Toy Horses - Interrupt

Welsh band Toy Horses are the favourite indie band of Stephen Fry.  Honestly!  Look it up.  Which come to think of it, could either be a blessing or a curse.  Anyway, I love this little song called Interrupt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj-fVPcdako
and it was a huge disappointment to me that it didn't appear to catch hold of the nation in the way it should have done.  It's great pop in the same way that The Feeling produce great pop.  Everything works well together from the opening strings, through the gentle verse that starts quietly then builds slowly, ending at a gem of a chorus that is so catchy that you will be singing it all day after just one listening.

Toy Horses are that rarest of things - a father and son band (step father to be precise), Tom Williams and Adam Franklin.  “We’re just like mates, we’re not like father and son. We have forged a bond that has transcended the generation gap through a love of music," says Tom (the dad).  “Our shared crossover point is The Beatles, however while Adam will veer more towards The Libertines I head in the direction of ELO and Madness.”  (Any fan of ELO is fine by me... as long as it's early ELO that is.)  Tom incidentally also works with Adam in their daytime job – running an electronic accessories
business.

In one of those lucky breaks most of us can only dream about, Ken Coomer, former drummer with Wilco, discovered Toy Horses' MySpace site, liked what he heard and emailed the band, inviting them to write songs with him in America.  So of course they went, and ended up playing with some great session musicians such as Tim Marks and Jim Bogois in two of Nashville's legendary recording studios.

The resulting album, also called Toy Horses, is out now.