The story goes that Mick Jones (The Clash / BAD) liked the demos so much he produced ten tracks for the band and Paul Weller donated his studio. So I suppose it depends on how much you respect the opinions of Jones and Weller as to how much this whets your appetite for a band lauded for their ‘powerful combination of infectious melodies and angst delivered with a sonic buzz saw’.
Still, if you think Weller’s an overrated has-been, the fact they’ve also been booked to support Sleaford Mods as well as a bunch of old croakers including Blur and The Who may suggest they’ve got something.
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‘Dirt’doesn’t exactly stand out as being anything special. Yeah, it’s got energy, but it’s just another uptempo indue tune that could have been released any time in the last 30 years by a band who broke the charts before disappearing without trace, or equally by a band you saw down the pub who never got signed. Luck of the draw, I guess, and it helps if you’ve got big-name connections.
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