A PUPIL support teacher, an architectural technician, a restaurant manager, a maths prodigy and a guy whose occupation has to remain classified, walk into a rehearsal room...sounds like the start of a bad joke your drunken uncle would tell at your auntie’s wedding, fortunately it’s

not.

OSKAR BRAVES are a 5 piece band from Fife whose paths crossed whilst slugging it out in previous bands as teenagers who dreamed of being the next Arctic Monkeys. And they include guitars Grant Allan from Crossgates, and Conor Young, from Cowdenbeath, both former Beath High School pupils. The other band members are vocals, David Stevens from Kirkcaldy; and Dunfermline lads Connor Marnie, bass; and Andrew Davidson, drums.

But as time progresses, so do people’s preferences and ambitions. They got together in 2016, not because they are all into the same music, but because they aren’t. The

hotpot of influences allows OSKAR BRAVES to produce sounds like no other.

Bored of the Brit-Pop revival which seems to be dominating the scene, OSKAR BRAVES have no desire to revive anything but to start afresh take-on guitar music.

With this in mind, it allows them to create music freely without trying to pigeonhole themselves into a specific genre.

Grant said: "We have supported chart toppers such as Catfish and the Bottlemen, Blossoms and embrace and Glasvegas and head to Germany in October to do a few shows.

"We want to highlight that young musicians in the Cowdenbeath-Lochgelly area should get in touch with us for advice and guidance about growing as a band and branching out of town, we would be delighted to help in any way we can".

OSKAR BRAVES write music that they would listen to. That doesn’t mean you’ll like it but at least they do.