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Abandoning a career as a lower league Scottish footballer with Falkirk, East
Fife and Queen's Park, James Allan's heart-on-sleeve working class pain and love
of 1960s girl groups attracted the attention of record mogul Alan McGee in 2006
and the music press was soon swooning to the Spectoresque Wall of Sound mixed
with Elvis croons and strident feedback. Allan's barbed ode to his absent father
on single Daddy's Gone introduced the band as an emotive force before Geraldine
melted the hearts of a wider audience. Building an adoring live following by
headlining the NME Awards Tour, ...
