THE Tea Street Band will follow up their Sunday appearance at Leeds Festival at Bramham Park by playing The Duchess in York on October 2 and the Leeds Cockpit on October 10.

Timo Tierney, vox and guitar, Lee Smith, guitar, Nick Otageui, bass, Dom Allen, drums, and James Albertina, keyboards, released their self-titled debut on the Baltic label in June, having achieved more than 100 per cent of their recording budget target within a fortnight of launching a funding drive through Pledge Music.

This self-sufficient form of funding gave them an uninhibited world away from label demands, resulting in an album of ecstatic grooves, hypnotic pulses, wistful beauty and yearning for better days, recorded at Liverpool's Motor Museum studio with rising producer Al Groves, who has worked with Jake Bugg and The Courteeners.

The Tea Street Band began by organising their own warehouse rave gigs around the North West, having formed from the ashes of The Maybes? with the addition of keyboardist James Albertina. They have since become the favourite new band of Michael Head, front man of cult Liverpool group Shack, and picked up airplay on BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6Music, while their singles Disco Lights and Lost For Words have been played before Liverpool and Everton matches.