Claudia writes:

In yesterday's "Independent On Sunday" there was a live review of a new London band called The Boyfriends which made a number of detailed references to Morrissey. It's been transcribed and put in the news section of The Boyfriends' website.

Excerpt:

Another reference is The Smiths, of whom Wallace is clearly (sometimes too clearly) a fan: a couplet like "A life spent absorbed in the printed word/ Is simply no good for your mental health" ("No Tomorrow") is inevitably reminiscent of Morrissey's "throw your homework onto the fire" and "there's more to life than books, you know". Indeed, singing in a voice an octave below his natural register (which cracks once or twice), the similarities positively scream at you.

But Wallace also shares Morrissey's onstage self-confidence. A cocky wink here, a hand wave there (but never a smile), he rocks casually on his heels as he threatens, "Holed up here in my room plotting bloody revenge/ I have a plan for you to meet a nasty end" ("Humour Me"), throwing in a slit-throat gesture for good measure. "It's not that I lack self-esteem," he sings tellingly. "It's that it is SO HIGH I cannot understand why I am still on my own..."

Simon Price