The Spook School - I'll Be Honest by Fortuna POP!

The first single from the debut album 'Dress Up' by Edinburgh quartet The Spook School is the brilliant “I’ll Be Honest”. ‘Dress Up’ is out in October on Fortuna POP! You can read funny things about them on their website here: http://thespookschool.com/

Inspired by the post-punk-pop of Buzzcocks, Lou Reed’s ‘Transformer’ and the films of Buster Keaton, with a dash of 60s pop for good measure, The Spook School are Nye Todd on guitar with Adam Todd also on guitar and Anna Cory on bass, not forgetting Niall McCamley who plays drums, tells jokes and takes his clothes off. They all sing and shout and write the music together. There is no leader and no ‘frontperson’. They’re a band.

“I’ll Be Honest” is written by Nye and is about spending time with a group of about ten or so friends and realising that some of them knew a lot more about him than others. Of course, the ones he felt he knew best were the ones that he tended to go out and get drunk with. There’s something nice about late-night/early morning confessions that might not even be remembered in the morning. The line “I’m making excuses for myself again, to make things easier for you” - holding things back because you don’t want to cause hurt or even inconvenience to other people, creating excuses ‘for their own good’ that really don’t help anyone.