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Shakeys, who?

Source: The Guardian

Nov 04, 2009

Summary

Indie band from Burnley are nominated for the Grammys. Hoax or hype?

It sounds utterly improbable: an indie band from Burnley called Shakeys Brother have, ahead of any official announcement, revealed that they have been nominated twice for the 52nd annual Grammy awards this January.

Shakeys who? Precisely. The Lancashire five-piece with the cavalier attitude towards the floating apostrophe have apparently been toiling away for 12 months without anyone in the British music press picking up on them, and creating little or no buzz in blog circles.

And yet here they apparently are, inexplicably picked by the 7,000 members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Naras) to go through to the next stage of the selection process for the Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals awards. Last year Duffy and Coldplay won in these categories. At the 2010 Grammys, they are rumoured to be up against the likes of Seal, Keane and Il Divo. Given such dismal competition, they could do well.

Do they deserve to? Frankly, no. Their

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