STEALING SHEEP

Stealing Sheep are a three-piece girl group from Liverpool but they're not exactly Atomic Kitten. In fact, they have more in common with Watford's finest girl-folk trio the Staves or with Warpaint, the all-female LA band who merge country, electronica, post-punk and post-rock. Stealing Sheep offer a similarly curious musical mix-up, only with one of their members hailing from the rural idyll that is Abbotts Bromley in deepest East Staffordshire, they have found elements of medieval folkiness seeping into their music (the village is the scene of the oldest folk dance in the UK, held every September if you fancy heading over there). "Weirdly to start with I didn't even realise our music was pagan-y or folky, it didn't cross my mind," says keyboardist Rebecca Hawley. "Then suddenly I started listening to it and thought: 'Ah, I sort of get it now, there's the medieval drones and the bells and harmonies.'"