The Counterfeits' BBC Introducing Session

When you look at the influences of a band, you can start to pinpoint and build up an idea of what sort of style or sound the band will have.

Looking at what music had influenced The Counterfeits, it was very difficult to tie them down to a particular genre or set of influences.

Folk and Blues artists such as Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams, mixed with the rock bands like The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, punk acts like The Germs and The Stooges, and more recent acts like Nirvana and Queens Of The Stone Age, all helped to shape the band's music.

Since forming in January 2006, The Counterfeits have worked on developing each idea, each composition slowly, building it, arranging and rearranging it, assessing, experimenting, delaying, and changing with each gig a platform to test their unique sound.