Spoort: "I just let the wig guide me"

Hello, Dear Readers. Remember Homeschool, that festival we held a few weeks ago? You know, the one with all the recorded performances from home, the one that got more viewers than people through the gate at Glasto – that festival. Well, while we loved every one of the performances, there was definitely one that stuck out, sent in by Spoort.

Their submission, hosted by 'Michael Fabricant' ("It was me in my girlfriend's wig that she had from when she dressed as Princess Diana for a party," laughs keyboardist Kingy) was part fake chat show, part music video, and gloriously silly. We like silly here at Dork HQ, so we thought we'd call up the band and see what they were all about.

"They had a Lazer Quest about 20 years ago too, that was pretty good," Kingy chips in, completely deadpan. "But not much going on, to summarise. We basically met by all going to the same school, me and the bassist Dec knew each other from primary school and used to play together – we played in assembly once in Year 6, went down a storm. Well, I think it did anyway, although that could be nostalgia talking. Then we met Paul, our guitarist and singer in Year 8, and finally completed the set with Ross in Year 10."

"I used to watch their band before we met properly though," Ross explains. "I lived a few doors up from Dec, so I'd go and see their band, and then I told my dad I was gonna learn drums and play with them, and the rest, as they say, is history.