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Twitter  Twisted Wheel - Lucy The Castle (Columbia)  UK release
date: 17 November 2008 Twisted Wheel - Lucy The Castle  buy this
title  buy music Twisted Wheel are Columbia's big hope for the
next few months. If you've been paying attention, you'll have
heard people such as Noel Gallagher and, erm, Danny from Embrace
casually dropping their name into conversations. Then they
suddenly land support slots with Oasis and The View. Why on
earth would their record company think that a bunch of gobby
Northerners who play raucous guitar anthems would be a success,
I wonder?  It's easy to be cynical about Twisted Wheel. After
all, it was only a few months ago that The Twang were hailed as
the saviours of the music industry, a claim that now seems
rather ludicrous. Yet this trio from Oldham definitely have that
certain something - a swaggering attitude and genuine belief in
what they do. It's that which sets them apart from their
contemporaries, epitomised in