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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