Found on the pioneering Strummerville website’s roster of new bands, Southend duo The Welcome Committee bring a plaintive, philosophical rock to the party, a leaf-falling, tourists-gone-for-the-season sound appropriate in these times of pavement-skating and blizzards. It’s a bit gritty, a bit bitty and a quite a lot pretty. Shut the curtains, put on five jumpers and your thickest wool socks, warm up some tomato soup and hole up under that duvet…
The Welcome Committee - The Brave (mp3)