The 22-20s are an English rock band from Sleaford, Lincolnshire. With a trademark blues rock meets adrenaline skiffle sound, one paper described the 22-20s as sounding like "The White Stripes as played by The Jimi Hendrix Experience". Though the band first split up in January 2006, their song "Devil in Me" is regularly heard in the UK as the theme music for a Vauxhall Astra TV advertisement and "Such a Fool" is featured in the Guy Ritchie film, R...
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The 22-20s are an English rock band from Sleaford, Lincolnshire. With a trademark blues rock meets adrenaline skiffle sound, one paper described the 22-20s as sounding like "The White Stripes as played by The Jimi Hendrix Experience". Though the band first split up in January 2006, their song "Devil in Me" is regularly heard in the UK as the theme music for a Vauxhall Astra TV advertisement and "Such a Fool" is featured in the Guy Ritchie film, RocknRolla.
Trimble and Bartup first began playing across Lincolnshire together in the band "Crossfire" who later became "Martin Trimble and Outside Help" and "The Martin Trimble Band", whose sets comprised mostly of blues covers .
The band disappeared for months, before re-emerging as 22-20s, named after the Skip James song "22-20 Blues", playing original material. The lineup consisted of Martin Trimble on guitar/vocals, Glen Bartup on bass and numerous drummers including Tash Aallan and Mick Nelson, who were replaced by James Irving before...
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