New band of the day – No 1,202: Towns

This Bristol band are baggy meets shoegaze: shaggy, perhapsHometown: Weston-Super-Mare.The lineup: James MacLucas (vocals), John Paul Beaumont (guitar), Adam Hastings (bass), Miles Hastings (drums).The background: Twenty years or so ago there was a war on. And although it may not have involved guns and tanks, it felt quite vivid and real. Make that ethereal: it was a metaphorical face-off between the stoned, surly baggy boys of the north and the foppish, frazzled shoegazers of the south. For som...

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