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The Tommys
Every once in a while ‘the kids’ latch onto something that is their own. It is organic, self-appointed and outside the regular music business’ London-based agenda. This is happening now in the North-West, where teenagers in their hundreds are turning up to see a band in places like Stoke, Crewe, Blackpool and Sheffield although they have never released a record or been in the NME.
That band are The Tommys, four feisty teenagers with their fiery brand of pop-punk and an average age of 17. And guess what!! They are girls doing what boys used to do – fucking rocking it live!
Word is spreading fast! In May of this year Signal Radio in Stoke picked up on the buzz and started playing a demo track ‘5 Star Queen Of The Backseat’. In due course this became the most requested track on the station. The band has continually played live and now sell out gigs across the north of England.
Then there are the songs ‘7Teen’, ‘The Day The Whole World Turned Chav’, ‘Set It Off’ to name a few. Blistering, fast, exciting and highly memorable.
Rejecting major label deals in favour of releasing their music via the Internet, going direct to their fans and the fuelling the buzz that has already started;
The Tommys have also had masses of local press, one being a feature in The Guardian by Alexis Petridis.
‘[The Tommys]….are snappy and snotty, with choruses to die for and lyrics that could only have been written by a teenage girl’ – Alexis Petridus “The Guardian)
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