Detroit Social Club hit 2009 running with their second single Sunshine People, released on 30 March via the band’s own imprint Stranded Soldier, in collaboration with their new home, Fiction Records.

The Newcastle-based six-piece are led by singer/songwriter/guitarist/visionary David Burn, orchestrating an anarchic groove-based evolution of 1970s New York punk, 80s post-rock and 90s Detroit garage. Buzz is something of a loaded term in the music industry, one best used with caution. But to say things have happened ridiculously quickly for Newcastle

They might recently have been anointed by Kasabian’s Tom Meighan as the new saviours of British guitar music, but it was actually well over a year ago that chief direction former David Burn started writing the songs alone in his studio/practice room The Garage that would, almost accidentally, set tongues wagging hastily in his native North East.

It was never even Burn’s intention to bring them to a wider audience, initially, though that’s the inevitable path Detroit Social Club now treads. Songs like already traditional set closer ‘Sunshine People’ and ‘Rivers and Rainbows’ demand it. And when those early, self-produced demos were posted to a mysterious, faceless My Space page, people began bandying around adjectives like ‘genius’ and ‘prophet’. But there was no band then, and the scuzzy, fuzzy and, truth be told, refreshingly fantastic nature of the material was crying out for it to be played live.

So Detroit Social Club became a band. In came a couple of long term associates, the rest musicians drawn from acts who practiced in the other rooms of Burn’s Garage complex. That their titanic live show came together so quickly afterwards should be no surprise - not only did they all know each from many shared years on the Newcastle gigging scene, they’d also picked up a thing or two, or several, about playing along the way.

That was May 2008, and in the four months since they’ve assembled their self-released double A debut single with help from Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys/Foals), had its AA side played by Zane Lowe two weeks after it was written and turned hundreds away from a sold-out show at hometown venue The Cluny. In that sense, the ‘buzz’ is certainly building.

Right now, though, for Detroit Social Club such achievements feel like the start of something far greater than the feel of the glare from a fleeting spotlight. A list of influences could easily encompass bands as great and diverse as The Verve, Gomez, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Tamla Motown, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Beck and The Velvet Underground, but what’s more impressive is that, more than any of those, it’s the ideal of what Detroit Social Club could be that fuels this nascent fire. “This is our chance,” says Burn. “Things are going to change, but this is what we’ve dreamed of since we first picked up guitars ten years ago.”

The band surged into public view in a fortnight in late 2008 that began with two shows in as many hours at Manchester’s In The City, and ended with a riotous headline performance at the Best of ITC show at the Camden Barfly on the day they self-released acclaimed debut single Rivers and Rainbows. In between was a tour of northern Britain, selling handmade CDs and voraciously gathering new Club members en route. Stellar supports with Primal Scream, Futureheads and Razorlight followed.

Detroit Social Club returned to the studio in early 2009 and the fruits of those sessions can be heard imminently with the release of Sunshine People and its sister track Cause And Consequence (the term b-side does not apply). Further listening come in the form of another new track, Forever Wonderland – Live, available free from the band’s website. Their debut album is currently being recorded.

Detroit Social Club played their first tour of 2009. They hit the road in March and April, with support from Screaming Lights, Sound of Guns, Bicycle Thieves and Night of Sevens, if you missed that, then don’t be a fool and make the mistake twice, look out for new tour dates soon…

Detroit Social Club are: David Burn (vocals/guitar/bass), Johnny Bond (guitar/sitar), David Welsh (guitar), Dale Knight (keys/guitar/bass), Chris McCourtie (bass/guitars), David Green (drums/percussion)

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