Band: Flashguns
Day: Saturday 15th
Time: 10.30-11.15
Place: Buffalo Bar
Bill: Paul Hawkins And Thee Awkward Silences, Fredrick Stanley Star, Attack + Defend
Myspace Genre: Indie/New Wave/Soul

Local? Brighton
Am I being biased as they’ve played Joy? No but slightly biased because they’re playing a Shape gig.

The gig this band are headlining is put together by the Attack + Defend guys under their Shape guise. They’re always interesting and often ace. The organisors also open the show and are well worth catching but this preview is for Flashguns. This young Brighton fourpiece, so young that they’re still in school, ably display the wiry energy and catchy choruses of a whole host of fellow indie upstarts but combine it with a more reflective and mature edge that they’ve no doubt developed through their obvious love of classic 80’s British indie, most notably The Smiths and The Cure. You can probably add Interpol to that list too. The advantage they have for me is that their singer doesn’t annoy the hell out of me (hello Morrissey), they sound older than their tender school uniformed years should reasonably allow and it’s this maturity and commitment to their craft that lifts them head and shoulders above many older indie also-rans and is sure to win them scores of new fans.