Edito de FireworksHamfatter seem to be influenced by bands they've never or hardly heard of such as The Violent Femmes, XTC, Ben Folds Five, The Modern Lovers, The Go-Betweens or the early Belle & Sebastian. But all of these comparisons are purely erm? academical, as contrary to current convention, Hamfatter don't make music to recreate their record collections. Eoin O'Mahony might be a classically trained pianist (for evidence check out "Bonus"), but he's got an inbuilt sense of inverted snobbery, i.e. he finds writing pop songs a lot more interesting than reading dead people's minds.
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