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The View: Hats Off To The Buskers

The indie rock scene is bursting at the seams but these boys have the best tunes since the Arctics. Everyday concerns turned into hits.

SFTW quizzes singer Kyle Falconer:

Describe the place you grew up in.

We’re all from a place called Dryburgh in Dundee. People think we had a really hard time growing up but it was just a normal housing scheme.

We’d just drink cider, kick footballs and hang around on the steps. We were always in trouble, climbing on roofs, that sort of thing.

Why did you get into making music?

We all used to play together when we were at school. We never had any intention of making money — we just did it because we enjoyed it.

We used to play Beatles and Oasis covers and it went from there really.

How did you get your break?

This has become a bit of a legend now. We were just standing outside the Babyshambles tour bus when they played Dundee and we asked Pete Doherty if he’d listen to our demo.

I was stuttering, I couldn’t even work the CD player. Pete passed on the demos to label boss James Endeacott and he signed us when he started his new label 1965.

In a nutshell, describe your album.

Well, we did the album with Owen Morris who produced Oasis’s Definitely Maybe. We were playing at 1965’s launch party and Owen turned up p****d.

Two days later he said he wanted to do our album. We write songs about what we know. We’re a band for people to hold on to.

How did you feel about being nominated?

It’s all a bit new to me, I’ve never really followed any kind of awards before but I’m really grateful to be nominated. It’s flattering.

What would it mean to win?

We haven’t thought about it, but it would be great to win it. It’s one of those prizes that’s actually about the music rather than everything else that goes on around bands.

Which other nominees do you admire most?

We really like Arctic Monkeys. Great songs and the right attitude.

Which musician, alive or dead, would you most like to meet?

We like loads of old stuff, bands like The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, The Clash. It would be great to have met bands like that.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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