Me: Why do you stare at me so, Late of the Pier?

LOTP: We are confused as to why we are acting like massive fannies and dissipating to form separate side projects!

Me: You sure are

This isn’t 20 minutes before the lesson and I don’t desperately need to write and essay! What I’m trying to say is, this is one of the few times I sincerely hope Wikipedia is indeed wrong

The answer ‘Late of the Pier’ is usually met with a mildly baffled ”Who?” or a smugly scoffed ”Them?”, when I am (veritably infrequently) asked about my favourite bands. However the skinny ””””””””’nu-rave””””””””’ quartet have held a well-lit, softly furnished place in my heart ever since the release of their stonking debut, ‘Fantasy Black Channel’*

Yes, it generally takes me more than the usual amount human conversational interest for me to explain that ”my favourite song is  of ‘Broken’ by Late of the Pier”, and ”have you heard the Fairy Lights remix - it is absolutely orgasmic”, and to then nerdily explain that ”actually, Fairy Lights was just an assumed moniker for themselves! They’re quite enigmatic like that”, but I do it, and I’ll continue to do it, goddammit, until I see the white light!

*Well actually it was ever since I saw their malnourished, triangular body-painted bodies writhing around in the sack of creative low-budgetness that was the video for the gloriously high-key ”Bathroom Gurgle”. This inspired me to acquire their absolutely diamond ‘Zarcorp Demo’; cue many lazy 15-year-old after-schools spent lying in a Sunny Afternoon, jizzing along to the sadly album-rejected ‘Sober Up’