Public Access TV have all the hallmarks of the kind of band who flash across magazine covers and generate wild excitement and pick up model girlfriends before the world decides whether they are going to be a new Strokes or a second Mooney Suzuki, destined to be remembered only by a few. They were the subject of what is always referred to as a “major label bidding war” – one that began before their first gig, and before anyone bar the bidding labels had heard a note of their music. In the near year since people began talking about them, they’ve rationed out the music – only four tracks are widely available, because that’s the way Polydor, which won the bidding war, has wanted it. They’re based not in Brooklyn, but in Manhattan, the island from which still wafts the faint smell of the CBGB punks and Lower East Side cool. That first gig, a free show in a New York bar at the start of this year, was attended by Alexa Chung and Lindsay Lohan.
The Fat Angel Sings 