Twisted Wheel

Named after the iconic central Manchester soul club, local Oldham act Twisted Wheel comprised guitarist and lead vocalist Jonny Brown, bassist Richard Lees, and drummer Adam Clarke. Born in February 2007 out of the ashes of Brown and Clarke's previous '60s rock-inspired project the Children, this raucous and ramshackle, punk-inflected indie rock trio performed their first gig only a week after their formation. As with a handful of their U.K. contemporaries -- in particular Dundee's the View and Coventry's the Enemy -- the band shared an obsession with the spikiness and immedi...