The Pigeon Detectives; Romantic Type (26/02/07 Dancetotheradio)
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A rumbling post-mod and disco sounding snippet sees this Matt Bowman lead quartet use twining guitars, dialogue vocals and lyrical snap with smashing percussion to say to the likes of Milburn, Rakes and The Paddingtons; “Is there room for one more?â€. Typical self confident, stammering vocals and lyrics ride highly on the crest of thrusting...
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The Pigeon Detectives; Everybody Wants Me (Dance To The Radio 28/07/2008)
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With their first single, ‘This Is An Emergency’ from their second album, rnLeeds’ catchy stompers The Pigeon Detectives, failed to capture the rnimagination of listeners, as it barely limped away from their first rnalbum sound and had none of its oomph.rnrnBut now, with ‘Everybody Wants Me’, rhythm increases and Mat...
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The Pigeon Detectives with support from The Virgins (Manchester Academy 04/12/2008)
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There was plenty of overtime available at the old rumour mill before
this gig, due to a few no shows earlier on in the tour tongues are
wagging about the Mat Bowman fronted, The Pigeon Detectives. Given their
love of their home city of Leeds, they wouldn’t think twice about
ditching a gig in their rival city, would they? However, doubts are...
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The Pigeon Detectives; Say It Like You Mean It (Dancetotheradio, 20/10/2008)
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Now enshrined as rollicking indie, harmony twirling royalty in the minds rnof modern musos, Matt Bowman and crew continue to find it easy to carve rnout a hook laden groove. They are now on their third single from second rnalbum, ‘Emergency’ that took a little longer than their strutting, rnswaggering gem concealing debut to settle a few...
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