The Guardian called Brother “the saviours of rock’n’roll and NME deemed them to be “the future of music”, giving them a front cover.

Only last year, the death knell was sounded for British guitar bands, swamped in a mire of auto-tuned R&B muzak, but maybe the Last Post can be postponed. Here come Brother to pick up the mantle of swagger from Oasis, with a new single, Live At Abbey Road performance and Late Night With David Letterman appearance in the United States on the horizon.

As they stride north to play York, lead lip Lee Newell is ready to walk the walk.

How are you feeling as the hype builds up around you, Lee?

“This is the first proper tour we’ve got as a headline band and it’s exciting for us as it’s pretty much sold out as people will want to see if we can walk the walk as well as we talk the talk – though I think it comes across a little different in print, but we do believe what we say, whereas lots of bands don’t believe in themselves at the moment. We do!”

Goodbye Slough, hello world?

“Anywhere is better than Slough!

“There’ve never been any famous bands from Slough. I think we’re the biggest export from there apart from The Office.

“There’s not much of a music scene in Slough itself; the nearest place really for us to play was Reading, though there are good people in Slough and we filmed one of our videos there last year on a rooftop [for the single Darling Buds Of May].”

Anything The Beatles can do, eh, Lee?

“Yeah, it was to put us out there. There weren’t many logistics to it. We just climbed up there and played.”

Welcome back to “the great British rock band”, Lee. Are you blowing the tumbleweed away?

“That whole lack of that music was a massive reason for us to get together to do this, as a vehicle of escape from Slough, but also as we were frustrated by what we heard on the radio – and it does seem to be changing already. Hopefully we’ll be known by the end of the year.”

When will your album be out, Lee?

“July 4, though I wouldn’t be so cheesy as to say it’s the day of our independence.”

But you’re giving it a cocky title, Famous First Words.

“It’s just making us step up our game. We set up the barriers ourselves and then we break them down.

“We’re a serious band but we’re not serious people, so we’re not trying to be Jesus, just be a rock’n’roll band and have a good time.

“But that title was also because we’ve already had a lot of adverse press even before we’ve really started, having a go at us, so that’s why it’s Famous First Words, because we’re talked about already.”

And it's not all hype- not only has the legendary Stephen Street produced the album, but rock photographer Pennie Smith, synonomous with The Clash, has created the album's artwork.

"I've been a fan of Pennie Smith's photos for a long time because she photographed so many of my favourite bands, so the record company got in touch and though normally she won't do a new band, she heard our music and agreed to do it," says a delighted Lee.

• Brother play a sold-out gig at Stereo, York, tonight, and Cockpit, Leeds, on May 26. Their new single, Still Here, will be released on May 2 on Geffen Records.