The Wind-Up Birds
From: Leeds, United Kingdom
If there was any justice in the world then Yorkshire terriers The Wind-Up Birds (Literate Rock and Bird Maniax) would be a fixture on the obligatory list of bands for 2011. Unfortunately it’s not going to happen because the Wind-Up Birds are a little too obtuse, a little too unusual, a little too caustic for the sensitive palates of today...
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They didn’t really give us much more information than that, which is a shame; I actually quite like the tracks.
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Read the review of the gig here.
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