Burn Me Out

Manchester: full of people with ridiculous haircuts playing Stone Roses records to gullible students, right?

WRONG!

Some of the people with ridiculous haircuts are in brilliant electro bands:

Presenting The Tigerpicks, a new band from Manchester who have recently taken several things by storm (including the In The City conference and Deltasonic record label) by playing their own brand of noisy electro sexdisco to assorted impressed gawpers.

They are Frankie Ross, Martyn Anderson and Emma "Reece" Leatherbarrow; shown in some kind of order in the photo above. Assuming that the one in the middle is Martyn, we reckon that the one on the right of the picture looks like an Emma and the one on the left is therefore definitely Frankie. It could equally be the other way around though, we suppose.

Their signature tune (more bands should have them) is ‘Disco Punk Electro Funk’, which sounds like a non-boring indie band having a go at being Girls Aloud and getting away with it better than anyone could have expected. It is, therefore, amazing.

And when they’re not sounding like everyone’s favourite girl band, things get even more bonkers. ‘Crazy Juices’ is a big thumping bastard of an electro record very much of the hands-in-the-air school of these things; ‘Burn Me Out’ is more of the same with added rawk guitars and ridiculous operatic bits all over the place and ’Pow Pow Pow’ has a bit in it where the vocals go all old rave and urge the listener to “oooh trip the light fantastic” and so on, which is brilliant.

Revision Pointers:

: : Manchester
: : Electro
: : Good hair
: : Bits you think you can sing along to but find out you can’t when you actually try.
: : Massive danceability rating
: : Amazing