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November 04, 2009

Who's Shakey's Brother? A Completely Unknown Band with Two Grammy Nods...or a Good Publicist?

The five-piece pub band, from Burnley in Lancashire, usually play gigs to crowds of no more than 50, got together only a year ago and have yet to be signed. But they’ve picked up two nominations for the 2010 Grammy Awards, the Sun has reported, even though the nominations aren’t officially announced until Dec. 2.

They were apparently nominated after friends sent their demo tape to US promoters Big Noise, who then passed them on to the voting panel of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, who pick the Grammy winners. And it seems it went down well with some in the 7,000 panel—the band are now nominated in the Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals categories.

While still keeping their dayjobs, the band have also recently been signed to Big Noise, which is a voting member of the academy. Hype or hoax, the Guardian has asked, though Spinner assumes the band themselves won’t be worrying about the fallout just yet.

The band’s Myspace says they have 115 friends.

From Marah Eakin, a commenter below:

check this out: http://a2im.org/downloads/A2IM_52nd_Annual_GRAM…; [PDF]

it’s a list of bands on labels who work w/ A2IM who have made it through to the 2nd round…