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Sometimes you’ll be at a gig and see a band that you’ve never heard of before, but who’s performance irrevocably changes your musical life after that. Such was when Music Towers caught The Vigours in Camden back in March. When it came to booking our first ever Weekender, getting this London four-piece on the bill was a no-brainer. With mere hours before the even kicks off, we caught up with drummer, Mat Vigour, and tried to crack juts what is it about The Vigours that is so damn addictive…

What do you think it is about you that has generated such a buzz? Everything I read and hear about you seems positive.

“We say please and thank you and, without wanting to sound poncey, we concentrate on what we think is important, writing good songs and playing them with passion.”

Much of the commotion whipped up by the band stems from their live shows, which amongst other things contain “Singalong melodies guitars, synths, harmonies, some olde englishe choral weirdness, some rave piano, a strutting-guitar hero, a synth-legend in the making the making, groove-ridden bass, a gurning wild-eyed-blurred-armed drummist and a whole bunch of people stomping and bumping. Hopefully you can expect a whole lot of fun.”

He’s not wrong - even interweb scorn-merchants, Holy Moly, love The Vigours, and they pretty much hate everything. By giving the band official stamp of approval, which puts you alongside "Not going to Glastonbury and drowning in mud", “peanut butter chunky KitKats” and “Freddie Flintoff when he got drunk on a pedalo”. How does it feel to be in such esteemed company?

“Glad that the bribery worked… Actually, it's quite an honour to be one of the only bands ever to receive HM approval. We'll just have to make it up to him by behaving in an appropriately misappropriate way, therefore giving him plenty to write about!”

But it’s not just superb chocolate bars and professional sportsmen’s mishaps that the band has been compared to – musically people have levelled comparisons at them with The Only Ones, The Beat, Cheap Trick and The Who – esteemed company indeed. Do you think a) those are accurate comparisons, and b) do comparisons like that add pressure on you guys to deliver?

“We seem to get compared to everyone; I think people pick out the influences that they like. As for pressure, we want to be a great band, one of THE great bands in fact so bring it on!”