared studio in the outskirts of Glasgow in a former trade union building.

With only three songs out at the time attention soon came to the brothers as their second track 'King' was being played on US radio and they received a call from the Imagine Dragons manager asking them to support in London. “The pressure was on as we had only done 10 shows before that and we were on a big stage with one of the world’s biggest bands,” Alan remembers. “We rehearsed every minute of every single day to make sure we were spot on and that we held our own!” The reactions to the gig in person and on social media proved they did on one of their biggest shows to date.

“We’ve probably got enough material – we’ve got a lot of tracks but we’re in the process of writing more at the moment,” says Stevie. “I think what we’d like to do is release a couple more singles, then we’ll have the guts of an album to release next year.”

When asked about the ambitions for the band, in 2016, they responded: "*The philosophy is to keep doing what we’re doing and to enjoy it. We’re coming from a working class background and a working class town, we’ve had to fight and work for everything we’ve got. We’re only getting started man. The fact of the matter is we’re doing a hobby and making it a reality day after day. We’ll just continue to work hard and achieve big things*." Stevie and Al were formelly in a band called *Vigo Thieves*, but they left in 2016 to form the band [Saint PHNX].

"*I grew up listening to music and I started playing drums, and then guitar and then piano and Alan, my little brother, saw that and he started playing drums. He played in a couple of bands, I was playing in a band and we decided to start a band together. We did that for a couple of years and we really enjoyed it. Then we decided 'that’s it, we’ll just do something the two of us, something new, something fresh' and that’s what we did. So we’ve always played in bands but we just thought we’d try something new and exciting.*"
- Stevie

Stevie said in an interview to *UpKoming* the origin of the band name: "We were in another band for a good 2 years and we wanted to see the Phoenix rising from his flames. The other band was a little band and Saint means in a higher place so we go to a higher place".

On April 23rd, 2021, they announced they signed with Atlantic Records.

### SAINT PHNX'S timeline:

* In July 2016, they released their first song/single, "Reload". Later that year, they released the well-received song "King";
* In April 2017, they released the single "Rise", and then in July 2017 they released the single "Magic";
* In January 2018, they released the single "ONE". In November of that same year, they released the songs "Deadmen" and "Death of Me" that would later be apart of their debut album, 'DDMN';
* In March 2019, they released the single "Shake". Later, in May 2019, they released the single "Nunchuk";
* In Seotember 2019, they released the single "Sorry" that got 100,000 streams on Spotify in just two days;
* In November 2019, they released the song "Scream", being the last one before the album release;
* On January 31, 2020, the duo released their debut album, DDMN, with 10 songs;
* On March 27, 2020, they released two bonus songs in an EP titled 'DDMN 1.1';
* On June 19, 2020, they released another two songs in an EP titled 'DDMN 1.2';
* On April 23, 2021, they announced they signed with Atlantic Records.

## References

1. ↑ https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Tdg7NIdyWx9icE2GNZzxk/about
2. ↑ https://first-avenue.com/performer/saint-phnx
3. ↑ https://gigsoupmusic.com/boom/boom-saint-phnx-reload/
4. ↑ https://upkominguk.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/saint-phnx-interview/