‘What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?’ must be pretty much the most down-to-earth album title since ‘Is This It?’(from ‘00) by The Strokes. It's no coincidence that this band is the one the four from London are constantly compared with. For sound. For spirit. For high expectations. After all, according to the British press, rock is dead as a doornail at the moment. Then there was that wonderful ‘Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra)’. A single lasting barely 1’24” and which links the The (Ra Ra Ra) Ramones with The Libertines in an infectious manner. Some radio-makers even played it twice in a row.

“I think it takes balls to make simple music,” The Vaccines singer Justin Young once said. That's true. The Vaccines are a wonderfully old-fashioned rock band that succeeds in appearing as fresh as a daisy after a half century of pop music. Their managers also watch over Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs. So its that sort of excitement.

Their second album ‘The Vaccines Come Of Age’ is in the making and was recorded in Brussels (!). The forerunner and single ‘No Hope’ certainly sounds promising. Oh, and Brussels: that's where the band will again triumph! In AB that is.

Support-act will be indie-rock band Zulu Winter from London. Their debut ‘Language’ was released earlier this year and Keane took them along on their latest ‘Strangeland Tour’. Famous festivals Reading and Leeds fell for them too.