The Maccabees: One-Time Brighton Band Set For A Triumphant Homecoming by Mike Cobley

The Maccabees are three albums into their career (no mean feat for a modern day indie-rock band), and their latest release, Given To The Wild, has garnered a plethora of music industry critical acclaim. But expectations – their own and the outside world’s – made completion of Given To The Wild an intensive period of creativity that at one point seemed beyond their own collective talents.

The band’s guitarist Hugo White said: “Now we've reached a place of achieving what you want and making it a reality.

“Part of that was the production, which this time was predominantly us. The vision is ours, and that's something we never could have done before."

To be continued here, by Mike Cobley.