The Bathroom Crooners top the bill at The Box in Crewe

Aug 20 2009 Chester Chronicle

PROVOCATIVE pop from indie band, The Bathroom Crooners will be heading the latest cutting edge line-up at The Box in Crewe tomorrow. The Crooners appeared on the local music radar as an oddity at this year’s Volume Festival.

Frontman, Sam Buchanan, has been plying a trade in intelligent pop tunes across the North West with former bands The Blends and The Kids.

He said: “I had a side project called Sam Buchanan and The Bathroom Crooners before; it was a joke at first but it kind of stuck.”

Tracks such as Tandoori Girl display a deceptively deep appreciation of pop sensibilities, vaguely discernable from their list of influences, which range from the seminal Fleet Foxes to the lo-fi genius of The Fall.

Buchanan (vocals/keys), Siobhan Tarbuck (bass/sax), Kyle Tarbuck (guitar/bass), Paul Maddock (guitar), Dan Bennion (guitar/bass) and Andy Hunter (drums) formed in December.

Main support comes from Cheshire three-piece The Retrospective. Opening the show will be experimental alt-rockers Heart Of The Sun.

For tickets, visit the website www.theboxcrewe.co.uk.