You've seen our tips for 2011 but what of those other names currently being bandied around? Here are four artists we’ll be avoiding for a while - we suggest you do the same.
What follows are bands ‘tipped for the top’ by other commentators but after considerable research Clash would like to sneak in a suggestion that these are in fact bloated, nonsensical wiff-waff that are better avoided for the litany of fine acts that surround these pages.
Gypsy And The Cat
If the idea of a slightly scruffy Aussie Scouting For Girls gets you hard then pull up a slice of Gouda. Expect Gypsy And The Cat to be clogging up the main stage at V Festival very soon, following in the fine footsteps of their magnificent forefathers The Hoosiers.
Jessie J
Auto-tuned, plagiarised and over-Americanised pop desperation mutated from the dismembered and old bits that fall off Madonna and the ideas Lady Gaga didn’t want. We’ve accepted Gaga’s level of attitude, but it doesn’t mean that each major label needs to grow an Essex cash cow to stuff down our throats. Please challenge us!
French Horn Rebellion
About as revolutionary as getting picked up by your mum after school, these two Brooklyn boho wannabes stink of a band that’s completely exhausted any idea before they’ve even started. And they’ve been going for about three years! A new nadir in pointless sounds and truly awful prolapsed arse noise.
Tanlines
More US dance hype that doesn’t know whether it needs a shit or a haircut let alone a 360 degree record deal. Tanlines make washed-out dance music that might just get slightly better or may trundle forth through quasi-tropical beats that sound like everyone and no-one simultaneously. Which is about as remarkable as their achievements get.