The Teenage Mothers are from Melbourne, Australia. band members: Jackson Kay (lead vocals), Raph Brous (guitar, vocals), Vyv Lyde (bass), Troy Ramaekers (drums),Louis Constant (keyboard).
Teenage Mothers are a lively bunch. Jackson Kay got arrested when, on tour supporting M83, he inhaled nitrous oxide, back-flipped into the crowd and almost set the stage on fire, then proceeded to get into a fight with bouncers. The latter allegedly threw him outside and assaulted him, leading to several broken ribs (his) and the intervention of the police, 15 of them “violently arrested” the singer, handcuffed him and locked him up for the night. He was fined $500 for being “drunk on the street” and M83 decided to kick Teenage Mothers off the tour, not least because, according to the headliners, JK looked “like a junkie”
JK, who left school at 16 to become a professional skateboarder, is a self-styled political activist who spent two weeks sleeping at the Occupy Melbourne protest. The songs he has written for the band’s debut EP and forthcoming album – both produced by Jim Sclavunos, drummer for Grinderman / Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – are about “broken love, dead-end jobs, injustice, and kicking against the pricks”. Suddenly, the band seem less interesting than their exploits. Their guitarist and joint vocalist, for example, has just written a novel, I Am Max Lamm, detailing the adventures of the eponymous antihero who is “on the run from the internet sex scandal that has derailed his burgeoning tennis career” and flees to London, where he “accidentally kills a 15-year-old Pakistani boy who tries to mug him and inadvertently sets off the worst race riot in a generation”
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