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2007 has been a truly amazing year for new bands. So far this year we have had debuts from The Klaxons, The Enemy,Scouting for Girls, Maccabees, Wombats as well as The Pigeon Dectective’s album “wait for me”. I saw the PD’s three months ago supporting the Rakes at the iTunes festival at the ICA and thought that they were brilliant. Fantastic catchy and radio friendly songs with an excellent live performance. Since July the band have been on the road for 8 weeks, released two singles as well as supporting their album. It’s quite unprecedented for a band in such a short space of time to sell out The Forum on three consecutive nights, the last time I can remember seeing a band doing a three night stint here less than 6 months after the release of their debut album was Oasis in 1993. A friend of mine who saw the band the previous night said that although it was a great gig at times it appeared at times that they were going through the motions. Whilst this might sound overly critical I think that the last few months has taken toll on them. I doubt that they are the sort of band to put their feet up however I think they will need a much deserved break in 2008 otherwise they may burn out.
Written by John Rahim