Blog: Not on the Guest List

The first time I saw the Rakes was at the O2 Wireless festival. Well, kind of. I didn't go, but apparently they did (as they played a set and all), and I made the voyage to the living room to turn on Channel 4-not for the bands, but for the lovely host Simon Amstell . Amongst the expected awkwardness of all of Simon's interviews, they aired the Rakes' performing '22 Grand Job' and I watched delighted in the perceived neurosis of frontman Alan Donohoe. Nothing by them had excited me before, but their live show [...]

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