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first came our way back in 2008. Presenter Alan Raw saw them on stage at a brilliant youth centre in Scunthorpe, their home town. The following week he said to me; 鈥淕et them in for a session. They鈥檙e very young and they鈥檙e very different from what we normally play!鈥�

He was right. Rupert and Henry (as the duo were known back then) came to later that winter fighting their way through a blizzard to join us for a live set. The guitar playing was already breath-taking. The harmonies were spot on. The style? Well it was pure Country. It was like they鈥檇 grown up listening to and . One thing sticks in my mind from that very first interview on the 麻豆约拍 鈥� their delight that someone actually wanted to hear their music as opposed to and covers demanded by pub owners and audiences in their home town. 鈥淲e鈥檙e inspired to write more,鈥� they said.

Then they disappeared again, off back to North Lincolnshire and the pub circuit around Scunny and Brigg and Bottesford, back to playing those covers but all the time working out what direction their music was going to take.

In January this year we found out.聽 Tim Johns (ex Introducing presenter at 麻豆约拍 Lincolnshire) and I were having a chat and he told me about a band he鈥檇 seen at a school in Lincolnshire called Ruen Brothers.聽 He said they鈥檇 wanted to hold off putting their new music out there until they were ready. Now they were. Their track Aces dropped into the Uploader and so it began.

June 2013 and they鈥檙e back here at the 麻豆约拍 in Hull again for a session and to be filmed for the regional news programme Look North. Their Dad is with them. Describing himself as an 鈥榦ld Punk鈥�, he lets slip that he sang on the studio album. His record collection -聽 old vinyl Roy Orbison and Stones and everything else across the 鈥�60s and 鈥�70s - is what Rupert and Henry grew up listening to. It shows. I bet there was some Country in that record collection too.

They reminisce in an interview with Alan about the youth centre gig, about getting up as twelve year olds to sing Animals covers at The Black Beauty pub in Scunny, and right up to date, about , about finalising a deal with Island and Universal Republic. They stand in the studio, getting ready to do acoustic versions of Aces and Walk Like A Man. Exactly where they stood 5 years ago. But now, they鈥檙e bathed in blue light, lit for TV, four cameras pointing at them, directions from the gallery upstairs.

It鈥檚 so good to have them home.

Katy Noone is the producer for 麻豆约拍 Introducing on Radio Humberside

Ruen Brothers play 麻豆约拍 Introducing's stage at Glastonbury this Saturday.