There are a few gaps in my musical knowledge and one of them is broadly labelled ‘Soundwave’. I’m pretty sure The Dirty Youth are a Soundwave kind of band – a shouty, electric guitar pounding collection of misfits. Generally speaking I quite like an angry youth – I find all that directionless rage pretty endearing – but every now and again an angry youth band like this comes along, which is basically just a hepped up RAWK version of The Veronicas, and I think, ‘What is this Proterozoic, commericial punk nonsense you are peddling? Where the hell were you idiots when OK Computer was released?’ And then I realise the answer is probably, ‘Not born’ and I feel sad for myself.
The Dirty Youth : Last Confession
