The Horrors

The new, err, authentic voice of British youth:

The NME has cleared the front page this week to hail the
Horrors, a ghoulish five-piece from Southend, in Essex, who look like
Victorian undertakers and sound like Screaming Lord Sutch after a heavy
by-election defeat.

Led by the pseudonymous Faris Rotter and guitarist Joshua von Grimm, their signature tune, Sheena is a Parasite, is 1 minute and 20 seconds of screaming over a primal rock riff.

Hundreds of fans have been turned away from their chaotic live
shows, sometimes curtailed after 15 minutes, which are populated by
“14-year-old chav kids in Hallowe’en make-up”.

Sounds good eh? The true voice of the proletariat or something?

“We found 800 kids in Middlesbrough diving on to the dancefloor for
Sheena is a Parasite. We knew then that this was a real movement by kids looking for something new.”

So says the NME.

But they are not the wastrels they might appear. Rotter, otherwise
known as Faris Badwan, is a product of Rugby School. The son of a neuro
surgeon, Badwan, 19, hopes to complete his degree course at Central St
Martins College of Art and Design, if stardom does not interfere.

Von Grimm secured a first in physics at City University,
London, which he has put to use by designing circuitry for the band’s
guitar-effects pedals.

Or public schoolboys on the make?

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7 responses

  1. So young kids in the UK have discovered the Misfits. Fair enough well done on that bunch of public school boys.

  2. Discovered ’em in under thirty years flat, too. Not bad!
    Now if they can only learn to sing like Mario Lanza, they’ll be all set.

  3. The “authentic voice of youth” has frequently been a well-educated kid.
    Working class hero: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Class_Hero
    Class warrior: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Strummer

  4. The “authentic voice of youth” has frequently been a well-educated kid.
    Working class hero: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Class_Hero
    Class warrior: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Strummer

  5. Dr Maybe Avatar
    Dr Maybe

    How can you be for the market, and against someone who’s family has purchased their education?
    Tim adds: I’m not. Why do you ask?

  6. I think we’ve been here before with The Damned.

  7. I think we’ve been here before with The Damned.

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