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They've been making quite a name for themselves this year on the indie circuit, this lot. And the name is Noah & The Whale, not to be confused with latter-day a cappella barber-shop crooners Jonah & the Wailers, who've been making quite a name for themselves for a decade or more on the suburban wedding and bar mitzvah circuit. Noah & the Whale are junior folk-rockers, a sort of Hasbro Fairport Convention, a Blue Peter Pogues or Magic Roundabout Magic Numbers, reared on fiddletastic pop when other kids their age were sucking on Chupa Chups. "My mum is a total folkie," says 21-year-old songwriter Charlie Fink, who, until he was about 14, believed his mum had written This Land Is Your Land. She hadn't. Some bloke called Woody Guthrie (not as far as we know a resident of Twickenham) had.