10 Bands From The 2000s You've Definitely Forgotten

Being featured as a song on a FIFA playlist from about 2001 onwards was the equivalent to appearing on The Old Grey Whistle Test back in the day, your reach as a band or musician just went global instantly.

The Hoosiers were just one of many bands who garnered a helpful push in the radio ratings thanks to the football franchise, of the same ilk as The Feeling, a frantic energy akin to The Kooks or The Pigeon Detectives and some chord progressions and riffs that sounded suspiciously similar to a lot of The Cure’s; The Hoosiers were a mid-card band throughout the back end of decade.

They were snappy, cheesy and bit like saccharine bubble-gum most of the time but more than palatable if you were in the right sort of mood. The Ben Stiller look-alike and semi-ironic facial hair probably helped with that as well.

With a couple of songs that will ring that little memory bell in the back of the brain when you hear them, The Hoosiers can be filed alongside The Fratellis, Scouting For Girls and whatever other stunted punters were knocking around in bands at the time.