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When iconic Hacienda DJ Dave Haslam called Air Cav asking the band to headline his night at Paris' coolest venue, La Fleche D'Or, it was the beginning of something big. Sharing a passion for all things aurally uplifting from sixties garage to French sitar music, they'd had been making waves on the local scene since summer 2006 when Sophie brought her folk-flavoured violin to join Chris, Mark and Allan's sparkling, crashing anthems. Travelling over the water with a small army of excitable Mancunian fans in tow, the band were amazed to find hip Parisian kids shouting along to every word. 

Fast forward two years and the word has spread. A headline slot in the Wychwood Festival’s Wickwar Tent followed; supports with Shearwater, I Like Trains and Sad Day For Puppets, and two well-received singles on Surbia Records. Steve Lamacq enthusiastically aired them on national radio, Channel M produced a half hour show of a hot and sweaty Night & Day performance, and the band recorded sessions for XFM and BBC Radio Manchester. 

2009 saw Air Cav consolidate their reputation as one of Manchester’s greatest live bands with packed gigs in London and The Netherlands. After a glorious set at Groningen’s legendary Vera club, Incendiary Magazine wrote “how many bands get an encore on their first Vera show? Air Cav caught that classic Manchester beat and ran with it; the audience felt it, started nodding, then dancing, then whooping and skirling along with the music. This was epic stuff, the cocksure dreaminess of the early Bunnymen, the weird gnomic pop New Order could summon at will… Frankly I haven’t seen a new British guitar band be so exciting for a good five years.” Watch out for Air Cav as they perform up and down the UK in Autumn and www.aircavmusic.co.uk for news of their debut album