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  • 01 Feb 07
Future bible heroes
Future bible heroes
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The Hot Press Newsdesk

They pinched their name from the Old Testament and are quite partial to a bit of Moz. They are The Maccabees and just maybe they’ll rock your world in 2007.

Thumbing through a tattered Bible late one evening, Orlando Weeks stumbled upon the sad, strange tale of The Maccabees, a breakaway Jewish sect whose 163 BC uprising against Greek rule was brutally suppressed by Emperor Antiochus IV (or so a certain Mr Wik E. Pedia tells us).

'First Love' is released by Fiction on February 28.

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