the rhythm sisters

The Rhythm Sisterssaturday, saturday, sunday, sunday, lazy leeds afternoon

Who?Debbie and Mandi Laek, bottle-blonde, teenaged

Where did they get their crazy name?:They actually were sisters, you see. This was back before Jack and Meg White. But, admittedly, after the Kinks

Yes, Anna, they came from:Leeds. Like so many of them.

Essential?The first album - Road To Roundhay Pier - is pretty much everything that you need. Imagine if Avril Lavinge wrote about her real life - okay, imagine that if she went to somewhere other than stage school, and wrote her own stuff, and lived in northern england, and was flunking A-Level English lit, and worried about her butt, and wanted sex but wasn't sure, and then there were two of her, and she both had knowingly mid-atlantic accents used to great effect over semi-acoustic guitar noodling. In fact, nothing like Avril Lavinge at all, then.

Popstars in Reduced Circumstances?Probably went to university

In a nutshell, then:Lesbian lumpen-punk (Jane Solanas, NME, 1987)

Never mind the music, give us trivia:The were last sighted attempting to bring forward the release of In Liverpool in order to raise money for Hillsborough victims - as a result of South Yorkshire Police's mishandling of crowd control at an FA Cup semi-final, nearly a hundred people were crushed to death in a Sheffield football ground. A well-meaning gesture was interpreted as a slightly ghoulish PR stunt.