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The Young Playthings

Debut album "Who Invented Love?" - Out Now!!

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Watch the BRAND NEW "Hot sex with a Girl I Love" video
Director: Will Hodgson / DP and Camera: Andrew Alderslade
Starring: Abi Barragry, Bateman, Jors Truly, Tibor, Jas, Mark, James, Roger, Rosie, Jane, Jillian, Kirsten
Watch the video for Yr So Fit (For Me)
Director: Will Hodgson / DP and Camera: Andrew Alderslade / Acting advisor: Tim Neville
Starring: Bateman, Jors Truly, Tibor, Abi Barragry, Amy, Mark, Will, Tim
THE YOUNG PLAYTHINGS started playing together in a tiny shitbox of a rehearsal room in Elephant & Castle, the armpit of London, in October 2004.
Someone called me BATEMAN, after the American Psycho anti-hero, cuz slicking my hair back and wearing a suit helped me feel less insecure at a time when I was pretty unsettled in my life.
Pat chose JØRS TRULY as his stagename cuz he’s a goofy entertainer at heart and has a clever but strange way with words. We quickly shortened it to JT, in a nod to Timberlake and Pat’s dyspraxia.
TIBOR couldn’t decide on a pseudonym so just stuck to his real name, maybe because he’s a little more down-to-earth than me and JT. And as it is, though Tibor’s a pretty common name in Hungary, it’s pretty weird here in the UK.
Since those first tentative steps we’ve grown into a 40 stone toddler. We released three handmade singles between September 2005 and May 2006, then a real, proper album in May 2007, that we were originally going to call ‘What Have They Done With Your Daughters?’ but changed at the last minute to ‘WHO INVENTED LOVE?’ So, you see, only the question mark didn’t change.
In between writing and recording songs we kept playing them live too. Since we first emerged from that practice room in Elephant & Castle we’ve played, on average, like, once a week. Sometimes we were drunk, sometimes we didn’t get to soundcheck, sometimes one or more of us just didn’t feel like playing that night. But a good few nights we were shit hot and on the best of nights we might just have become your new favourite band, even if only fleetingly.
As for our influences? In between the songs about different girls we know in different cities all over the world we have one about staying around, one about growing up, one about a porn star, one about Christina Ricci, one about Britney Spears and one about The Replacements. That about says it all.
As for the future? More songs, more shows, more all-night parties, more friends, more drinks and lots more love. And if you catch us on the right night, we still might become your new favourite band.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/23/2005
Band Website: smalltownamerica.co.uk/
Band Members: Bateman , Jors Truly, Tibor
Sounds Like: Modest Mouse
Weezer
Fugazi
Pavement
The Replacements
Bruce Springsteen
The Mr T Experience
The Queers
Belle and Sebastian
Superchunk
Blink 182

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Press Quotes

"Guitar pop with a smile on its face" - Oxford Nightshift, January 2008

"Welcome to a harmony-led paradise... 8/10" - Ben Marwood, Drowned in Sound, May 2007 album review

"One of the finest, self-assured debuts you’re likely to hear this year. Get ready to fall in love." - David McLaughlin, Alternative Ulster, May 2007 album review

" 'Who Invented Love?' acts as the curve-ball to their melee of concise pop-punk delivery. String quartets pepper the album, and the arrangements push the boundaries of indie-pop with gleeful reverie." - Jonathan Falcone, Playlouder, May 2007 album review

"Jam packed with sparkly jangly guitars, catchy choruses and delicious harmonies, tales of the highs and lows of love, the heartache of being apart, and each with the optimistic pathos that celebrates the zest and vibrancy of being young." - Rob Barnett, Music News May 2007 album review

"This is sun-scorched power pop that drips with the sass of teenage abandon and the bent harmonies of mid-period Pavement. Its optimistic, American-tinged indie rock..." Josh Temple, thedownloader.co.uk - Yr So Fit (For Me) single review June 2006

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Record Label: http://www.smalltownamerica.co.uk
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Recording, Spain etc

It's been awhile  haven't been as busy recently, getting lazy in our old age, or something. However, we still exist, here's what been happening dude...:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microso...
Posted by The Young Playthings on Mon, 26 May 2008 10:48:00 PST

Club Playthings 4: Mephisto Grande, The Young Playthings, Turn Again Lane!

Hello Hello friends, Thursday 29 May brings us the next instalment of the award-winning Club Playthings, and this month will be just as good as the last. We've got music from Mephisto Grande, the usua...
Posted by The Young Playthings on Thu, 22 May 2008 01:52:00 PST

On tour in Spain this week

Hello pals, This week we are all super excited about going to Spain to play some shows with our friends from CreamPop. We’re currently in the process of cutting off tight jeans to create standar...
Posted by The Young Playthings on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:51:00 PST

Club Playthings 2 with Francis Pugh & The Whiskey Singers

Hello you salty dogs, this week we’re playing the second in our series of Club Playthings at the port Mahon in Oxford with the indubitable Francis Pugh and the Whiskey Singers. They drink and si...
Posted by The Young Playthings on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:27:00 PST

Club Playthings

So, it actually paid off, schmoozing with Huw Stephens a couple of weeks ago. He played Hot Sex the other night on his show and plugged the video afterwards, which was good of him (and right on too - ...
Posted by The Young Playthings on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:31:00 PST

New news

We haven't practiced in ages, but we've still been pretty busy. The Hot Sex, digital download-only single is out on 14 February (Valentine's Day for all you misery guts out there!) Have a look at the ...
Posted by The Young Playthings on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:11:00 PST

Hot Sex on Alcopopular Vol II

For those of you out there who remember the good ole days of mix tapes, you can now get Hot Sex on the limited edition Alcopolular Vol. 2 from our friends at Alcopop!, who have put together ...
Posted by The Young Playthings on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:31:00 PST

New Hot Sex Video

Hello pals, In the run up to the release of the Hot Sex EP on Valentine's Day, we've just released a video for said wonderful song. It involves sex, suits, drugs, love and buggery. Watch it...
Posted by The Young Playthings on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:28:00 PST

Bateman’s Best Of 2007

I'm not a religiously 'new music' person, more the bargain-bin guy. Every year, before Christmas when I'm supposed to be buying presents for my nearest and dearest, I always treat myself to a shitload...
Posted by The Young Playthings on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:30:00 PST

Last show of the year!

Okay, after my exceptionally long (and totally exceptional in all other ways) tour diary, just a short one for you... We're playing ONE last show before the end of the year: Friday 7 December @ The Be...
Posted by The Young Playthings on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:55:00 PST