It was cold and wet, typically Mancunian; and the rumbling sound of a thousand bands echoed like distant thunder through the mills on Jerzey Street. Sheltered from the thunder, brothers Dave and Neil Wrobel, Mike Weaver and Mat O’Neill were cooking up a new sound... a sound they would aptly name “freight train rock”. Instantly recognising that they were creating something special, the four were eager to name themselves. Knowing their sound wasn't typically Mancunian, they paid homage to the very street where their musical birth took place. Jerzey Street Band was born.