Spires Radio isn't the only place where you can hear Silverman - their Portishead-esque sounds, crossed with Mogwa and Tori Amos, will also be impressing Marr's Bar punters on Sunday.

And as an extra treat, they'll be performing a couple of acoustic tracks at Our Price in Worcester's High Street earlier in the day at 3.30pm.

Silverman's co-founder Martin Williams describes the band's music as "moments of thoughts and emotion gently exploded into beautiful songs".

Silverman have enjoyed genuine success on the internet.

They've clocked up more than 300,000 downloads on mp3.com alone, and have released two albums purely for the internet.

Speed Of Life Part 2 is the first album to be released in the shops.

Having charted high and consistently on the net, Silverman won a US Streamsearch audience poll.

They were flown to Los Angeles for the awards ceremony and appeared as guests of honour at the after-show party in Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion.

"It was astounding and surreal," said Martin.

Silverman - who are sponsored by Prozac - consist of Martin on sampler, drums, guitar and vocals, Anna Dennis on vocals and acoustic guitar, Steve Moody on bass, Alan Deacon on the keyboards and Paul Treby on guitar.

Anna has spent lonely years writing and trashing songs and finding her own voice, but Martin's story is different.

As drummer, co-songwriter and acting manager of band Nilon Bombers, he has suffered the toilet-tours.

Martin went looking for a singer and, pointed in her direction by "a completely

inappropriate rock guy", discovered Anna in an acoustic club.

She introduced him to Tori Amos and Heather Nova, he drew her into Mogwai, Sparklehorse and Arab Strap - "stuff that gives you somewhere to explore, where not everything is at the surface," he says.

Speed of Life Part 2 is not strictly speaking a debut, and it doesn't sound like one.

Caustic, cruel duet Ctrl Alt Del will remind you of Gainsbourg and Birkin, or Cave and Kylie, with music courtesy of, perhaps, Massive Attack.

Can I Have my Heart Back, Please? has you thinking of tormented Cocteau Twins, with a broken Anna's sad request buried beneath a wave of brutal electro-noise.

Themes include sex, death and lingering pain - though the sex is tellingly not gender-specific.

Speed Of Life Part 2 is available in the shops now.