THE Band Room promoter Nigel Burnham has booked Maia, Huddersfield’s 21st century answer to The Beatles”, as his first signing for 2014 at the tin shed in Low Mill, Farndale, near Kirkbymoorside.
The alternative, acoustic four-piece of Tom Clegg, Joe Haig, Simon Robinson and Will Fletcher will play “all sorts of disco sci-fi folk pop on ukulele, cajon, trumpet, banjo, mandolin or whatever else is lying around” on Saturday, May 17 at 7.30pm.
“If you’re new to Maia, they call themselves ‘Alternative Sci-fi Folk Pop Evangelists’, but we think they’re more like the 21st century Beatles. Honest,” asserts Nigel. “As funny, inventive and exhilarating as the Fab Four in their heyday, they’re our tip for Breakout Band of 2014.”
Maia released their self-titled debut album in a bespoke wooden sleeve in 2010, the year they “invented sci-fi folk”, followed two years later by Pepper Stars, whose first run of 1,000 copies came with an intergalactic embossed card in bronze, silver or gold, plus four Maia postage stamps and a lyric sheet, all contained in a Pepper Stars envelope. Among the striking track titles were Zuma Aluma, Living In The Alligator, More Strangely Than The Moon and Towards The Onion.
As they head “into infinity and beyond star gazers” in 2014, Maia can look forward to their Band Room debut with two so-far secret support acts on May 17. Tickets are on sale online at thebandroom.co.uk
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