Nottingham’s bright young things. They are: Ben Brill (guitar,vox) Benedict Haydn-Davies (bass guitar, vox), Lorenzo Grandi ( lead guitar, vocs), Denis Liam Osborne (drums). The Bedford Rascals are a Nottingham fourpiece formed out of the menthol cigarette ashes of the christmas party season of 2004. Their jittery skiffle pop and curtain-twitching tales of gated Shangri las call to mind the mod-pop of Blur and the Television Personalities and the claustrophobic suburban monologues of Alans Bennett and Sillitoe. With a jagged,visceral and slightly bow-legged live act they've blazed a tweedy trail around Nottingham over the past six months