The Vaccines: 'A lot of indie bands lack ambition'
Well,what did you expect from The Vaccines?
The success of the West London band’s challengingly-named debut album flew in the face of those who dared write them off.
Some said they were too posh. Some said their Velvets/Ramones concoction was too derivative. 320,000 disagreed - via that most satisfying of metrics, their wallets.
Released in January last year, WDYEFTV is now comfortably platinum in the UK – becoming 2011’s biggest-selling debut by a band.
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