You're in the company of The Long Blondes tonight; things might seem familiar, but they will not be the same.   Full text...

Sheffield popstrels bring the sass and glamour to Planet Indie  Full text...

Sheffield's The Long Blondes are as sharp as the stilettos that three-fifths of them wear, as tight as the nipped-in waistband of singer Kate Jackson's habitual Edith Piaf get-up and as musically satisfying as a Siouxsie Sioux, Bryan Ferry, Patti Smith, Hazel O'Connor and Kathleen Hanna jam session in CBGBs circa 1965. The one-time Best Unsigned Band In The Country have come up trumps with a debut album brimming with whip-smart, post-riot-grrl attitude.   Full text...

Touted for a long time as the other great band to come out of Sheffield in the last few years, it was easy to forget that The Long Blondes actually made records. They appeared in style magazines, they won awards as the best unsigned band in Britain and The Guardian even named lead singer Kate Jackson as a style icon. Yet ask the average person to name a song by them, and they'd probably struggle.  Full text...

Someone to Drive You Home is a guitar-pop album, no doubt. It's twelve tracks of gloriously written pop music, played with guitars. It quite literally is as simple as that and in pop, simple = good. Consequently, The Long Blondes = good.  Full text...

The Blondes certainly seemed to fit the bill: rakish heirs to Sheffield's shabby chic, classy aspirants to the standards of Bacharach, articulate pop swots in a stage school world.  Full text...

The Long Blondes have been a chic name to drop for a while now. Their debut album proves why: jittery, slightly ramshackle indie pop with the odd tarnished disco rhythm, given class by the frontwoman Kate Jackson.  Full text...