BEFORE their multitude of Nineties' chart hits, York's own Shed Seven came under pressure to be economical with the truth by re-branding themselves as Leeds lads because it would have more street cred.

To their credit, supermarket shelf stacker Rick Witter and co decided to stick with being a York band and success came their way anyway.

Now newcomers Blossoms face a similar dilemma as they undertake their biggest tour so far, with Fibbers in York next Wednesday among their 13 headline shows in October.

Some press cuttings refer to them as "Stockport five-piece Blossoms", others as "Manchester's Blossoms", so which will it be, Stockport or the northern musical powerhouse of Manchester?

"We definitely see ourselves as a Stockport band," says frontman and guitarist Tom Ogden. "But we're so close to Manchester, we do our home-town gigs there [such as the Manchester Ritz on the tour's closing night, October 23].

"We were all born in the same Stockport hospital and we rehearse at Charlie the bass player's grandad's scaffolding firm, where we stroll into in our skinny jeans as they're doing their hard graft."

Ogden and drummer Joe Donovan have known each other for ten years; keyboard player Myles Kellock and bassist Charlie Salt went to the same school; lead guitarist Josh Dewhurst is the youngest member at 18, but has been with the band since he was 15. "Me and Charlie and Joe were playing in other bands but got fed up with it and by 2013 we'd all stopped our bands and Blossoms, for the first time, was the band that felt it was the one," says Tom.

"It all came together organically and if you do anything for a longer time, it will get better. With this band, we all started to really want to do it, rather than not all pulling together in one direction. So we would start doing one gig at the weekend, then two, and we just had a self-belief that we could do something."

Initially they were deemed part of Manchester's psychedelic revival scene, but Blossoms preferred to coin their own term, "ethereal nostalgic sonance" or "dark pop" for short, rather than to limit themselves to re-creating Sixties psychedelia.

James Skelly, of Liverpool band The Coral, quickly came on board to produce July's Blown Rose EP. "James heard one of the demos we'd recorded at our rehearsal room and he just got in touch to say he wanted to work with us. We thought, 'Why us'?! But it's been great to work with someone we looked up to," says Tom.

Blossoms are now making their debut album with Skelly at Parr Street studios in Liverpool. "When it comes to recording an album, lots of bands have a problem finding a producer, but we knew straightaway we wanted to work with James again as we could work faster," says Tom.

Further recording sessions will follow before a release date on the Virgin EMI label is set in stone for next year for an album expected to include debut single Blow and later single Cut Me And I'll Bleed.

"There's nothing set in place yet but the singles will probably be on there and there's about half the record still to go," says Tom, whose band continues to take musical shape.

"In the early days, people always said 'psych rock' and we always said 'No'. There are elements of it but we're basically a guitar band," says Tom. "You have to find your own style and two years down the line we've done that, but in two years' time, we'll probably have developed a different sound again."

Blossoms play Fibbers, York next Wednesday; doors open at 7.30pm for 8pm start. Box office: fibbers.co.uk