Pale Fire Music presents The Courtesy Group

Set apart in their own musical galaxy Birmingham's own tunemongering grinesters, The Courtesy Group, survive against fashion, mediocrity, systematic dullness and impossible odds.

Marmite to most musical confectionery, their debut album 'Tradesman's Entrance' and its successor 'Second City Liquor' have aired on BBC6's Stuart Maconie's Freakzone, Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service and Guy Garvey's Finest Hour (and previously on The John Peel Show on Radio 1), as well as receiving glowing reviews from Mojo, Uncut, Louder Than War and Stewart Lee in 'The Sunday Times': live, they remain consistently dangerous and a robust antidote to a fully digitalised itunes world.

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Post industrial sleaze from Brum's foremost trident of catastrophe. Energetic mayhem and folk punk psychedelia. Quite noisy to boot. The Crooked Hooks. Hoover blues sexmen. One of the greatest bands in the world". Sunday Xpress
"streetwise Brummie psych folk rock at its very best". Ben Calvert, Brumnotes Magazine
"alt-boogie...prog punk. Gloriously raucous and ramshackle" Mrs B, We Love Bearwood