Formed at the back-end of 2013, The Villainy quickly gained some huge attention online for the quality of singer Ted Morris' writing abilities and the musical backing of friends Henrik Palm on guitar, Anton Svensson on bass and Marcus Carter on drums.

Here, The Villainy have exclusively given Female First readers 15 brilliant facts that they want old and new fans to know about them! Find out more...

  1. Marcus is the only one in the band who likes music enough to regularly listen to it.
  2. Ted got his first guitar on his 20th birthday. He looked at it in anger for three years, 'cause it didn't play itself before he managed to play a single song.
  3. On our second tour to England, our van broke down in Belgium. Belgium!
  4. The band's name is inspired by a line from the 12th century poem O Fortuna.
  5. Our song 'Go Tell Your Heart' was written on the actual guitar that appears on the rear cover of 'Gold' by Ryan Adams.
  6. Henrik and Marcus love 80s pop and regularly torture the rest of the band with their domination of the tour stereo.
  7. Anton was a pupil at the college where Marcus used to teach.
  8. We once had a teddy bear wearing a t-shirt with 'Ted' on it as a merchandise item. Ted's Mum was the only person who bought one.
  9. Ted lives in Finland, Marcus is English, Anton lives on the West Coast of Sweden and Henrik lives in the middle. Rehearsals are a logistical nightmare.
  10. One member of the band appears in Hot Fuzz - free CD to anyone who answers correctly which member and why!
  11. One member of the band has appeared on Swedish Idol - another free CD to anyone who answers correctly which member and why!
  12. We once met Chris Evans in a car park in Southampton by accident. He was off to buy a boat.
  13. Marcus grew up five miles away from Glastonbury but has never played the festival. He's not happy about this.
  14. Ted actually doesn't know any English at all. The lyrics are made up by a word generator and Ted just learns how they sound and sings them. He really has no idea what he's singing.
  15. We're all good at maths. Henrik knows the first 50 decimals of Pi by heart!

'Where The Beaten Go' is officially released on July 29.

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