A Boy Called Doris - Star Crossed Lovers/ Chom Chom

The latest single from the Regal Singles Club is ‘Star Crossed Lovers’ / ‘Chom Chom’ by Manchester’s A Boy Called Doris, released 8th October.

Imagine if you will a chance meeting between Lou Reed, Mazzy Star and the Couteau Twins at a Northern folk club. Armed only with a Tandy handheld tape recorder and a £5.99 microphone from Dixons, you attempt to capture the results... A boy called Doris, a girl named Spanner and an enigmatic bass player known only as Rah form a band. They like rolling tobacco, recording in back bedrooms in the early hours and the several small villages that are scattered around the Manchester conurbation... particularly Rawtenstall.

Together they make delicate, sun-kissed pop songs about monkeys, Shakespeare plays and odd ball Mancunians; drenched in girl-boy-girl vocals, chimy acoustic guitars and firmly rooted pop sensibilities, witness the gorgeous ‘Star Crossed Lovers’ and ‘Chom Chom’ (so-called because the guitars go chom chom, just in case you were wondering).

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