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Saturday, January 28, 2006 

Fratellis

>> Liquid Rooms
>> Edinburgh

So who are The Fratellis? Surely they are just a Glaswegian 3-piece band jumping on Franz Ferdiands’ bandwagon and playing edgy-spiky-art-school-music. Well the answer is clearly yes....no....well....yes...well....NO.

At times the band do sound like Franz but on speed, at other times its like the sun-drenched Beach Boys and then they flip it into the musical equivalent of Brian Wilsons head. KKKKKKYSOOOOOM kkkdaaammm kkkkkkdasshhhh.

And now its spiky Futureheads-Esq guitar funk, which is followed by; yes you didn’t guess it... bluesy, country, folk music. Aha it’s Kings of Leon.
In fact the band are none of the above, they are The Fratellis - they are, what can only be described as, Bluesy-SEX-FUNK. Franz made music to make girls dance to, the Fratellis make music to make them get down and dirty on the dancefloor.

The band have caused a stir among record companies all dashing to get a piece of the them, and quite rightly so. The Fratellis sound is fresh and exciting and they are a band certain to ‘make it big’, or whatever you kids are saying these days.

>> Jamie Crossan