IAATM Xmas Bash

The Exact Opposite

Band chemistry is a strange, undefinable, intangible thing, but when it’s there, it’s undeniable. And it’s undeniable that duo The Exact Opposite have it in spades. That it’s just singer/guitarist Jamie Stuart and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Nigel Powell makes the depth, richness and full-bodied texture of the songs they create all the more impressive. Stuart and Powell already knew they had chemistry from their time together in Oxford’s Dive Dive, which they’d formed in 2001 after their other bands – Unbelievable Truth and Dustball, respectively – broke up. On ice for 15 years while Powell and the other two members of Dive Dive played full-time as Frank Turner’s backing band, The Sleeping Souls they have rediscovered that vitality.

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