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Brothers Harry and Alfie, have amassed a huge underground following over a series of well-received EPs and singles, reaching an audience of nearly 5 million on You Tube and Vevo. It seems fans simply cant get enough of their breezy, beguiling folk-pop.

They have certainly been hanging round in the right circles: they supported Jake Bugg on his arena tour earlier this year and ended up performing twice in one day when they played with the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park, as well as numerous performances at festivals throughout the summer, including the Cotswolds’ very own Cornbury.

“Yes this is will be our second year of doing the Festival Circuits and Cornbury was a particularly good one,” said Harry, when he recently spoke to The Gazette. “ We certainly would love to go back there sometime, that was a gorgeous Festival.

But fans haven’t seen much of the boys in recent months, as they have been holed up in the studio finishing off material for their new album ‘Singing for Strangers’, which has just been released tin their native Ireland where it has reached No3 in the charts.

“We’ve been working on it for a very long time and were really excited about getting out in theUK and Europe,” said Harry. “It’s been like a bit of a dry run, which is nice.”

The title, Singing For Strangers, was inspired by the duos early days when they used to go out busking, under their original name of ‘Harry and Alfie’.

“That’s how we started out, when we didn’t take our music particularly seriously, but when things began to take off we decided we really needed more of a serious name,” said Harry.

“And of course we are singing for strangers all the time on the internet, where have had such massive success on You Tube; our videos are seen by 1000s of strangers every day, all around the world.