The Vatican Cellars are novel, in fact they are a novel, but then as a lit grad you knew that, right? Novel, because they thought a set of ballads and country songs should be dark but never gothic, should be joyous and yet intricate; in short the indulgence would be yours, never theirs. So when Mr S. Hughes Esq., (guitarist with Piney Gir), and The Birthday Girl (the Schla La Las) decided to combine the former's love of folk and the latter's love of high heels and harmonium, something truly unique was born. Picking from the cream of the crop of Oxford's thriving music scene they soon had a drummer called Russell who could understand 9/18 time AND shuffle and a double bassist called Tom who channels pure anxiety into walking lines of dastardly brilliance. Et voila, The Vatican Cellars. Some call it heartbreak in a glass. Some call it "night-folk". But why don't we all just agree on "excellent" for now. ======================== Releases: The Vatican Cellars EP (Sept. 2007) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.