BEAR in mind they've been playing just about everywhere from hen parties to school assemblies and shopping centres and tonight's Plug show by these feisty pop campaigners could seem rather ordinary.
Not much chance of that, though, as the Dolly Rockers – a self-confessed antidote to the down times – are aiming to make the credit crunch seem like a memory.
One highbrow critic declared of the trio: "These Primark poppettes sound like what might happen if Alex Turner were put in charge of the next Girls Aloud album."
This fizzy bundle of nu-girl power comes to Matilda Street ahead of performing at a string of Butlins camps – so determined are they to promote their debut single Gold Digger on July 27.
With wonky, brash pop doused in electro effects and shamelessly plundering the past, the trio of 20-year-olds comprise two northern lasses – Yorkshire's Sophie and lairy Brooke – plus southerner Lucie.
"I loved Blur and Pulp when I was younger," says Lucie. "At the time it was called 'indie', but it really was just pop music."
Throw in sharp lyrics, sometimes aimed at WAGs, Z-list celebs and over-tanned 'orange girls,' and you've a Spice Girls prospect for the late noughties.
"We don't feel we have much in common with manufactured girl bands. Pop music to us is Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen, Mark Ronson," says Sophie, while Brooke adds: "I hate bands that are just clones or puppets, who do what they're told. I like bands that are outspoken."
So forget ballads and roll on tracks about domestic abuse and falling for married men, all with bolshy Britishness.
Sophie's background includes attending one of the roughest schools in Leeds while Lucie went to a posh boarding school only to be excluded at 14 for passing out in assembly. "It was from the night before, so technically I wasn't drunk at school," she says.
"We write songs about the things that happen to us and the things we talk about. Our songs aren't about love, more about snogging.
"And we sing in our own accents because we're singing about our own lives. We don't want to be celebrities, it's meaningless."
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