
Orphan Boy are proud to announce the release of their album Passion, Pain and Loyalty’ on the 2nd August 2010. The single Pop Song’ will precede the album, on the 19th July 2010. Both single and album will be released through Manchester based Concrete Recordings. The album Passion, Pain and Loyalty will be available digitally and on CD, the single Pop Song’ will be available as a digital release only.Orphan Boy are a rockpop trio that formed in Cleethorpes in February 2005. They soon got the fuck out of there and moved to Manchester where they signed to Concrete Recordings. Though two of them are now back in their beloved CleethorpesThey began by making a kind of post-post punk music in which choruses were forbidden and lots of guitar strings got snapped. This became known as Two-Chord Council Pop, the culmination of which was their classic debut album, Shop Local’, released in 2008.Orphan Boy have played Glastonbury four times, twice under an alias The orphans have a loyal fanbase, known formally as the Bebop Council Pop Orphanite Anti-Social Brigade, informally as the Orphanites and a record label that claims to be guided by the ghost of John Peel As a band they have learnt to buy bananas from service stations to gain best value for money and, once, nearly froze to death sleeping in Soho Square in the middle of winter.
