Maxcast are thrilled to announce the services of another great band – The Hoosiers!

The Hoosiers (formerly known as The Hoosier Complex) are a multinational band hailing from both the UK and Sweden. The band consists of Irwin Sparkes handling guitar and vocals, Martin Skarendahl (bass and acoustic guitar) and Alphonso “Alan” Sharland on the drums and percussion. Their time spent in Indiana, USA inspired the band’s name as well as their first creative output: a citizen of Indiana is colloquially called a Hoosier.

Their debut single “Worried About Ray” muscled it’s way to No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart in July 2007 and they released their debut album, The Trick to Life, in October reaching the top spot in the UK album charts.

The Hoosiers have honed a sound they call “Odd pop”, combining a number of musical genres and references. The boys cite their key influences as The Cure, Jeff Buckley, The Flaming Lips and XTC.

The band are currently in the studio putting the finishing touches on their next album and this will be on general release early next year, in between sessions (and maybe even during) they’ll be onboard the Maxcast site and posting up plenty of cool stuff for your aural and visual pleasure!

Maxcast Team

Hey Pepsimaxcasters… It’s been a blinding few weeks indeed. We have had some truly brilliant gigs – Leeds on Monday was mental… we had the Sheffield Wednesday firm in and it went off!!

And the The London Forum last Thurs was totally insane!! It was packed, the crowd knew every single word to every song and  everyone was jumping about and going crazy- at one point I thought the balcony was going to come down! We then went on and partied till the small hours in Camden… I didn’t feel to clever in the morning though!

I also wanna say a big thank you to the Pepsi Max comp winners for coming down and saying  hello – top geezers! Anyway just thought you’d like a sneak peek at one of our soundchecks. This is me doing “The Drugs Don’t Work” by The Verve – one of my favourite bands. Liam, Andy and I like to take it in turns to choose a song to cover to keep sounchecks fun! Enjoy… TC.