Bromheads Jacket

From the Sheffield stable come Bromhead’s Jacket. It could be 1977, Yorkshiremen with a southern accent, a latter day Buzzcocks perhaps?

'What Ifs & Maybes’ is the follow up to 'Lesley Parlafitt’ from their debut album 'Dits From The Commuter Belt.’ Although not the album’s best track, it is definite single material.

The muscular hook drags you in. The falsetto 'ooh ooh,’ chorus contrasts with the stop start bruising riffs. The result is a two-minute cacophony populated with incisive wordplay.

'Maybe I’d have got in with the King and maybe he’d have took me under his wing and maybe that night I’d have gone with him and we’d ended up as cellmates in Belmarsh Prison,’ (For Elvis see Pete Doherty.) It’s simple and punchy like an old punk poem.

Bromhead’s Jacket’s account of everyday life is nothing new. At times you could be listening to the Angelic Upstarts. Their strength is in mixing that raw energy with pertinent observations. Tim’s breaking voice tripping the lyrics over the tune like a stream of consciousness lifts this song far above the work of other young pretenders to the Arctic Monkey crown.