MUSIC A to Z Challenge #Y Young knives and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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Here is my entry for @psos  A-Z music challenge, today i'm on bands or songs starting with the letter  #Y.
How do #hivers, so here we are the penultimate round of the A-Z music challenge it's been a long road and dug up some forgotten tunes of yesteryear, so what do I have in store for you today? To kick things off I bring you a band from Ashby-de-la-Zouch Leicestershire UK, described as  art-punk experimental rock, they launched their music career as The Ponyclub but had to drop the name as two other bands already used it. A three piece consisting of brothers  Henry Dartnall, Thomas (the house of lords) Dartnall no idea why that name and Oliver Askew.

They had good critical reviews after releasing their first mini album "the young knives are dead" and followed that up with a hit single and a popular second album "superabundance".

By the time they got round to their forth album they had decided to take control of their career and released that album via their website using crowd funding to pay the bills. They garnered further support by touring with Dirty Pretty Things, The Rakes and supporting the Kaiser Chiefs at Elland road stadium gig.

Young knives - "Here comes the rumour mill".





Next up from New York the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, another trio fronted by the slightly scary Karen O, this garage/art punk band had a meteoric rise to fame off the back of playing as the support act for The Strokes and The White Stripes on their respective US tours, not a bad start when you haven't released a album yet.

Their first studio album Fever to tell was a global hit selling 750,000 copies the video for the single "Y-Control" was directed by Spike Jonze and won awards, they followed up with 3 other successful albums and are currently on a hiatus but have played a few live gigs over the last few years. Having seen them live myself I think they are great performers and their style reminds me of 80's bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "maps" and because I can "Date with the night"



Chop chop that's your lot see you tomorrow for my last installment, until then stay safe folks!



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