Town Bike
Town Bike ask 'Are you ready, world?' Pop music just got cuter, sexier and a helluva lot more bratty. Town Bike are four kids from Merseyside on a mission to reclaim the dance floor from po-faced indie chancers and miserable emo scenesters, and this is the opening salvo of their attack. Sarah (vocals) and Janey (bass) met on the beer-sodden floors of Liverpool’s DIY punk community, and swiftly grew tired of the increasingly-unlistenable sounds that began to dominate the shows they went to. Repulsed by everyone else’s apparent commitment to utter tedium, they formulated a plan for the ultimate pop band - one that would combine the play-dumb dynamism of three-chord punk with instant hooks and a ‘fuck you’ attitude. One drum-machine-powered demo later and they suddenly had an ally in the form of Steve Lamacq, who declared thirty-second swearathon 'Cockmuffbumhole' to be “one of the hottest records in the world right now.” Other music moguls followed suit, with support from Everett True, describing them as ‘punk done proper’. Having established their DIY credentials, Town Bike decided to flesh out their operation from a Helen Love-esque duo into a full-on live pop machine. New members were duly found in the form of local punk legends Morgan (guitar) and Charlie (drums), and thus the band was complete. Town Bike’s debut album GO! FIGHT! WIN! will be the first release on Super Kawaii POP! Recordings.
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Friday 13th February 2009