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There was no Best Of February. At the time, we put it down to bad time management and lack of organisation. Whether you believe this, or feel more comfortable theorising on a more salacious excuse, possibly featuring incarceration for lewd public acts, is up to you.

But February duly came and went, and then march arrived, full of springy good nature, and a trolley-load of superb bands.

So here’s the best of them – and amongst the rag-tag bunch are the excellent beat-freak Gold Panda, the skew-whiff and wonderful Alan MX and the guess-what-they’re-huge-now Micachu and the Shapes.

Read all about them right here!