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Just stumbled across this little beauty from our big old bank of artists we’ve worked with over the years. Scottish, 2007 Mercury prize nominees, indie rock band, The View.

Their sound, which incorporates a wealth of styles including punk, pop, alternative rock, powerpop, and folk was a hit from day one and their debut album ‘Hats Off To The Buskers,’ released back in January 2007 shot to number one in the UK Album Chart the week of it’s release.

Riding a wave of popularity which started in the mid-noughties and saw a boom in young, working class bands writing straightforward songs with catchy choruses. Their style at their peek was reminiscent of The Enemy, The Fratellies and The Pigeon Detectives which we’d fallen in love with five or six years earlier, and best of all they were even more interesting and gave even less of a fuck about us, you and the world.

Heres a shot from our day of hanging out with them. Ah it’s hard work right – but someones got to do it.

We’re been rifling through the deep dark depths of our computer and look what we found: Brummy Indie Rock Band formed in 2001, The Twang rocking our threads back in the day.

Made up of Phil Etheridge, Jon Watkins, Martin Saunders, Stu Hartland and Matty Clinton, these guys first hit our radar back in March of 2007 with their debut single, “Wide Awake’ shortly followed by the album, ‘Love It When I Feel Like This’ reaching #3 in the UK charts.

Their second album, ‘Jewellery Quarter,’ iconically named after the area of Birmingham in which the band had finally settled was released two years later, produced by Neil Claxton and written (pretty randomly) half on the Isle Anglesey where the band shut themselves away in a private cottage, and half in Granada, Spain.

This year saw the release of their third album 10:20 with a new guitarist and drummer (after he stole over £10,000 of studio equipment – smooth) and a bucket load of fresh material.