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The strong delegate showing at In The City 2004 ensured healthy interest in a number of the acts playing at the unsigned showcases.
Tom Vek and Fear Of Music were among the new acts enjoying widespread acclaim from the A&R fraternity, with both being invited to play at this week's "best of ITC" gig at London's Barfly. The gig will also feature bands such as Towers Of London and The Paddingtons, who used their In The City gigs to build on strong A&R interest.
The Subways' manager Ben Kirby says the band's Monday night gig was a particular success. "They have already played at Glastonbury and Reading this year, but it definitely helped move things forward by playing ITC," he says.
Other buzz bands appearing at ITC included Irish six-piece Mainline, who presented a sturdy set of eight tracks which rattled between a host of disparate genres--an early Nineties "baggy" sound giving way to Seventies garage that took its lead from The Stooges and The Ramones. Similarly, New Rhodes gave A&R executives yet another chance to check out their sound, which has the potential to fit in with the Coldplay/Keane demographic.
Although the unsigned showcases have traditionally ...