A good band writes good music but a great band writes good music and then you scratch the surface and there’s so much more to find out… Like Brother.” Perched in the corner of Sunderland boozer, The Smugglers, surrounded by pictures of local ‘celebrities’ and CDs of the rather pessimistically monikered The Pipe Dreams, it’s clear that Frankie & The Heartstrings certainly belong to the second camp of drummer, Dave Harper’s tongue-in-cheek manifesto. As well as crafting the kind of joyously infectious, lovesick pop that evokes The Smiths and the heyday of Postcard Records with glorious ease, scratch this band’s surface and you’ll find a group that reference Bukowski as much as British Sea Power, that are bringing back a bit of old-fashioned quirk to their art and that are possibly the funniest bunch we could hope to spend a windy day on the Northern coast with. “We always say every day, as a joke, that it’s the best day of our lives, but it does seem to be getting better. It’s ridiculous. I mean no-one gets to do this as an actual living…” ･･････

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