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Orphan Boy To Play Roger Sargent's Photography Launch

• 12th Jul 2010

Orphan Boy have been hand selected to play the launch of legendary Rock’n’Roll photographer Roger Sargent’s latest exhibition at Camden’s Proud Gallery on the 21st July 2010.

Onstage at 8.30pm.

Roger’s most famous for his depictions of The Libertines through the years, he has also recently shot the latest cover for the Orphan Boy album Passion, Pain and Loyalty.

Orphan Boy’s album Passion, Pain and Loyalty, will be released on the 2nd August 2010. The single ‘Pop Song’ will precede the album, on the 19th July 2010. Both single and album will be released through Manchester based Concrete Recordings.

Orphan Boy are a rock/pop trio that formed in Cleethorpes in February 2005. They soon got the fuck out of there and moved to Manchester where they signed to Concrete Recordings. (Though two of them are now back in their beloved Cleethorpes.)

They began by making a kind of post-post punk music in which choruses were forbidden and lots of guitar strings got snapped. This became known as Two-Chord Council Pop, the culmination of which was their (classic) debut album, ‘Shop Local’, released in 2008.

The Orphans have a loyal fanbase, known formally as the Bebop Council Pop Orphanite Anti-Social Brigade, informally as the Orphanites and a record label that claims to be guided by the ghost of John Peel. As a band they have learnt to buy bananas from service stations to gain best value for money and, once, nearly froze to death sleeping in Soho Square in the middle of winter.