Tom: Who?
Tim: Lawson, the UK boyband that somehow always get overlooked when One Direction and The Wanted are mentioned. Even though they have proper guitars.
Tim: I say ‘somehow’, it’s because Radio 1 have never ever playlisted them, and that is obviously definitely not because they’re managed by the owner of direct competitor Capital FM.
Tom: Interesting how that works, isn’t it? If only INJU5TICE had gotten themselves a slot at the Jingle Bell Ball.
Tim: Two and a half years on, and we’re still talking about them. That’s got to count for something, surely?
Tom: Whoever said “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” had never heard INJU5TICE.
Tim: Aaanyway, despite Radio 1’s best efforts, Lawson have still got three out of three singles in the top 10, and are presumably hoping to keep that up. And this will probably manage it.
I say that – it’s good and I like it, but I’ve listened to it five times in a row and still I can’t really think of much to say about it. Which is a shame, given the point of this site, but it’s probably just sort of the whole ‘more of the same’ that comes around every now and again.
Tom: Now, see, I disagree – when you said “boyband”, this isn’t what I had in mind. It’s heavier than most tracks of its kind, and while – yes – it is basically just “The Wanted Only Playing Their Own Instruments”, it’s still pretty damn good.
Tim: Oh yes – ‘more of the same’ isn’t a bad thing. And while they’re marketed as a boyband they’re quite a way from One Direction in terms of, well, pretty much everything. This has got a nice ‘woooahh-ooahh’ bit in the middle eight that seems to be everywhere (including, now I think about it, most One Direction tracks), and it’s generally quite enthusiastic, and there’s fire in the video and all that which is fun, and, oh, well it seems I have got stuff to say. Hooray.