North Shore band The Checks, who opened for REM in New Plymouth last year and Oasis in Australia have just finished recording theirdebut album. These guys are probably one of the first New Zealand bands whose CD I would actually buy.
The Checks were spotted by the editor of NME when he was out here for NZ Music Month a year or so ago. NME then took them on their New Music Tour in 2005 - which was being advertised while I was in the UK, which was quite surreal as we had used the Checks to open our 2005 Congress a week before I had left.
Ed the lead singer has incredible stage pressence - of the Mick Jagger kind, I rate them pretty highly.
Check out a sample of the new single Butter Boys at their MySpace page here. What You Heard is also worth a listen (pretty sure its there) this is probably their best single at the moment.
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