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The Cost of a Grammy... Living in a Post-Shakey's Brother World...

Nov 06, 2009

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The world was bemused a couple of days back when Shakeys Brother let slip that they’d somehow scored two Grammy nominations despite being an unsigned pub band from Blackburn with a hundred myspace fans, who play to an average of about fifty people. Most bemusing perhaps was how they managed to get a nod for best pop vocal album despite not even having a single yet alone an album to their name.

Their story relating to the nominations has been a little here and there. In one account referring to a friend in America who submitted them on their behalf, to their myspace blog which says “We got intouch with a guy in America who loved the music” to their BBC Lancashire interview which says that someone from Big Noise contacted them after hearing their demos on myspace and signed them up before submitting them.

The irony comes in thick and heavy from their BBC interview where band member Phil Parker states “This is about music; not album

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