Artist: The Amateurs
Source: Adam Lacey
The Amateurs are a Birmingham four-piece who specialise in the kind of MOR twaddle that should have been taken out into a field and shot in the face years ago as a lesson to all musicians to inject a bit of passion and vim into their craft and into what they are attempting to peddle to the music-buying public.
It seems incredible that with the wealth of talent and various genres of wonderful music available any band would now pick as their template Coldplay, at their most insipid, and any combination of bland, same-y, forgettable, Scouting For Girls homogenous guff that is clogging up the airwaves these days.
It mostly reminds me of Deep Blue Something, who had that Breakfast at Tiffanys song years ago, and the least fortunate part of it is that the three soft rock songs featured on this single release (Homesick, London Sky and Mystery Thing) are so forgettable that they even lack the lasting, adhesive, abject drippiness that secured Snow Patrol their Grey's Anatomy cash-in.
That said, I'll wager The Amateurs will, at some stage, have a massive radio hit that everyone will love - thanks to it featuring prominently on the soundtrack to some Jennifer Aniston rom-com - and the chorus of which even your mother will know by heart.
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