
Looking to build on the critical acclaim received for their first EP 'When We Were 17' , Sheffield's Dead Like Harry release their eagerly anticipated debut album 'Know The Joy Of Good Living' through The Label Records on Monday April 26, 2010. Dead Like Harry has successfully combined a soulful Americana rock sound (that tips its hat firmly in the direction of Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band ) with an English pop dynamic to produce a joyous and heartfelt celebration of honest and romantic song-writing. [...]

I'm currently living in Sheffield, UK, home to a disproportionate number of massive musical successes for a city of about 500,000 people. Joe Cocker, Def Leppard, the Human League, Tony (I don't care about the route to Amarillo) Christie, Pulp, Richard Hawley and the Arctic Monkeys have all come from this part of South Yorkshire (Christie is actually from Conisbrough, but close enough). In addition to these big icons, the city is home to a thriving local music scene, with talented bands who haven't got the recognition they deserve, and excellent music venues to hear live music. The success of [...]

Other writers have described Dead Like Harry as being "intricate" and having "music diversity" as well as producing a "well crafted, grown up... sound of pop". They have a sound that, despite the various instruments involved, seems to come from the keyboard. Whether it is written on the keyboard first I don't know but it's got that feel. As a man who has enjoyed his fair share of keyboard led bands in the past that is no bad thing. Sam (man) and Alice's (woman) vocals remind me of Deacon Blue and that describes their [...]