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You Animals Release Double A Side Single

• 21st Jan 2011

You Animals' first single for This Is Fake DIY Records is a game of two halves, both taken from debut album, 'Crimes, Creeps & Thrills'.

'What A Shame, Lorraine' combines a nagging keyboard hook, a Marr-esque guitar pattern, some big 'Bohemian Rhapsody' harmonies and a (true) teenage tale of being led astray for three years by a mystical girl who for some unfathomable reason takes a shine to you, grants you both a musical and seedy sexual awakening, and then ends up dead. Charming.

Flip side 'Halfway to Heartbreak' is an infectious three-minute blast of regret. It's about messing up that one relationship you've never given a shit about and glimpses of a future akin to the 'bad' 1985 in Back to the Future. It's not all doom and gloom, though; a huge shout-along chorus, some super-sharp guitars, dash of gang vocals, a few handclaps and a touch of cowbell come on like an aural ray of sunshine and you're dreaming of hoverboards once again.

You Animals formed on New Year's Day following the violent breakup of a previous band. They mash guitars in to keyboards to make scrappy pop anthems.

They rehearse in a tiny building called The Bakery in the middle of one of the less desirable areas of town ('town' being Derby in this case). They have to move their stuff in and out in the middle of the night in order to avoid drawing attention from the crazy man across the road who thinks they're stealing his electricity, and chases them across the car park with pieces of broken glass.

You Animals are Ryan, Liza, Mark, Matt, Martin and Stuart.

Ryan constantly gets mistaken for Tim Wheeler from Ash and has signed autographs as him when the occasional Ash fan just won't believe he's not him. Apparently not having an Irish accent isn't proof.

The rest of the band are convinced that Liza is related to royalty, yet she will neither confirm nor deny this.

Mark runs a number of online 'businesses' (don't ask) to supplement the income he makes from driving other bands (Johnny Foreigner, The Joy Formidable, Dog Is Dead).

Whilst entering a low-roofed car park and in an act of unprecedented panic, Matt ripped the roof clean off the band's first van on the same day they bought it.

Martin and Stuart are twins born on September 11th. They write the basis of most of the band's songs. Brotherly love sometimes runs low which leads to the occasional on-stage fight.