How do an indie band on a small label have a No 1 album, at a time when bands no longer sell records? But as I find out on visiting their studio in… When the Maccabees made it to the top spot in 2015 with their fourth album, Marks to Prove It, it was a triumph against the odds. Since forming in Brighton in 2004, the five-piece, who headline the Latitude festival in Suffolk next weekend, have been the missing link between the protean energy of Oasis and the quiet thoughtfulness of Radiohead — and become one of our best-loved bands.

Source: The Times July 07, 2016 16:07 UTC