...they’re not supposed to form bands purely for the fun of being in a band; they’re not supposed to invoke Daft Punk, Liars and Henry Rollins when attempting to describe their sound… and they’re probably not supposed to release debut singles that defy ready-made catch-all generic description. But Pull Tiger Tail aren’t interested in what they’re supposed to do. That’s why they call themselves Pull Tiger Tail. Pull Tiger Tail are Marcus (lead vocals / guitar / keys) Jack (drums / backing vocals) and Davo (bass / backing vocals / keys / megaphone), three 23-year-old Londonees who grew up together in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Having been in various bands together before - sometimes including members of Klaxons, their housemates at their student digs in New Cross – the seeds of Pull Tiger Tail were actually sown on a trip across America they took last year - the experience of travelling across America together on a faux-tour gave them the resolve to form their band, for real this time. Live, the heaviness is even more apparent – thanks to Jack’s appropriately thunderous percussion, the band describe their performances as “an arms race” – with Davo turning up his bass to keep up with Jack, Marcus in turn upping the volume on his guitar… and so forth. The band freely admit to a slightly ramshackle approach to their live sets – with bits of tape keeping the keyboards together, and on occasion employed to play a bass note on the keyboard whilst the guitar is tended to… and that’s exactly why the fun they’re having translates so readily to audiences – even if, apparently, it’s not supposed to work like that. “Bugger us if their melodic crash-bang-wallop pop isn’t set to be the sound of the summer” – NME