East Lancashire Grammy nominees are now media darlings (From Lancashire Telegraph)

East Lancashire Grammy nominees are now media darlings

5:20pm Wednesday 25th November 2009

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A BAND from East Lancashire shortlisted for the Grammy awards has been at the centre of a media whirlwind since being featured in the Lancashire Telegraph.

Unsigned pop rockers Shakeys Brother have been thrust into the spotlight after we revealed that they had been picked out in two categories for next year’s American music ‘Oscars’.

Tomorrow the five-piece from Sabden and Burnley will perform at the Attic in Accrington.

And in tow at the tiny club will be a Channel Five crew, shooting the band in action for a forthcoming feature.

But the lads have become past masters now at small screen appearances, with the BBC and Sky News filming them recently.

And The Independent, Sun and The Guardian have championed them since their Telegraph debut.

Singer Mark Capstick said: “It’s been hectic since we first appeared in the paper.

"They have championed us because we’re an unsigned band who have got to the Grammys.

“We have been in the national papers and on Granada Reports and Sky.

“It has been brilliant, unbelievable really, and we have also received some record label attention.”

Film crews have been a regular fixture at their rehearsal room, the cellar of the old Victoria Rose shop in Slade Lane, Padiham.

Four of the band – Mark, guitarists Mark Smith and Phil Parker and drummer Sam Robinson – have day jobs and bassist Jimmy McNulty is a student.

The quintet is already negotiating time off and hoping to impress the Grammys ‘judges’, The Recording Academy.

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