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Wednesday Night Heroes
Biography
It's been said that in order to be a true Cockney, one has to have grown up within earshot of the Bow Bells -- that is, the church bells of St. Mary le Bow, an historic Christian church that is located on London's working class East End and has been through everything from the Great Fire of London of 1666 to the Nazi bombings of 1941. Wednesday Night Heroes don't live even remotely close to the Bow Bells; they live a continent away in Edmonton, Canada. But the Canadian punk rockers are so mindful of classic British punk that they sound like a group of Cockneys who walk past St. Mary-le-Bow on a regular basis. Although Wednesday Night Heroes didn't get together until the late '90s, their material is totally oblivious to the popular emo sounds of the '90s and 2000s -- they show no awareness of blink-182, Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas Is the Reason, the Promise Ring or any other well-known emo bands. Instead, their loud, boisterous, raucous work is an unapologetic throwback to the old-school British punk and Oi! bands of the late '70s and early '80s; their material recalls an era in which the Clash, the Sex Pistols, C**k Sparrer, Sham 69, the Damned, 999, Generation X and the Buzzcocks ruled the British punk scene and spoke to working class Cockneys in much the same way that early hip-hop spoke to working class African-Americans.
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