Deciding he wanted to form a band, McVey subsequently discovered Bradley Simpson in 2011 through YouTube. James McVey was already managed by Richard Rashman and Joe O'Neill of Prestige Management. They have continuously toured worldwide since their debut in 2012, and they are the first band to headline London's O2 Arena five years in a row. In 2018, guitarist McVey participated in the eighteenth series of I'm a Celebrity.Get Me Out of Here! and finished in fifth place. The first act signed was American band The Tide. The Vamps have also launched their own record label, Steady Records, and they are working in partnership with EMI/Universal. Their first two albums, Meet The Vamps and Wake Up are both certified Gold in the UK. In 2017, they had their first number 1 on the UK Albums Chart with Night & Day (Night Edition). They formed in 2012 and signed to Mercury Records (now Virgin EMI Records) in the November of the same year.

The Vamps are a British pop band consisting of Brad Simpson, James Brittain-McVey, Connor Ball and Tristan Evans.

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