Labels like "Skartic Monkeys" or "Kooks with trumpets" are a bit below the belt but are inevitable for a band with such an Anglocentric perspective and a musical palette that encompasses Indie-pop and white-boy Ska.
On their Facebook page their list of influences includes full English's, tea, Waterloo sunset and Billy Bragg.
The five songs by this Yorkshire five-piece centre on a down to earth, deadpan Northern sensibility with a narrow cultural vista that encompasses council estates, back alleys, bin bags, slot machines and the M1.
In this working class world, the girls tend to be a bit slaggy and the guys a bit laddish.
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The lack of poetry in the daily grind is summed up when they rhyme "fight" with "shite" (For The Lads) and when the not so happy Larry learns the hard way that life is not a rich vista of endless possibilities ("you can do anything you want.....but not that").
The dry humour and catchy songs give the band a certain Madness-style charm and remind us that when it comes to the English class system, nowt changes.
Littlemores Online
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