Crosbi |
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There are towns in the United Kingdom known for their rock'n'roll and there are towns that are not, and prior to now, Wrexham has fallen into the latter camp. As with many of Britain's forgotten provinces, though, sometimes the most interesting things happen far from the spotlight's glare. The fastest growing town in Britain, Wrexham is the buffer between the easterly metropolises of Liverpool and Manchester, and the mountainous wilds of Northern Wales: a undiscovered outpost, home to a new generation of young, ambitious songwriters doing things their way. Premier among these are Crosbi. |
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Crosbi are family, literally, formed around the nucleus of two sets of brothers: magnetic, tousle-haired frontman Andy Jones and his brother
Steve on lead guitar; siblings-in-percussion Ben and Simon Jones, the former holding the fort on drums, the latter switching between keyboard
and a rack of congas; and the quintet is completed by long-time friend Jamie Owens, on bass. Formed in 2003, the band have evolved at a
frightening speed, aided by the fact that when you're dealing with your brother, nothing's off limits: "If you think that guitar part is shit,
you say it's shit," says Andy, of Crosbi's brutal rehearsal regime. "Because we all go back so far, there's no bullshit, no beating around the bush.
Jamie's had to get a tough skin really fast. But it means we've done in months what other bands do in years."
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and Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Porcupine':
"'Porcupine', that's the weird one that people tell you not to listen to," explains Andy. "But it's one of my favourite albums.
You know, we want to come out on stage and get people's heads nodding. But we also want to change part of their brains as well". |
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