The Chalets

Thank god for The Chalets. This is pop - reckless, libidinous, and impertinent. It all began in a clamour of booze and hormones. Two girls, two boys, and a drummer (as the joke goes), inspired by a weekend of hedonism at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival somewhere in the south of England, decided to form a band. Learning instruments, writing songs and other such trivialities would be ironed out later.

Remarkably, this drunken notion actually took fruition and before long it was a whirlwind of boy-girl face-offs, loud guitars, xylophones, nurse uniforms, and indie-rock kids stunned into silence by this explosion of glamour in Dublin's bloke-y-local live scene.

Shockingly, Peepee, Pony, Dylan, Enda, and Chris had recorded and released their first single by May 2004. 'Theme From Chalets' begins with a twitching guitar, a shark in the water if you like, that explodes into a love/hate punch-up of flirting and seduction. On the flip side, 'Sexy Mistake' sees more boy-girl playground psychology set to an addictive indie-rock crunch. This song was used in heavy rotation on MTV for some daft promotional campaign featuring farm animals with trendy haircuts.

If you don't relate to either of these songs you were clearly never young.

(Official Biography by The Chalets)

Website: http://www.thechalets.com