HAVING two bands with similar-sounding names in the same town is likely to cause confusion - but that's the situation in Burnley where young rockers Caine and slighter older band Kain look set to live and let live.

Although Kain coined their name two years ago, young Burnley band Tuesday's Child have changed their name to Caine and have an album set for imminent release under that monicker.

Both bands are set to play charity gigs in the coming weeks and neither wanted to say anything unpleasant about the other.

Kain singer Roy Bright said: "I don't know if these other lads realised that we were a Burnley band too and we were called Kain.

"I know we have played on the same bill as them before, when they were called something else.

"We started two years ago and our name is on a national band register.

"Maybe Caine could have showed a little more tact and called themselves something else.

"But I don't think they've tried to steal our name and there's not going to be a band war going on.

"The only confusion is going to be when we are trying to get gigs and people think we are someone else. At the level both bands are at, then it's case of live and let live.

"We are trying to get bands in East Lancashire to pull together and get music people up here to see how much talent there is, so there's no ill-feeling towards Caine. It might even help both bands."

Kain's Roger Rawlinson said there had been confusion when he tried to set up a gig at Manchester's Boardwalk, where promoters seemed confuse them with another band. But Caine say they are baffled by that because they have not played Manchester since their name change.

Caine, comprising Danny Nearney, Paul Brogan, Chris Blakey and Stuart Grice, started under the name of Fallout five years ago at St Theodore's High School, Burnley.

Paul Brogan, bass player with Caine, said: "We used to be called Tuesday's Child and we changed our name about three months ago. It's Caine as in Michael Caine.

"There are differences between us and Kain. We are quite young - we're all 18 - and they are in their mid 20s.

"I think they play slightly more mod-type stuff than we do.

"We didn't think it would matter. In fact, we thought they had finished.

"They obviously haven't but we're not planning to change the name now."

Caine started playing covers but their turning point came when they first saw signed local lads Syndicate play. Drummer Chris said: "They just blew us away with their whole attitude to being in a band."

Former Syndicate guitarist Paul Yates gave them tips and has produced their self-funded debut album On The Edge On Sleep, which is set for release soon. A single called Caress should be coming out in the next few weeks.

CAINE are set to perform in a charity concert at the town's Comfort Inn for a cause close to their hearts. A friend called Jamie recently needed a kidney operation and this spurred the lads to team up with Burnley College outfit Dig Pfizer B to raise money for kidney dialysis. The gig is this Friday.

MEANWHILE, a successful appeal in last week's Pulse means Kain will be joined by bands including Element and Remedy when they play a charity gig for Macmillan Nurses at The Comfort Inn, Burnley, on June 4.

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