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A Reading/ Maidenhead band are proving more popular than Bloc Party, The Pigeon Detectives, Hadouken and the Ting Tings.

Glamour For Better are an exciting group of 20-year-olds whose adrenalin-charged electro rock has powered them above these established artists in the charts.

"It's the MTV chart which is on MTV2 every night at 7pm," says frontman Charlie Butterfield, a second year Graphic Design student at Reading University.

The Ting Tings - not as popular as GFB

"You vote online and the vote dictates the position in the chart. We reached number 1 for two weeks ahead of Bloc Party, The Pigeon Detectives, Hadouken and the Ting Tings! It's quite an unbelievable thing to watch yourself on TV ahead of your idols - it's quite surreal."

The band hooked up in Maidenhead and studied at Reading College. Part of the exploding Indie/Electro/Rock craze, they mix angular guitars with heavy electro beats and rampant punk vocals and are now on a double-headliner tour of the UK with Party Shank.

Glamour For Better have just released single Ryan vs Roundabout and are hitting Reading's Face Bar on the Thursday August 14 for the regular BukandSkit night there, before playing Astoria 2 in Soho the following night.

"We like to interact with the crowd a lot," says Charlie of their live performance, "we've always worked towards the idea that if the people on stage are having fun, then the crowd's having fun as well."

The band are signed to Ear Candy, an indie label based in Maidenhead/Windsor, and while the six-piece can't yet make music as a full-time career yet, I have a feeling they soon will be.

"In essence it 'is' full time as it's where our minds are all the time. I sit in the classroom constantly thinking about what I'm going to next in the studio.

"It hasn't really helped me this year at university but I wouldn't change it for the world. I love it!"

Catch Glamour For Better at the Face Bar, Chatham Street, in Reading on Thursday August 14, doors 7pm, and tickets are £7 adv via wegottickets.com.

The band's second album is slated for release in December.