Ask for a symbol of middle-class England and you’ll probably get Tunbridge Wells. Ask for a description of modern music and you might hear devoid of balls. Ask anyone who has seen or heard The Belgrave Scandal and neither of these descriptions can possibly, remotely apply.Yet out of the grand, leafy streets of Kent’s doyen of respectability has burst a band that is anything but middle class. Top class and blessed with more throbbing genitalia than a Friday night at Stringfellows is The Belgrave Scandal. Let’s repeat that name again, The Belgrave Scandal, because you may soon know it as well as your own and if not, there’s no justice in the world or you’re living under a rock. Rock they do, balls they have, class they are. The Belgrave Scandal are three young men who appear to love music and life in equal measure and this exciting, devil-may care attitude seeps through every pore of their performance. Influenced by all the right names, from 60’s stars like The Kinks through to their closest-sounding musical relatives, The Jam, this band are gaining fans fast. A classically rocky, almost bluesy (even old-fashioned) sound with a jangly, danceable quality to it, they combine spikey indie with catchy melodies and like any song that immediately grabs at the brain, their self-penned lyrics are straight off the street and fire the imagination. From the gritty realism of football violence in ‘Brighton Away’ to the delightfully catchy ‘Beedy Little Eyes’ with it’s cheeky theme of an unhealthy obsession (or perfectly natural depending on whether you live in Tunbridge Wells or not) this is gutsy ‘short story music’ with a wry unpretentiousness delivered with a driving beat and through that vital musical conduit, a distinctive lead vocal. Now, with a still-warm management contract tucked under their arms, lead vocal/ guitarist Dave Lattimer, bassist Hayden Thirkell and drummer Dan Jenkinson could well be destined to explode onto an even bigger stage than they, for all their belief and enthusiasm, could have imagined when playing their first gig back in early 2006 at the Tunbridge Wells Forum.There have been many scandals involving Belgravia over the centuries but unless I’m living under my own personal rock, this noisy, fresh, ‘unpolluted’ and annoyingly good-looking trio are about to set rather more than silver-spooned tongues wagging