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 This record left our Brian feeling ecstatic.
Bag of shite single of the week is by Little Man Tate, Sheffield's answer to The Rezillios or summat. They've turned into Squeeze now, albeit a really shit one. 'Hey Little Sweetie' is quite vile, like a bad Arctic Monkeys crossed with that fucking horrid Franz Ferdinand song 'Do You Wanna'. It's a fucking no-brainer and wouldn't have warranted a review except the cartoon-y chorus made us laugh uncomfortably and brings to mind a bad 70's windowcleaner film. Cretins...utter cretins...
What the label says:
TRACKLISTING:
7”: Hey Little Sweetie / Nigel (Picture Disc – 1000 copies only)
CD: Hey Little Sweetie / Nigel / Pay Days Thursday
OVERVIEW:
Little Man Tate release a new single, “Hey Little Sweetie” through
Yellow Van/Skint Records on 8th September 2008. It precedes the release
of their anticipated second album ‘Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy’, on
the 15th September.
Following the band’s belting return with
single, ‘What Your Boyfriend Said’ in June, Sheffield’s Little Man Tate
unleash the second single, and long-standing live favourite, ‘Hey
Little Sweetie’.
In typically explosive style, ‘Hey Little Sweetie’
is a bruising, jaunty guitar-punch, with vocalist Jon Windle’s assured
tales of a female student’s deviant extra curricular activities.
The
single precedes the release of the band’s second album, ‘Nothing Worth
Having Comes Easy’, a record made under trying conditions, but one that
Little Man Tate are rightly supremely confident in.The band’s story
began in 2006 amid the musical storm that befell Sheffield. Behind the
scenes of his day job at The Boardwalk, outspoken young vocalist Jon
Windle shirked a career in football to focus his attention on the band.
With an honesty and wit akin to a youthful Damon Albarn, Jon was
writing songs that documented everyday life with lyrics that twisted,
turned and manipulated his observations of the city.
Following a
series of sell-out gigs in the city’s basement venues, the band signed
to V2 for their debut album ‘About What You Know’, released in January
2007. It spawned a Top 20 hit (‘Sexy In Latin’), enjoyed heavy radio
rotation and acclaim, and the gigs were selling out across the country
and beyond to much bigger audiences.
Despite the success, and having
sold more records than most of their new city peers put together,
Little Man Tate were one of the first bands to suffer from the music
industry’s major label cull. However, regrouping and determined to
prove feckless money men wrong, they headed to Sheffield’s celebrated
2Fly Studios to start work on the new album.
The result is a brave
record that Little Man Tate knew they could achieve, and one without
restraint. Bold, brassy and suitably buoyant.
The giddy testosterone
that fuelled their debut is still ever-present. Relationships, close
encounters and fleeting glances are still Jon Windle’s prime fodder for
lyrical recollection, whilst musically the band’s Britpop-informed
songcraft have side-stepped leftfield for giddy and intoxicating,
guitar-charged, sing-a-long rollicks with a darker, deeper tone.
Already
Little Man Tate are playing to bigger crowds across the UK. ‘Northing
Worth Having Comes Easy’ is the band’s call to arms and proof that
passion and good, positive songs are what really matter at a time of
industry anxiety. |
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