Then, in 2018, we’ve got some re-organising to do. “Album seven is halfway recorded, so we’ll try to finish that in time for Christmas. It’s really starting to grow me in good funk mould. Currently, from a musical point of view, we’re greasier with Leo Freire and Matthew T Milligan as the rhythm section than we’ve ever been. There was only ever one true falling out. When I consider the line-up changes over the years it’s 98% positive memories. It’s nothing new, he says, but also couldn’t be happier with the current situation – “I spent quite a few years writing & demoing the first album by myself. It was extraordinary for a support act to get that kind of love.”īrendan, always singular in his vision, is now also the only member of the line-up remaining. Regardless of age, they all knew “Teenage Dirtbag.” “I thought it would be good, but I wasn’t prepared for the crazy reception we got. He’s referring to his experience on tour with Busted last year, when those old enough to remember the early Noughties sang away with much newer fans. “That’s probably the most astonished I’ve ever been on-stage, when those kids sang back to us every night,” says the band’s Brendan B Brown.
It’s certainly reached subsequent generations to the one that moshed to it first time around. Like so many worldwide hits before and since, “Teenage Dirtbag”, the band’s ode-to-adolescence and inescapable breakthrough, seems timeless.
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