Liam Creamer used to front one of South Yorkshire's heaviest and most wilfully complicated bands. Now he sings with piano-led future stars Skeletons alongside two other fifths of previous outfit thisGIRL looking like they've never bludgeoned an audie
nce in their life.
"That was more about being as aggressive and having as many weird time signatures in two minutes as possible to mess with people's heads," he says of the once highly-touted Rotherham/Sheffield rockers.
Cock an ear to their MySpace page (Oh Brother, Oh Sister is pure treasure) or head for The Harley tomorrow for the Sheffield venue's 2Poor2Pitch festival and you'll likely agree they are achieving the latter and then some.
Together less than a year, Skeletons evolved when the members of thisGIRL decided to break from the band, some from music in general.
"We'd been making music for eight years. People went off to uni or just chilled out. But when we got jamming again we decided we wanted to make music again."
They brought in Matt the keyboard player having met him DJing hip hop and "weird electronic stuff" at Corporation while Chris had been involved in other projects with the lads. Some are still ongoing, such as Seven Black Tentacles, Ryan's Guns 'n Roses tribute band and Sholay, who play The Harley on Saturday.
Liam says the band tested its line-up by jamming Minnie Riperton's Les Fleurs and went on from there. "It was the only song we all knew."
It was also one that proved the thisGIRL lads had truly moved on.
Eleven tracks in Skeletons are still consolidating their stomping blues/rock/swing melee. London likes them and on Leeds Festival's unsigned stage they were as entertaining and exciting as anything else on offer.
"We feel a little more confident with ourselves to gain exposure which is important - when you are exposed to people you are open to judgement," says Liam, who is finally thinking of losing the knitted headwear that has followed him from thisGIRL.
"I went for a drastic haircut. That's the only reason that survives."
Whatever the image Skeletons will be a highlight of 2Poor2Pitch, which starts tomorrow with more than 30 bands featuring during the weekend. Also in there are Detroit Social Scene, Playground Mafia, Vegas Child, Paddy Orange, Future Of The Left, and Lemon Tear Gas among others.
See our gig guide tomorrow .
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