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Those who recall the period when Oasis burst on to the British music scene in 1994 will remember just why the Gallagher brothers were so compelling to a young generation of music fans.

Their appeal wasn't only thanks to the rough-carved anthems destined for their debut album, Definitely Maybe, as much as it was down to their frank and often hilarious straight talking.

While Liam offered endless self-assurance and Noel chipped in with an acutely dry wit, the pair could speak about life and music in a way their fans related to and agreed with. The pair had similarly candid spiritual forebears such as John Lennon, John Lydon, Morrissey and Ian Brown to look up to, but those dawning days of Britpop were the last in which music fans had such divisively opinionated and unafraid heroes of their own to idolise. Nowadays most bands are merely affable, or worse, sound like living extensions of their label's marketing department.

Until now. The "Reverend" Jon McClure hails from Sheffield, and his band, The Makers, combine the rabble-rousing electro-rock squall of Kasabian and Primal Scream with the same intelligent lyrical narrative which informs Arctic Monkeys' and The Streets' best work.

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Source: www.living.scotsman.com

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