The Hepburns

The Hepburns are a Welsh indie band from Llanelli. They formed in January 1985 and have recorded eleven albums, two EPs, one single, and four BBC sessions in their 32-year career. They have been signed to Berkeley-based label Radio Khartoum since the 1990s, following a two-year tenure at London’s Cherry Red Records from 1987–1989. They toured the US and Scandinavia in 2007. 

 

Born of the post-punk, indie boom of the early-80s, but with their roots in the 1960s, their sound is an amalgam of indie guitar pop with Burt Bacharach, Jake Thackray, and Jonathan Richman, a style fast becoming known in Carmarthenshire as "Thackarich". The current line-up is: Matt Jones (guitar, vocals), Mike Thomas (bass), Les Mun (drums), Sue Reece (keyboards, flute), and Cris Haines (brass). For fans of él Records, The Lucksmiths, The Monochrome Set, The Smiths, The Specials, Momus, John Barry and Jake Thackray. Their 11th studio album, 'In the Mean Time', a wry look at a post-Brexit, post-Trump world and the plight of the former working classes in the late-capitalist era, was released on April 6th, 2018. [SOURCE: RADIO KHARTOUM]