The Bluetones - Expecting To Fly (25th Anniversary Edition)Hailing from Heston in West London, The Bluetones (Scott Morriss bass, Eds Chesters drums, Adam Devlin guitars, and Mark Morriss vocals) arrived on the scene in 1995 with their debut single Are You Blue Or Are You Blind?. They followed this up with Bluetonic and then Slight Return, which reached # 2 on the UK singles chart, both featured on this album. The debut album Expecting To Fly was released in February 1996, and went straight to # 1, and also

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Their feral Celtic punk is influenced by industrial groups like Einsturzende Neubaten

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Imagine the shock people had thinking they had The Jean Genie when all they had was Uncle Arthur and Little Bombardier

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and reckons with the life that gets lived when you put off the small and inevitable maintenance in favor of something more present

Over the past few years Sleaford Mods have become one of the most intractable British pop stories