They're heading to Aura in Taunton this October, and our advice is to catch them there... or at an unannounced gig they may decide to play while they're here. So who is this hotly tipped band exactly? Their website says: "The Others are the others and will continue to be deranged oddballs whether or not they're written about or listened to." Indeed, there's really nothing ordinary about them. How the band was formed is even a random story in itself. Becoming known in London's underground rock scene a couple of years ago, lead singer Dominic Masters pretended to be in a band. When he was offered a gig, he formed The Others just in time to play! They've got pretty crazy fans too, who are just as devoted to The Others as the band is to them. The 853 Kamikaze Stage-Diving Square are a self-styled bunch of devotees who follow The Others around with a passionate loyalty. The music Insisting they're not punk - that word has ceased to have any useful meaning to them - The Others say it's the message in their music that's important to them.  | | Lead singer Dominic Masters is from near Wells |
The band's debut single, This is for the Poor, a class-conscious track about working class kids and rejecting the wealthy, only just missed the Top 40 back in May this year. Their next single, Stan Bowles, is released on 11 October and is dedicated to ex-Libertine Pete Doherty, who supported the band during their early stages. The song refers to Pete's favourite football player, the former QPR midfielder by the same name. Dominic says: "It's about the good times we've had over the last couple of years, playing football in the park, going out partying and building a community." The gigs The Others have had a pretty busy year so far, combining actual planned concerts with the unannounced one-off guerrilla gigs they've become renowned for. In May, they took the meaning of 'underground rock' to a new level when they played quite literally underground – on the Tube! Two carriages were taken over by their fans after they announced the gig over the internet just hours before it took place. They played the New Band Tent at this year's Glastonbury, which went down a storm. That's not the only set they played at Glasto though. True to form, they also played a midnight session in the Vice Tent. Later on in June, they played two impromptu shows in just three hours. First, they hit the lobby of Radio 1 after they had been asked to do an interview about guerrilla gigging. The band found it all rather ironic and so decided to turn the tables and do a guerrilla gig at the BBC. They then led the group of fans into Regent's Park where they played a second set. At the Leeds Festival, their set alongside The Kills, Amplifier and Secret Machines, was only the beginning of their plans. The band stormed into the Dodgems in the festival's fairground and played This is for the Poor through portable speakers and a megaphone. Who knows where they'll play next; fancy a gig up The Tor anyone? You can read our interview with Dominic Masters by clicking on the link at the top of the page. | 
