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By Jaimie Hodgson

Posted on 07/03/09 at 01:41:06 pm

In New Jersey the ‘working Joe’ pumps ‘gas’ into gargantuan metal beasts at dusty side-road stations, packs processed cheese in vast, vacant factories, or watches thousands of pills fill vessels on endless conveyer belts… In their spare time they take their kids to ‘Little League’, sup Bud Light, watch the Super Bowl and wear lots of stone-washed blue denim and gingham. I think.

In Stockton on Tees, the ‘grafter’ welds ships together with big leathery paws, smelts steel, or processes violent and harmful industrial chemicals. In their spare time they watch depressing football teams that always lose, drink cloudy bitter, try to dodge getting bottled/glassed as the pubs kick out, and erm, other stuff that sounds like it came out of a Ken Loach film.


Young Rebel Set (Blood, sweat and tears not pictured)

The comparison between these two incredibly accurate and painstakingly undertaken case studies should go some way to explaining the intricacies of how an appropriation of Bruce Springsteen’s everyman rock’n’roll by a gang of heart-on-sleeve, feet-on-ground lads from north east England might pan out.

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These guys are called the Young Rebel Set, this song is called ‘Won’t Get Up Again’ (Click on track name to download).

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newed [Visitor] //July 3 2009 at 15:20
saw this lot a few months ago at a gig in manchester, thought they were mega. ace live band. all the best fellas..
Julio [Visitor] //July 3 2009 at 15:28
Managed to write all of that without actually saying anything - good work.
Joey Richards [Visitor] //July 3 2009 at 20:48
absolutely quality band. cant stop listening to their tunes. hopefully they'll live up to expectations at waterrats on tuesday. jr
mac [Visitor] //July 4 2009 at 20:40
Brilliant!
Jack [Visitor] //July 5 2009 at 17:34
who ever said lazy pointless stereotyping wasn't cool any more?
Alex Moreton [Visitor] //July 6 2009 at 02:30
What the hell are you on about Jaime Hodgson?? get to some relevance if you can't enchant or derive abstract meaning to quite the opposite topic in question.peace
Eccie [Visitor] //July 6 2009 at 09:48
www.myspace.com/khaliqmusiq
jasmine [Visitor] //July 6 2009 at 14:20
nice like the song lol :)
Fan! [Visitor] //July 6 2009 at 20:53
Love it
mary poppers [Visitor] //July 7 2009 at 17:48
these guys are fantastic! i'm looking forward to seein them live
[Visitor] //July 8 2009 at 20:20
If only Stockton were as nice as you make it sound...
dfgdfgdfg [Visitor] //July 8 2009 at 21:42
good
d rascal [Visitor] //July 8 2009 at 21:48
saw these guys recently in liverpool. gave them a treat on the way home. love thier track national geographical
paul1 [Visitor] //July 9 2009 at 10:07
these are class thanks nme
JA [Visitor] //July 10 2009 at 11:47
Fake working class middle of the road snooze-a-thon
Born in Stockton [Visitor] //July 12 2009 at 11:23
YRS live.. none better, their tunes tell stories we can all relate to on one level or another. Catchy tunes and some good rifts, seen the lads live many times many times to come, looking forward to the Stockton Riverside Festival in August, a free gig - can it get any better? !?!?! Roll on the single..
No1 Fan! [Visitor] //July 13 2009 at 13:57
These guys are worth going to see if ya get the chance they're great live, they put their heart and soul into their music i'm sure they'll go far!
Paul Spice [Visitor] //July 14 2009 at 13:47
Just heard a YRS tune of Zane Lowe, absolute belter! P.S.
fan* [Visitor] //July 27 2009 at 14:16
Good music, Great Band what more can i say?
summer [Visitor] //July 27 2009 at 14:25
Great Music love it! all the best with single release on August 3rd !

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