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If you’re anything like us, for many a year there’ll
have been this great big INXS shaped hole in your heart
just waiting to be filled. So it’s with an equally huge
sigh of relief we can announce that with the release
of The Burn’s debut single that hole need gape no more.
Oh no. Influences and reference points may be pretty
far flung for this northern quartet – ranging from The
Stone Roses to The Music, Fleetwood Mac to The Coral
(eeugh!), Oasis and Starsailor – but ignore all of that
for the while.
‘The Smiling Face’ (Hut) with its anthemic bluesy bombast
and those closing-time-at-the-bar heartbreak vocals
gives the ghost of Michael Hutchence a good kick in
the ribs, sticks a cigarette in the corner of his mouth
and tosses him a bottle of JD. It doesn’t seem concerned
with much else. It is trapped in that hole and doesn’t
go any further, but it is brilliant. And how many bands
could you name right now that still play the toilets
but write to fill arenas?
They’ve spent most of the last 12 months touring the
UK with the likes of Ian Brown, Oasis, Paul Weller and
The Music and have just finished their first headline
UK tour. The first evidence from their recent studio
sessions is the new single, and why take our word for
how good it is when you can follow the link below and
hear it for yourself:
Media Stream
The
Smiling Face
http://www.the-burn.co.uk
James Berry for Crud Magazine© 2002
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| 04/02 1 Giant Leap - My Culture
04/02 Elfpower Interview - Andrew Rieger - Creatures
04/02 Frou Frou Interview - Guy Sigsworth/Imogen Heap
04/02 Gomez Interview - Ian Ball
04/02 Idlewild - Live - London Astoria
04/02 K's Choice Interview
04/02 Leaves - Live - Camden Dingwall
04/02 Longwave Interview - Exit
04/02 Lucy Mongrel Interview
04/02 Oasis - The Hindu Times
04/02 Phantom Planet - Interview
04/02 Unwritten Law - Interview
04/02 VUE - Coordinates Interview
05/02 BRMC - LIve - Kentish Town, London
05/02 Breeders - Title K
05/02 FC Kahuna - Machine Says Yes
05/02 Moco - Live - London Monarch
05/02 Need New Body - Interview
05/02 The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Live - Soundhause, Northampton
05/02 The Bellrays - Meet The Bellrays
06/02 Fleadh Festival - Finsbury Park
06/02 Frou Frou Coordinates Interview
06/02 Incubus - Interview - Mark Einziger
06/02 North Mississippi Allstars - Interview
06/02 Papa Roach - She Loves Me Not
06/02 Proud Mary - Live - Northampton, Soundhaus
06/02 Pulp - Live - Sherwood Pines, Edwinstowe
06/02 Reindeer section - You Are My Joy
06/02 Silverchair - Diorama
|  | 06/02 Something Corporate - Leaving Through The Window
06/02 Soinc Youth - Interview
06/02 The Burn - The Smiling Face
06/02 The Coral - Live - Roadmender, Northampton
06/02 The LIbertines - Live - The Social, Nottingham
06/02 The Vines, Sheffield Leadmill
06/02 Trik Turner - Interview
06/02 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Live, Soundhaus, Northampton
07/02 12 Stones Interview
07/02 Arolo -Interview
07/02 Buy To Let Doncaster - Anti Social Behaviour
07/02 Cassius - Interview
07/02 Farrah - Interview
07/02 Glassjaw - Interview
07/02 Neil Michael Haggerty - Interview
07/02 Hoobastank - Running Away
07/02 Leaves - Interview
07/02 LL Cool Jay Interview
07/02 Oasis - Live - Finsbury Park, London
07/02 Polyphonic Spree - Live - Camden Monarch
07/02 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
07/02 Super Furry Animals - Interview
07/02 The Beatings - Live - Metro Club London
07/02 The Bellrays + The D4 - Virgin Megastore, Oxford Street London
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