Hey guys, good job of having the worst band name ever next to Arctic Monkeys. WTF??

When I first saw pictures of this band next to their name I wanted to go around their house and wake them with a screw driver in their ear. Like, kill the spawn of Nathan Barley before it hatches and destroys the country.

Then I sobered up enough to listen to the record and I got into it. If you close your eyes and forget about the misguided annoying NYC circa 2002 fashion sense, this band is actually great. Then you realise, whoops, that’s the point of it, they’re meant to piss you off. That’s because they hate everybody. That’s why they dropped out of college.

Vice: Why did you drop out?
Dev: I couldn’t stand being with those people every day. I just ended up skating anyway.

How was the social scene?
Used to smoke weed with the metal and hip hop kids. Used to get the crap beaten out of me quite a bit too. That was by people who didn’t go to my school and didn’t know me.

What did you do when you left?
I didn’t really know what to do. I didn’t want to get a job, so I used to spend literally days on end just skating. I ended up falling into that awful world of going to a club every night without actually liking the club or the music. Then that was where I met the rest of the band, they were doing the same thing. Thank god I got out of it otherwise I would have gone crazy.

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