Artist: Sixty Watt Bayonets

Sixty Watt Bayonets From: Reading / Kingston, United Kingdom Sixty Watt Bayonets come storming out of Reading with 'I Want To Be Your Girlfriend' a refreshing blast of old school new wave. Clocking in at just over two minutes, mathematically proven to be the perfect length for a single, it's got more energy than a Duracell bunny convention. It sounds like someone stapled Beth Ditto's lungs to the best bits of The [...]

• Sixty Watt Bayonets - I Wish I Was Your Girlfriend

Following last year's acclaimed debut mini-album Pounding Hearts Fighting Words , all-girl UK indie-punks S ixty Watt Bayonets returned this summer with follow-up single I Wish I Was Your Girlfriend . It is pure foot-stomping disco-punk with hi-energy shimmy and a skewed breakdown near its peak to ensure these two minutes are packed with everything you need from such barbed guitar horseplay. It is the band at their tambourine-swinging surf-pop best, building from the toe-tapping verse through a bridge of the purest pop gold up to a lofty chorus of oozed ooos. Visit [...]

• Sixty Watt Bayonets - I Wish I Was Your Girlfriend