I've written about the influences of bands and musicians before. Every musician is influenced by one or more other musicians, conscious of unconscious. For instance by the music you heard at home when you where a kid. Those influences are not always very obvious, a little hidden in the sound and only recognisable by the expert. But sometimes the influences are very clear. This is only a problem when the difference between the original band and their followers is not clear anymore. I don't suppose that this will happen with The Ruling Class, but there will be no listener who won't think of The Stone Roses when hearing this international band from London.The foundation of The Ruling Class was laid in Stockholm, Sweden by Tomas Kubowicz (guitar, vocals) and Anton Lindberg (bass). They didn't succeed in finding musicians with the same taste in music in Sweden and that's why they moved to London. After their move the band was completed with the Italian drummer Alfonso Tammaro and Jonathan Sutcliffe (vocals) and Andrew Needle (rhythm guitar), both form the North of England. The debut from this young band was released by the renewed label Shelflife a week ago. Since some months this label releases special combinations of CD + 7" vinyl single packed in a cover designed by an artist. The CDEP +7" from The Ruling Class is called "Tour de Force" and contains 6 songs, 4 on the CDEP and 2 on the single. Half of these songs can be heard on MySpace and you can download one track. This psychedelic pop music sounds just as catching and attractive as the music of Ian Brown and friends some fifteen years ago.
>mp3: Flowers