I think it was Cornell Hurd who said that you should never sing anything you didn't like, because "…if it becomes a hit, you're going to have to sing it every night". Similarly, if you call yourself ‘Topless Barmaids' (as in "Here tonight…."), ‘Free Drinks' or ‘Barenaked Ladies' and you have a modicum of success, you're kind of going to be stuck with it and people are going to see the joke first, and the music a long way second. Well, I say ‘a modicum' - as detailed in Word recently, this is a band who can fill a cruise liner with fans for a week and so I'm pretty sure they're not still smarting over disgraced former Blue Peter presenter ™ Jamie Theakston going for the cheap intro option on BBC Yoof TV ("They're not bare, they're not naked, and…." ). If you know them at all, it's probably because of that "Chickedy china, the Chinese chicken…" rappy bit from "One Week" that Chris Moyles got obsessed by a couple of years ago and played incessantly. Didn't bother getting the album though, did you? Well you should have done - it's chock full of priceless pop gems, witty asides and acerbic observations, all delivered with semi-acoustic brio and lightly dusted with CS&N harmonies which help mask the darkness behind the ostensibly throwaway sunshiney lyrics. If I had to name a "What's it like?" reference it would probably be The Beautiful South, only very much less deliberately smartarse and with much better scratching. "Who Needs Sleep" is actually, once you burrow beneath the quirky pop chorus ("There's guys been awake since the second world war…"), a dark description of what it's like to be in the middle of an episode of insomnia (and much better than David Baddiel's description of it as "…thinking about are death, cancer and the possibility of a third wank"). "In The Car" cleverly (and for once successfully) spins the ‘writing a song about writing a song' gag around with a witty pay-off. Throughout, you get the idea that these are people who had trouble with relationships and were probably bullied at school but are now, if not celebrating their triumph over personal adversity, are at least prepared to put it behind them for a while and sing upbeat bouncy songs with whistle test grade-A pass choruses about what's currently on their minds, like death, disease, sleepless nights - y'know, generally all the big staples of daytime Radio One. It would be churlish to not end with a Theakston-esque, "They're big in Canada - but to be honest, they're pretty big everywhere…" ho, and indeed, ho. Now here's a live video….