‘In a rotting town wrapped around the edge of a dirty sea, four mates, each and every one of them sick at the thought of forever standing on a crumbling coast and scanning the horizon, decided to do what they all did in the beginning and form a band. Sat up in their bedrooms on a wet Saturday night while, in all the characterful shabbiness of an out-of-season seaside town in the rain, the drizzled parks, soiled launderettes and dun pubs, everyone else was pissing their pay packet up the wall, they practiced; not until they could play, but until they couldn’t play it wrong. Lyrically, they are socially aware without forgetting their own place in the binge drinking and football chants of a Friday night out. Themes of violence, politics and escaping the average fate are presented with the wit of Morrissey and the passion of a young Paul Weller. With a sharp terrace mod image and influences from the Sex Pistols to Motown, The Small Faces to the Football Factory and a desperate plea for something more than the nine to five, Seaside Riot are a stand alone revelation in today’s music scene.’