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ONE NIGHT ONLYS DEBUT ALBUM Started a Fire
Release date: 4th of February 2008 Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
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Album review:
If you're going for pop-rock gold-plating, radio airplay and slot or two sound-tracking Hollyoaks' opening sequences, you want to make a beeline for the big hitters when sieving through your influence list.
So North Yorkshire four-piece One Night Only pay little heed to their surroundings and avoid coming out the other side just sounding like the Pigeon Detectives—-though there's certainly a hint of their unapologetically chipper anthem chasing, it's in the county's musical blood by now.
Drafting in keyboards the size of an Antarctic ice shelf, "Just for Tonight" opens the album grabbing for The Killers' crown, and damn well gets a decent grip for a while. On that and "He's There" you can barely get a cigarette paper between the two in terms of style and tone, though One Night Only are burning smokeless fuel, there's no mistaking the cleanliness of their construct.
Which also reveals the other side of their coin-jerky saccharine MOR in the mould of The Feeling and The Hoosiers, gushing freely (in the stage-managed sense) through "It's About Time" and "It's Alright".
It seems that time spent playing in a Blink 182 covers band has rubbed off on their posture in some quarters of the album too--One Night Only clearly want to just get out there and make friends.
No grand gestures, no manifesto and in spite of the title no pyrotechnics. Just good clean bundles of fun like "You & Me", essentially a Panda Pop Libertines. And where's the harm in that? --James Berry
Review Source: Amazon.co.uk
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