This Could Be Texas by English Teacher

[Waterclaret]

Excellent debut album, charted at no 8 this week and has a number of Burnley ,Colne & Nelson references. Bank of Dave, pendle witches, festival of R&B, John Simm,Lee ingleby, and a full song about Pendle hill(sideboob).

Singer Lily Fontaine lived in Colne.

[Steve1956]

Just listened on Spotify great voice....quite like the song "you blister my paint"
Will give it a proper listen later
Sounds good though.

[Passing Clouds]

Top band. World’s Biggest Paving Slab. Colne?

[Waterclaret]

Yes.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/n ... hire-town/

[The Hung Juror]

Brilliant new band. Seeing them at the end of May at Gorilla in Manchester and then again in November at the Ritz.

[TheFamilyCat]

Haven't listened to the album yet but caught my ear when I heard the Pendle Witches line in World's Biggest Paving Slab on the radio.

I read that the singer was from a village near Burnley but nothing more specific than that.

Always good to hear local bands (or bands with local connections at least) doing well.

[what_no_pies]

Saw them a couple of weeks ago. Totally missed the question 'does anyone know where Colne is' but I was captivated generally.

[Steve1956]

Brilliant

[JohnDearyMe]

Just saw that this band won the Mercury Music Prize

[Ptangyangkipperbang]

Flicking through the channels last night dropped on the Mercury Prize show having not seen it for years left it on but soon got a little bored and my attention wavered and thought most the songs were rubbish to my older ears.But when English Teacher played it suddenly grabbed my attention and was pleased when they won I knew nothing about them but thought they sounded Northern.That would have been that for me until seeing this thread and I will buy the album the first time in many years by a new young band

[Tricky Trevor]

Never heard of them until I read they’d won the Mercury, normally won by a decent album.
Just had half an hour on youtube and I liked most of it, Paving Slab, Tears of My Life and Nearly Daffodils being my standouts. I’ll put it on my wishlist and wait for Xmas.

[ecc]

Just checked. Lily Fontaine was born in Huddersfield but was raised in Colne.

[fatboy47]

Meh.

Lots differ, obviously.

[Selby Claret]

Tried it

Didn't like it

Happy to be in the minority though and hope they do well

[AGENT_CLARET]

Excellent debut album, charted at no 8 this week and has a number of Burnley ,Colne & Nelson references. Bank of Dave, pendle witches, festival of R&B, John Simm,Lee ingleby, and a full song about Pendle hill(sideboob).

Singer Lily Fontaine lived in Colne.

The band is from dirty Leeds

[Dyched]

If you want a Burnley band check out The Goa Express. Very good debut they put out.

It’s Never Been Better
Small Talk
Good Luck Charm
Talking About Stuff
Prove It

Are all belters.

[Papabendi]

Don't understand why GE are not huge

[Dyched]

Don't understand why GE are not huge

Second that. When you see other bands getting big, multiple albums, festivals appearances with far less “big” songs it’s baffling.

Comes down to not being the type of band to play the “game”.