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Selby Town Hall Gigs
11/28/2009 7:15 PM at The Answering Machine + Rosie + The Interrogators
Town Hall, York Street, Selby Town Hall, YO8 4AJ
Cost: £2.50
We’re back - and what a show to come back with! Manchester’s The Answering Machine arrived three years ago amidst a flurry of record label drooling and furious journalistic superlatives the likes of which had not been seen since that ’other’ Manchester band were launched ten years earlier (I mean Oasis, by the way).
They’ve already been on tour as main support to The Manic Street Preachers this year (at the personal request of the band!) and have received across the board rave reviews for their debut album released this summer.
Think The Strokes and Franz Ferdinand, only better looking and with glorious sing-along choruses! Check out recent single Oklahoma below and tell me it isn’t one of the catchiest, most smile inducing songs you’ve ever heard!
"If The Inbetweeners had a house band then it would be The Answering Machine. They capture an essence of youth, a heady mixture of running as fast as your legs will carry you and laughing until your stomach hurts" - Gigwise
"On the evidence of the Elastica-esque ‘Obviously Cold’, the Smiths-y chimes of ‘Emergency’ and a new recording of their genius cow-punk debut single ‘Oklahoma’, they’ve shaved off the ‘near’ from the front of the phrase ‘perfect pop songs’. This is a fantastic debut. " - NME
"What The Answering Machine do is energetic, chorus-fuelled, jaunty indie-pop, and they do it very well indeed. Their rise to indie dancefloors is readied for the mainstream." - The Fly
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