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Banger after banger on this record deal with the issues of the day: having no money, no emotional intelligence and no recognisable talent. Former teen sensations from small market town, civil parish, capital of the Peak District and home of the Pudding - Bakewell - The Hipshakes have been friends since before they can remember. They bought instruments at 15 and have been playing together ever since. Early efforts were snotty-nosed and short, brilliant and bratty. With advancing years their noses may have dried up but the hits haven't. Formed in 2001, their first slew of records and tours of Europe and America were unleashed between 2005 and 2008, calling in at South By Southwest and Gonerfest. 2014 unbelievably saw them tour the UK for the first time. On this record, they are a classic four piece combo of guitars, drums and bass: everyone writes songs and everyone sings them. Live, they are a ferociously exhilarating, mega-mondo smash-hit pop-fountain. They've shared the stage with the cream of the garage punk crop of the last ten years. The band are fans of the Swell Maps, Wire, Black Lips, Wreckless Eric, Soft Boys, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Love Triangle, Jay Reatard, Red Cords, Kinks, Nerves, MC5 and Fuzz, so if you can dig those bands you might like the Hipshakes too.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Art For Blind","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50493118808395,"sku":"388492","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"sounds-we-found","title":"Sounds We Found","description":"\u003cp\u003eYes, here's the long-lost second album by garage punk hit-machines The Hipshakes! Just over six years after it was recorded, finally a full release for Sounds We Found. It's the Hipshakes first attempt to record in actual Medium Fidelity. Played at super speed with their usual ultra-excellent song writing ability on show, life, death and how to party are all dissected, usually in under two minutes. 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