25 Hour Convenience Store

25 Hour Convenience Store are set to release the debut single for a fantastic band hailing from Southend in Essex.
Plastic Youth have been in existence for just over a year now, and recorded their debut offering’s “Death Row” and “Animal Style” during 2011. Produced by Nick McCabe (Verve and Black Ships guitarist), who the band describe as “a Fucking genius”, and claim “it just feels right working with him. He really understands us.”
The double AA sided single will be available on limited edition 7” inch vinyl from April 16th 2012, and is set to be released digitally on the 23rd April through 25 Hour Convenience Store. ‘Death Row‘ describes the current breakdown in society, and the problem of youth fighting youth, when “we should be fighting the oppressive government and the banks”.
The band say they “write political and ambiguous songs, not love songs about losing your pony to aids or hair rock anthems about going down in a lift, we write songs about how we feel and what affects us and our friends and family”
The promo video for the single was written and directed by Irvine Welsh collaborators Dean Cavanagh and Bob Morris, who have made promotional videos for Keane, and Gene as well as all of Irvine’s TV productions, Wedding Belles, Dose & Good Arrows.
Interestingly enough the band are related to Higgs/Bosen element scientists Dr Higgs who laid the basis of the Big Bang Theory.
James Higgs of the band comments “There’s limited choice, around where we live, Southend is a very jealous town and has a solitary, island mentality. Our local radio station is around the corner from where I live, the so called trendy DJ with his jeans below his arse won’t play our music, but XFM and NME will, how does that work? ”