Police Dog Hogan

If you read the Guardian or the Daily Telegraph or if you travel with Rough Guides or watch TV ads then you probably know several of this extraordinary band. Tim Dowling (banjo), for example, writes a very popular, and totally hilarious, weekly column in the Guardian's Saturday supplement while the other Tim (Jepson - mandolin) is a former Telegraph travel columnist who has several Rough Guides to his credit... and affable and entirely eccentric frontman James Studholme runs one of the country's leading film production companies and produced that wonderful John Lewis Christmas ad. Together, this group of London media friends got together out of a joint love of American music.