Workaday Leicester may not be the stuff-as New Jersey so clearly is-of Rock'n'Roll dreams, but it's home to Diesel Park West, originally known as the Filbertsafter the town's less than legendary soccer ground. Since forming at the decade's turn they've served a lengthy live apprenticeship while honing their '60s rock sensibilities., and awaiting that big break. It may now have come. With major label distribution (EMI Records), this is big passion music - all expertly chiming, powerchording, shiny Rickenbacker guitars, alternately pleading and preaching vocals, and rock hard pecussion; powerful production job stuff, with a hefty promotions budget to match. Offering 10 self-penned songs, the band's debut album comes awashwith '60's influences: The Kinks, Byrds, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are never far from these exuberant sketches of love and life. Yet the five-piece group also offer more than a nice line in retro-rock: on songs like When The Hoodoo Comes they fuse tradition with the energy of such modern stadium style performers as Bruce Springsteen. A bit more of the latter's pomp and circumstance, and Leicester could be almost as big as the place where he used to live.