New band of the day – No 776: The Agitator

This 23-year-old Brightonian's spittle-flecked songs sound like Billy Bragg barking over Public Enemy beatsHometown: Brighton.The lineup: Derek Meins (vocals), Robert Dylan Thomas (drums).The background: Not that we want to be decried as bigots, but politics and pop tend to go together like PMs and broadcast microphones. We could count the number of successful political pop songs on one hand, with at least two of our fingers otherwise engaged in flicking a "V" at bothersome female OAPs from the ...

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