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For any copyright, please send me a message. They were once hailed as Britain's Best new Band by the NME and the subject of a £1million record label bidding war. Birmingham band The Twang set the music scene alight in 2007 with their anarchic, booze-soaked gigs up and down the country. Their debut album Love It When I Feel Like, including the singles Wide Awake and Either Way, charted at Number Three - paving the way for a triumphant show headlining Glastonbury's John Peel stage. Three more albums followed after their debut but despite a loyal fan following, the band never quite hit their former heights. But now with a new team around them – and cracking new fifth album If Confronted Just Go Mad out now -– frontman Phil Etheridge and bassist Jon Watkin are striving to reclaim their place in the sun once more. “We're always going to look at someone like Kasabian and go, 'How the f*** are they so big and we're not?'” Phil laughs. “You're always going to have that bit of jealousy but I say fair play. They've gone and done it, haven't they? They've reached the other side. They've reached the promised land where they've got a f****** good career now and they can go and headline festivals for the next 10 years probably. But we're not moaning, because there are bands that would have done anything to be in our position.” So what was it like going from labouring on building sites in their 20s to being touted as the saviour of British music. “I went from f****** going to work every day to being A List on Radio One and the front of the NME, all within the space of three months,” Jon says. “I remember getting on the tour bus on the first tour, in the van, and saying, 'F****** hell, I've just had a ding-dong with the missus.' And the tour manager was like, "Just tell her you'll see her in a couple of years." Phil says the hype around the band didn't affect him. Instead, he threw himself head-first into the rock and roll lifestyle “I didn't find it difficult to deal with, because I didn't care,” he laughs. “I was just f****** drunk and just running round. I'd just been given a s***load of money. I could buy whatever coat I wanted. I was happy as f***.” But he says he noticed the music press slowly turn against them, unlike his contemporaries The Libertines, fronted by Pete Doherty who famously dated Kate Moss. “I didn't give them what they want. I didn't become a smackhead. I didn't get locked up. I didn't start dating a model in London. There was no real story like that. I was just in a band having fun. They'd have been happy if I'd have turned into a complete mess, but that's not what happened.” Still the band still partied with the best of them “I remember reading a quote saying, 'The Twang make Shaun Ryder
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