However many war crimes DIDO'S musical past may leave her accountable for when it comes to the blindfold and last cigarette, at least other members of her family have helped to enrich our artistic fabric of life.
If you're wondering what I'm blathering about, then picture the scene. Dido's brother Rollo is a guest in a North London restaurant, where his friends have brought him for a birthday meal. Word gets out around the staff who Rollo is, and waiter Harry Collier - known within the staff for having a bit of a voice on him - is deputised to sing "Happy Birthday" for the celebrant.
You've probably guessed where this is going by now. The bashful Harry comes out, not so much sings the tune, but pours his heart and soul into it. Thus impressed, Rollo invites Harry round to his Highbury Studio....and a few stages later Harry ends up fronting new kids on the block KUBB.
All very "You're A Star", you're thinking. And so would I be, were it not for the quality of Kubb's debut single "Somebody Else". For 'tis a thing of considerable wonder: urgent rock with grand designs a la Embrace (but about a gazillion times better) and a tremendous sense of dynamics topped off with a gymnastic vocal performance from young Harry that for once actually lives up to an epithet such as "Buckley-esque."
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The only fault I can find in it is that it's actually over way too soon. But then you can of course play it all over again. It's very early days yet where this band are concerned, but "Somebody Else" suggests Kubb are a name who should be earmarked for further investigation. Nice one, Rollo. Consider some brownie points clawed back.
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