Last night DCist ventured to one of our usual haunts to catch the Staines, England four piece, Hard Fi in their first visit to the city. The band’s been gaining cred in the UK since the release of Stars of CCTV in 2005; cred that includes a Mercury Music Prize. Their smart, catchy Brit pop, flavored with the hardships of growing up in a “cultural wasteland,” has worked its way into heavy iPod rotation on…