HARD-LA

Well, this is going to be hard to take - it's like the bad old days of the brain drain, when Britain's well-educated elite would quit the country as soon as they got a sniff of interest from anywhere abroad. It doesn't happen now, of course, because the poor state of the university network in the UK coupled with the crippling cost of tuition fees means we don't really turn out anyone who many countries are interested in. Although apparently Andorra has been sniffing round third year semiotics course students at the University of Luton.

Still, they want to get their hands on our lovely music, and - because they don;t want to be flying "back and forth across the Atlantic", Hard-Fi have elected to relocate to LA while they concentrate on breaking the US.

Presumably nobody has told them that living on the West Coast means that they'll, erm, be constantly flying backwards and forwards to the East side for TV appearances and so on.

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