aaamusic | On 05, Jul 2012

Paraic and Michael Morrissey (20), Harry Weskin (19) and Benjamin Deschamps (19) began playing music together whilst studying for their GCSE’s. There were no grand aspirations; it was simply “something to do after school.”

However, towards the end of their final year they started to realise that they “might be onto something” and agreed to perform in front of their peers at the end of their school prom. They played ‘Biggest Fan’ and as Michael recalls, “No one was interested or listening but we got to sing ‘fuck me up the arse’ on our school stage which was a good moment.”

They’ve come rather a long way since then. After winning the Vice Magazine/Kopperberg Klash battle of the bands last year they have supported the likes of The Vaccines, Jamie N Commons and Zulu Winter and were recently invited to play at The Great Escape Festival.

Blending strange storytelling with big chunks of macabre yet catchy guitar music, their lyrical content is rather risqué, however, it’s delivered with such sharp British irony and a naughty twinkle in their eye that we challenge you to find these boys anything but abundantly charming.

‘Naughty Corner’ is the band’s first official single and will be released on Edwyn Collins’ label AED Records on 9th July. The video, which was directed by friend of the band Gerald McMorrow at 76 Films, was inspired by the world of 50’s ‘Teaserama’. Consisting of found footage, a collection of unseen rushes from a long forgotten production including projectionist’s cuts, screen tests and clips of larger unseen performances that homage the work of classic 50’s fetish film director Elliot Castle of whom the band and the director are fans. More can be found on him here: http://elliotcastlefanblog.wordpress.com/

The band previously self directed and produced a video for the track ‘Waiting on the Doorstep’ (which was filmed in the Morrisseys’ father’s council flat in Elephant and Castle) which has garnered over 13,500 views (http://youtu.be/z-XT6MTIh-E) and is available as a free download from: http://filthyboy.bandcamp.com/

Live:

17th July @ Madame Jojo’s supporting Toy