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Published: 26 July 2007

IT’S not often I find a new band that I love on first listen, but Dirty Hands are that band.
The twentysomething five-piece are an intellectual lot, all studying philosophy and French and such like at King’s College in the Strand.
You might expect them to croon about Nietzsche gloomily, or raise a musically theatric hand to their forehead as they ponder the meaning of life, but no.
To talk you through their demo Get on Yer Bike, Charlie, which caught my eye as I was dusting down my CD shelf, it starts off loud and off-kilter and carries on like that.
A blistering eulogy to teenage life, it describes the hapless Charlie as cycling to a club to pull his girl only to find someone else got in there first. Be quicker off the mark: rush out and buy it now.
Further inspection of their myspace page (www.myspace. com/dirtyhands music) proved more of the same. With not one but two write-ups from crazed fan John Kennedy from XFM, including a column in style-bible Dazed and Confused, Dirty Hands are set to get grubbier as they make their inevitable climb up the charts.

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