The Hoosiers

The Hoosiers – Sheffield Leadmill

In 2007 with several high-charting singles and a debut number-one album, it looked like The Hoosiers had found

Six months later, two biggish singles, both of them infuriatingly catchy earworms, helped push the newly released “The Trick to Life” album into the platinum zone.

The View, Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi, Editors and The Enemy had all topped the album charts in 2007 before The Hoosiers took their brand of oddpop to number one with their debut album The Trick To Life .

Their encore finishes up with a revitalising juxtaposition of fast numbers and slow melodies – and the pacing works fantastically well. They finish, obviously, on Goodbye Mr A and it’s clear from the shouts of “play Goodbye!” that this is what everybody has been waiting for. The Hoosiers deliver their signatu

Following their double platinum selling number one album The Trick to Life in 2007 the follow up The Illusion of Safety limped to number ten in the charts before dropping like a stone.

Everyone from police, presumably based on the song “Cops and Robbers” straight through to girls wearing brightly coloured knee socks, fairy wings and scribble on their faces (no reference to anything).