THE band allusinlove describe themselves as “a four-headed monster” producing “music to move you, music to fight to, music to fall in love to”

Apparently.

And the good news is, they will be appearing at the 2000 Trees Festival at Upcote Farm, Withington, near Cheltenham, which runs from July 11 to July 13.

A spokesman said: “The band – consisting of Jason Moules (Vocals/Guitar), Andrej Pavlovic (Guitar), Jemal Beau Malki (Bass), Connor Fisher-Atack (Drums) – has existed, under various guises, for around six years. Originally from Castleford, an old mining town in West Yorkshire, they were brought together by a mutual love of smoking weed and the hazy idea of forming a cross-dressing band, with little aim other than to shock people for the hell of it.”

As you do.

The spokesman added: “When their first gig, on Halloween night 2012, resulted in eight bookings in as many weeks, they knew they were onto something altogether more special.”

“So many people are just try-hards and wannabes,” Jason says. “I don’t mean it in a harsh way, but how many people do you know who say they’re in a band and practice once a week? We got together five times a week because we wanted to play music. So when we were ready to gig, people wanted to book us.”

The group quickly engineered a loyal following with their often shambolic, never boring live shows.

Connor said:, “there was no trickery going on. It was just a raw performance”.

And, what’s more, it connected, too – the band selling out shows up and down the country, with 300 people crammed into 100 capacity venues “and a following that transcended any sort of tribalism or cliques”.