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747s touch down at the Borderline
PREVIEW : 747s
The Borderline
by Anh Nguyen
IF you were wondering who The Kooks and the Arctic Monkeys are plugging, look no further than the 747s.
No, not the booming jet engines of the airbus as it screeches down one of Heathrow’s runways but a group of pan-European former buskers, the 747s are an intrinsically wandering band.
Starting in Dublin, songwriters Oisin Leech and Ned Crowther travelled round the continent picking up band members and influences, including jazz, reggae, soul, show tunes, indie, punk, along the way.
As if they didn’t have a colourful enough background already, back in 2002 they made Italian headlines for all the wrong reasons, although it did help them with their band name.
During a flight from Naples, they sparked an emergency landing in Rome on a particularly sensitive date – September 11 – when they took their petrol-powered generator onto their flight to Dublin.
The band, who recently toured with American supergroup The Strokes and have already racked up a Myspace fan base in the thousands, released their debut album, Zampano, in September 2006 with Islington’s Ark Recordings.
Expect an eclectic slice of musicality when they land (groan) at The Borderline on January 23 for their biggest headlining show yet.
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