The chance to play their new single at Brighton's festival of the same name could turn out to be the perfect crowd-pleaser, and that's even without all the other fields they're infesting, from the Isle of Wight, to Benicassim, to Summer Sundae and just about everywhere else.

Their luckiest break might just turn out to be supporting Embrace all through the World Cup campaign. Not only will their jangly, dark-but-just-the-right-side-of-melodic guitar pop be the perfect antidote for the doubtless misery of underachievement we're all going to plunged into come mid-July, but it will also be infinitely better than anything the dreary headliners will manage, and on the off chance that God is on their side and we do end up in the Final thanks to a last five minutes turn around against Brazil, rather than go crashing out on penalties to Trinidad and Tobago in the first round, they've got the perfect soundtrack at their plectrum-picking fingertips. Edgy, catchy, singable and pretty rockin', The Great Escape has everything you could ask for in a three minute pop tune. And it even comes on square vinyl. Result.

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