Astoria stands out with big guitar sounds

By Brooke

Halfway between London and Glasgow, in the West Yorkshire city that famously gave the world the Kaiser Chiefs and Mel B of the Spice Girls, the band Astoria is emerging as a standout player in a whole new field of guitar-driven rock hopefuls.

By their own admission, “Astoria in its early years was nothing more than a few square pegs in round holes desperately trying to force a creative spark, which ultimately produced nothing [more] than unrehearsed Arctic Monkeys covers.”

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