Who loves being ahead of the curve, an early adopter or an innovator in terms of discovering new music? One of the hottest acts around, The Academic, have plenty of huge gigs under their belt already - including recently at Sea Sessions and supporting The Strokes in Hyde Park, London - so if you know what's good for you get your earholes tuned to this lot pronto.
We have been tracking the quartet's progress here on Vodafone Centre Stage and as is apparent, their days of filling much bigger venues on their own bat are just around the corner.
With upcoming high profile shows at Indiependence and a billing for Noel Gallagher and his High Flying Birds' show at Live At The Marquee, the lads are building up quite a head of steam in putting some serious credentials on their gigging belts.
Check out how they got on recently at Sea Sessions...
