The poorest band in Birmingham...

"We are fucking poor, give us stuff; food, equipment, money, your watch ... anything."

Well, maybe they are fucking poor, but I don't think this will last too long. Who I'm talking about? Telegramme from Birmingham. I found their song "Dance" on the awesome Summer Sampler - yes, another one - "A sketch for summer" from CatCutterRecords. You should download it! But back to the band. Today I listened to their MySpace Page. They say, that they are influenced by Interpol, CatPower, Radiohead, Elbow... just to mention a few. Indeed, their music is a great mixture of all of these influences and bands. Faye, Andrew, Christopher and Danny performing some great Indie ballads like the 2007 released "Hot Blues" but are also smashing their guitars into the ring and fighting with beats, guitars and the great vocals of Faye like it is in "Dance". What an amazing song. Fayes vocals reminds me a little bit of swedish artist Annika Norlin (listen to her SoloProject "Säkert" here or to her band "Hello Saferide").
So if the band carrys on with this mixture of ballads and smashing hits I don't think that they will stay as poor as they pretend to be. The only question that remains is, how poor are they right now?