With their cowboy hats and wild west image you’d expect DownReno to hail from the Deep South, USA.

But the band are in fact a Huddersfield and Bradford combination who are starting to win fans with their Americana pop tunes.

The four-piece includes former Terrorvision drummer Cameron Greenwood, who is now based in Huddersfield.

Terrorvision famously reached number two in the UK charts in 1999 with their hit single Tequila.

Cameron has joined forces with his step-dad, Jez Barraclough, who formed the band out of the ashes of much loved Bradford group, The Broken Hearts Club Band.

The band’s double bass player Ricky Silvers crossed to the new group while drummer, Craig Bussey, moved front of stage to take on lead guitar duties.

The move left a spot for Cameron to come on board as chief tub thumper.

Cameron said the new dynamic had quickly found a groove that had led to them honing their new folk pop sound.

He said: “Once Craig went onto guitar, the riffs he came out with made things so much better.

“The old songs sound completely different to how they used to.

“We’re all singing as well which makes it a lot more joyful.

“We just started writing and saying ‘what about this, what about that?’ to find out who we really are.

“We never wanted to be a certain style, it just happened really. For months people were asking how would we describe ourselves and we could not come up with a genre.

“People have been classing us as Americana pop so we’re going with that!”

For those less obsessed by pigeon holing genres, Cameron said the music was just great for a knees-up.

He said: “As my dad always says, it’s idiot proof, you can always dance along to it and sing-a-long.

“It gets people in the mood and we try and interact with the crowd to get them in a joyful place.

“We’re able to strip it down to two acoustics, double bass, snare and brushes.

“But we’re also able to plug it all in and go all out.”

While Cameron may have tasted bigger things he has not been shy to join his band mates and graft in a grass roots style.

He said they had been turning up at pubs with all their instruments and just asking to play on the spot.

He said: “Instead of ringing up and asking for a gig we just turn up and give them a little taste of our stuff.

“Generally people seem to enjoy it and we’ve managed to get gigs out of it.

“We do it in a busking style, with two acoustic guitars, a double bass, snare and brushes.

“We can then hopefully come back later with our amps.

“We get a few looks sometimes when people are playing games like cards, darts or pool.

“We’ve had a few where they were playing games and we’ve been turned down quite abruptly as they didn’t want any interruptions.

“But we’ll carry on trying as we want to get more gigs around Huddersfield as we want to widen our fan base.”

The group have already showcased their music to a large crowd at Huddersfield’s Festival of Light and appeared on BBC Radio Leeds.

They are now aiming to record an album and hoping to expand their horizons beyond the Bradford and Huddersfield areas.

They will next appear at Saltaire Beer Festival on Saturday, February 22 followed by gigs at Sowerby Bridge boozer The Blind Pig on March 7 and Brighouse’s The Barge on April 6.