Black Country band promote debut singleISOLATED Atoms, a Black Country outfit strongly tipped to maintain
the current strike-rate of Midlands-based groups, play Coventry Kasbah
on Sunday as part of a tour to promote their debut single.
Tell
Me What I Want / Here We Go, the first fruits of their deal with
Weekender Records, was released on Monday on vinyl and digital download
only and provides a good indication of the band’s style.
Formed
in February 2008, Isolated Atoms – Grant Leon Ashman (vocals), Mark
Neat (guitar), Jake Osei-Tutu (drums) and David Davies (synth/bass) –
take their name from a track on Joy Division’s Closer album and also
acknowledge New Order and Depeche Mode as major influences.
New
Order’s Peter Hook has signed up to produce their next single, The
Truth, in Manchester at the end of the month and another high-profile
member of their fan club is Alan McGee, who recruited them to play a
set at his ‘Death Disco’ night in London.
That led to a
storming display at the prestigious Koko in Camden, where they
recruited a management team and an agent, and the rest, they hope, is
history in the making ...