New band of the day – No 810: Sunbirds

It's been a while since we heard a bunch of jangling 60s west coast acolytes quite this fineHometown: London, Los Angeles and Paris.The lineup: James Buttery (lead vocals, guitar), Dean Reid (vocals, guitar), Ben Axtell (bass), Denis Vittoz (drums).The background: Sunbirds are indeed sunny and Byrds-y, so well done them for selling themselves so pithily. They're a new band, funnily enough (we tried doing Old Band of the Day for a while, but it didn't catch on) and they formed the hard way – no...

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