The band originally formed under the name Carousel Moon, which was later shortened to The Moon. Under this name they found much success and built a large fanbase. After using this name for a couple of years they decided to change both their image and style, which resulted in a name change. For a short period of time they were known as Lazy Eye. Unfortunately, a lot of their old fanbase were unaware of the name change, and their fanbase dropped. After using this name for a number of months, they went under another, final name change and have become more popular than ever. During the name change from Lazy Eye to Little Man Tate the number in the band dropped from 5 to 4 as the second guitarist Charlie Waites left to form a new band. 

Their first single, The Agent, was released on 7" with Just Can't Take It as the B-side. All 1,800 copies sold out as pre-orders. The song got rated 9/10 by Teletext's Planet Sound.

Both The Agent and What? What You Got were released under the band's own label, Yellow Van Records, a tribute to their old yellow van which was stolen along with all their equipment at an early gig at Fibbers (Barfly) in York.

In April 2006 the band played a hometown, sellout gig at the Plug venue in Sheffield. Following this, they completed sell out gigs at London, Leeds and York amongst others. In August 2006, Little Man Tate played their first festival at the Summer Sundae Weekender in Leicester, UK. The band have also featured in such magazines as Rolling Stone, NME, Sandman, Q, Radio Coma amongst other leading magazines. As well as being featured heavily on radio stations such as Revolution in Manchester and Manx Radio in Isle of Man. Also in August 2006, Little Man Tate played the Reading and Leeds festivals on the Carling Stage to great acclaim.

[Source: Wikipedia. See their Little Man Tate article for more information]