Stop press: Radio 1 have abolished pop. Alongside musical categories listed on their website such as “Rock/Indie”, “Dance”, and “Hip Hop/RnB” comes “Daytime”. Referring to the type of stuff played before nightfall, it’s the natural habitat of the half-British half-American Five O’Clock Heroes.

Or so claims frontman Antony Ellis. He’s only half-joking. Ellis insists the band owe as much to the likes of the rather more anodyne pairing of The Cars and The Police as they do The Jam, the band from which they take their name. In 1982 Paul Weller, you see, penned ‘Just Who Is The 5 O'Clock Hero?’ to champion working-class gallants.

The Dec-less Ant left the UK for the US in 2003 as a disillusioned 17-year-old. Given his tender years, the fact he now refers to his birthplace as “Northampton Town”, that he currently resides in New York, and the whole look and sound of the foursome, it’s a wonder the band haven’t also been dubbed “The Strokes Junior” already. They have now.

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