The 22-20s were an English rock band from Sleaford, Lincolnshire. With a trademark blues rock meets adrenaline skiffle sound, one paper described the 22-20s as sounding like "The White Stripes as played by The Jimi Hendrix Experience". Though the band first split up in January 2006, their song "Devil in Me" is regularly heard in the UK as the theme music for a Vauxhall Astra television advertisement. Career Named after the song "22-20 Blues" by Skip James, the 22-20s formed as a three-piece with Martin Trimble on guitar/vocals, Glen Bartup on bass and Mark Barrett, later to be followed by James Irving, on drums. They were soon augmented live by Charly Coombes (brother of Supergrass' brothers Gaz and Rob Coombes) on keyboards, who subsequently joined full time. Their first studio-recorded album, a self-titled, 10-track effort, was released in September 2004, following a six-track live EP released the previous year. Both rele

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