Bit of review of The Earlies

from the Guardian.
'In an age of subtle product placement and stealth marketing, there is something laudably direct about the Earlies' sales pitch. "Oose bought our new single?" asks keyboard player Christian Madden in a lugubrious Mancunian drawl. A few hands are raised. He shakes his head. "Piss-poor," he says. "For Giles 'ere to validate himself to his mother, we've got to get into the charts." Giles Hatton - a burly, bearded man in a cowboy hat - looks up from his keyboard and waves cheerily. "She likes Cliff Richard," nods Madden. "A good review in The Wire magazine means nothing to his mum.".

Have you heard that Bright Eyes (prolific alt country band from US led by wunderkid Conor Orbst) are at no 1 and 2 in the Billboard top 100? That is the most shocking piece of chart news since the Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses started getting on TOTP.

BTW the Earlies sometimes back up Micah P. Hinson who was brilliant in Whelans last week.