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Death of Guitar Pop

While taking lyrical influence from social observations in the work of songwriters such as Suggs, Damon Albarn, and Alex Turner, Essex, U.K.'s mid-2010s-formed Death of Guitar Pop see their ska revival obsession through a Brit-pop filter and craft knowing, uplifting, danceable tunes. Although frontman Olly "Silky" Hookings spent his teen years listening to Green Day, Limp Bizkit, and Foo Fighters, his first musical love was the Divine Madness VHS, a gift from his father when he was only five years old. Comparatively, guitarist Jonny "Top Kat" Hick's teen years were spent with Beatles', Oasis', and Stone Roses' records never far from the stereo. Both ultimately fronted bands that regularly played on the Essex gig circuit. Hookings' shoegaze-tinged indie rockers States of Emotion started out in 2001 as a school-formed Green Day covers band. Due to various industry travails, it took until 2016 for their debut album to surface. Meanwhile, Hick's mod-styled the Tomorrow Men had a similar career trajectory during the early 2010s: lots of work for little reward. When both bands were placed on the same bill, a post-gig discussion led to the pair bonding, first over the Stone Roses and then over ska. From there, things moved swiftly. A jam led to a debut Death of Guitar Pop single, self-released in October 2016 on White Room, the same label used earlier in the year to issue States of Emotion's Black & White to Gold. Next, a March 2017 cover of the Melodians' "Sweet Sensation" began to endear them to original fans of ska revival. None other than Neville Staple agreed to be featured on their next single, "Suburban Ska Club," boosting their profile -- and that of Ska Club Essex!, the newly minted imprint on which it appeared -- considerably. A full-band live debut at Oslo in Hackney also helped to promote their November debut LP, 69 Candy Street. The record was produced at Woods Lounge Studios by the Milk's Mitch Ayling, who also performed on drums and keyboards during the sessions. Although Death of Guitar Pop continued to market themselves as a duo, other players who'd been featured went on to back the band both on-stage and in the studio for several years. The core ensemble included brass players borrowed from both the Style Council and Bad Manners, Bonzai -- Hookings' schoolfriend and long-serving States of Emotion bassist -- and George Brown on guitar. Death of Guitar Pop returned in August 2018 with their autobiographical "Ska Is the Bollocks," and then again in early 2019 with "You'll Be Fine Sunshine." Both songs appeared on that year's In Over Our Heads, a record that featured Martin Willoughby, a keys player who began to make occasional songwriting contributions, namely on album tracks "The Squires" and "Choppers." A tongue-in-cheek 2019 seasonal single, "Feeling Like a Right James Blunt at Christmas," featured James Buckley of The Inbetweeners fame and was released in support of CALM (the Campaign Against Living Miserably). Post-2-Tone artist King Hammond appeared on and co-wrote their January 2021 single, "DOGP Shuffle," which was followed in April with a cover of Rancid's "Junkie Man," in a telling nod to third wave ska. The accompanying album, Pukka Sounds, was their first to reach the U.K. Top 30 and included "When the Ska Calls" a track composed alongside Gary Knight of AKA the Syndicate. January 2023's "Bosh!" -- featuring local businessman and Apprentice contestant Tom Skinner -- helped October's Be Lucky get the duo back into the Top 30.
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