Boys Forever

Before Patrick Doyle started writing and playing his own music in Boys Forever, he amassed a very impressive CV. In the mid-2000s he helped form Glaswegian indie pop group the Royal We, playing guitar. After one stellar mini-album released in 2007 for the Geographic label, the group splintered. Doyle joined fellow bandmembers in a new band, Sexy Kids, who released one classic noise pop gem, "Sisters Are Forever," on U.S. indie pop factory Slumberland in 2008. That same year Doyle, this time playing bass, joined Franz Ferdinand drummer Paul Thomson in the angular pop band Correcto, who released one album in 2008 for Domino. Both bands weren't very long-lived, and in 2009 Doyle joined former Royal We/Sexy Kids guitarist Roxanne Clifford and ex-Your Twenties guitarist James Hoare to form Veronica Falls. This time, Doyle set aside stringed instruments and settled in behind the drums, as well as teaming with Hoare to provide backing vocals. The band issued a string of singles in its first two years, then two very well-received albums (2011's Veronica Falls and 2013's Waiting for Something to Happen) for Slumberland. After their second album's tour schedule wound down in mid-2014, Veronica Falls went on a hiatus and the bandmembers began working in earnest on their own projects. In early 2015, Doyle started writing songs on an old four-track recorder, playing all the parts himself. After taking the name Boys Forever, he hooked up with the Amour Foo label and released the "Poisonous" single in January of 2016. Later that month, Doyle put together a live band with Helen Skinner on bass and old mate Paul Thomson on drums, and played two shows at Glasgow's Old Hairdresser club. The next month the group, this time with Andy Knowles on drums, played a show at the Glory in London. Both shows were recorded and released on a limited-edition cassette. The self-titled Boys Forever album was recorded at home by Doyle and in Los Angeles, and was put out by Amour Foo in August of 2016. Sadly, Doyle died in March 2018 at the age of 32.
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