Sounds From The Junkshop #74 - The D4
"Turn up your nose, I guess you think you're outta my class..." - The D4 - Ladies' Man As we've discussed on SFTJ's past, if there was a benefit to the trust fund fuelled rise of bands like the Strokes, it's that the gap in the wall that suddenly opened managed to see a few genuinely good garage bands sneak through. And one of the areas which suddenly saw a lot of them spring up was Australasia where, similar to how the Saints had inadvertently piggybacked* on to the punk movement a generation before, several groups who'd been slugging it out on the bar circuit for a few years suddenly found themselves picking up legions of new fans in the UK and US. We've already discussed the Vines in this column but they were far from an isolated case as the likes of the Datsuns, Jet and our SFTJ subject today the D4 would all start picking up momentum around this time. * NB - I say that with no disrespect to the Saints, it's just that they'd been ki...