On the 19th of December we have New Education playing Lennons for a special headline show. This brit-pop influenced rock and roll band have a bit of a notorious history thus far. Their unruly swagger and questionable behaviour has seen this four piece banned from a handful of venues amidst the settling dust of the scuffles they encountered on the way.
The thing is, this isn't some sort of cliched notion of rock and roll that New Education are constructing - it's not contrived in the slightest, it's just what they're like, I mean come on, it's what most twenty-something blokes are like, these ones just happen to play music.
Throughout the six or so New Education songs I've heard there's a definite theme, a reoccurring vein that pumps optimism around these wonderfully distorted British scowls of rock brilliance. Perhaps that's what makes this special. These guys have been given a chance, a chance that so many have longed for. Stuck in dead end nine-to-fives in a suffocated town with no dreams, no hopes - or at least, no achievable ones. Maybe that's why New Education are separated from the countless other acts who try to imitate what they do, they actually fucking want it. You wouldn't see Farris Rotter or whatever the cockmuncher's calling himself now flaunting passion like that, how unbecoming! fucking do one.
'Today' is a live for the moment anthemtic howl of aspiration and promise. It's a song by four young men from Stoke who grew up covering Oasis songs in their bedrooms, sheltering from the industrial abyss and lulls of life around them. Thankfully for us though, instead of getting caught up in the tormenting clogs of a regimented existence they decided there was something worth getting out of bed for, something worth singing about, something worth fighting for.
This is the type of great British rock and roll that you pop on your ipod and walk down the street like your in the 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' video.
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