2. Possibly from Sheffield or other major Northern industrial town

3. “The UK’s answer to The Strokes are finally here”

4. Ugly bunch of fuckers

5. Early in. They appeared 2001.

6. Their “On” feature in NME saw them wearing leather jackets and sunglasses having a bucket of water thrown over them.

7. Their album followed once no cared in 2002. Iwas called “or 8”.

actually not as bad an album as you might think.

9. Their “breakthrough” single was called So Young.

TS: Hoggboy vs Young Heart Attack

YHA kicked ass, and not just because they were produced by Cliff of Gay Dad fame (not the drummer)

10. Big in France (unless they were lying, an equally likely possibility.)

TS: Hoggboy vs Young Heart Attack

not fair, YHA were amazing.

I can vouch for 10, they were not lying (oh how I wish they were)

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12. Hoggboy have several different projects on the go at the moment. Hogg & Bailey have a new band project called the hosts. Richy is playing with Reverend And The Makers and Hugh is cooking food in Italy as you read this. Although their are no gigs planned for hoggboy at the moment, the band will gig again maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but some time soon!

ok i didn’t remember that one

So they were basically the Orlando of haircut indie?

but haircut indie before haircut indie really existed. 2003—2004 feels to me like the period haircut indie first became something more than teh rather difuse “nu rock revolution” and hoggboy were pre even that...