“Sit Down Meal”, Dry Cleaning

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Who doesn't have a little dry cleaning in their life? When Lewis Maynard, Tom Dowse and Nick Buxton – old friends whose previous bands had crossed paths in London – united to belt out some Deftones bangers, however, it proved to be the unlikely catalyst to start a new band together. 

The trio spent the next few months writing and rehearsing the songs that would ultimately become Dry Cleaning, perfecting their sweet-and-sour mix of acerbic post-punk and the kind of bass-heavy melodies that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Postcard Records compilation.

All the band needed now was a singer – presumably none of the trio had sufficiently nailed it on the night in question – and an answer soon presented itself in the form of Flo Shaw, with whom Tom had both studied and worked alongside, first as art school students at Royal College of Arts and then university lecturers.

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