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TCT Music presents...
 Milburn
release their debut album, “Well Well Well”, on 9 October 2006 on Mercury
Records.
Continuing the Sheffield assault on the music scene, Milburn are a
four-piece outfit that produces ear grabbing-riffs and essential melodies,
underpinned by the raw tones of the mod-punk era, which epitomises the
youthfulness and abundant potential of the band. Songs are what it's all
about with Milburn. Sure their spiky, up-for-it guitar pop has been compared
to The Jam, Razorlight and inevitabley Arctic Monkeys, but sift through
their Fopp bags and you'll find a band living and breathing music, from
Bedouin Soundclash to Rod Stewart to Dr Dre and back.
The Details
Date: Sunday 22 October 2006
Venue: The Fez Club, Gun Street, Reading
Tickets: £9 adv
Note: 16+
Doors: 7.00pm
Milburn Biography
The sound of bright young Sheffield gets more youthful by
the moment - and now is very much Milburn's moment. With a current average
age of 19, Milburn have been playing together since they were 14, practising
up in Greeny's Nan's loft (she'd bring up the orange juice on a tea tray)
and Louis and Joe's Dad's office on the weekend ("did the rest of the staff
know? Not really"), until they emerged lean, loud and keen, with a
formidable live reputation, an arsenal of undeniable songs and a fanbase as
passionate about Milburn as Milburn are about good muisc. Little wonder
first proper single "Send In The Boys" stormed the charts at 22, off the
back of little press and precisely not very much radio play at all.
Songs are what it's all about with Milburn. Sure their spiky, up-for-it
guitar pop has been compared to The Jam, Razorlight and inevitabley Arctic
Monkeys, but sift through their Fopp bags and you'll find a band living and
breathing music, from Bedouin Soundclash to Rod Stewart to Dr Dre and back.
It’s not taken long for Milburn to build up an enviable live following,
selling out The Sheffield Boardwalk twice and creating a buzz the
pre-internet way by playing barnstorming shows. (Don't bother about asking
them about MySpace, they've only just registered for a password). With a
buzz reaching as far afield as Australia, it was only natural the record
companies would start their stampede, something Milburn dealt with in the
inimitable way. "We went with the people we trusted," says Louis. "And told
the others to fuck off." Part of (a) the burgeoning Sheffield scene - Spring
2006 saw Milburn touring Europe with Arctic Monkeys and count Harrisons,
Bromheads Jacket and Reverend And The makers as muckers - and (b) a city
with a musical heritage with an embarrassment of riches, Milburn are rightly
chuffed of their roots.
The last few months have seen Milburn on lockdown with producer Dave Eringa
(Manics / Ash / Idlewild) polishing up a classic debut album. Joe: "We don't
want to be clever smart bastards that are going to be in the music press for
two weeks," he says. "If you go into shops now, you see albums that aren't
even going to be on the shelves in a fortnight. What's that about? We want
to make an album that in 15 years time kids will still pick up. It won't be
too long, it won't be too short," he says. "It'll be classic fucking stuff."
And that, friends, is Milburn all over.
Milburn is:
Joe Carnall - lead vocals, bass
Louis Carnall - vocals, rhythm guitar
Tom Rowley - lead guitar
Joe "Greeny" Green – drums
Copyright Josaka
25 September 2006
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