The Boyfriends were an indie

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 four-piece musical group from London

London

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, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, who consisted of Martin Wallace on vocals, Richard Adderley on guitar, David Barnett on bass and Paddy Pulzer

Paddy Pulzer

Patrick Pulzer is a drummer/percussionist from Oxford, England who has been in numerous British indie bands. He started out in 1984 with the band Shake Appeal, who eventually evolved into Swervedriver after Pulzer's departure. Pulzer left Shake Appeal in 1989 to join the band Jack. He has also...

 on drums. Adderley and Pulzer had previous played together in Jack

Jack (band)

Jack were a British alternative rock band formed in Cardiff, Wales, in 1992. Their orchestral pop was heavily influenced by artists such as Scott Walker and drew comparisons to Pulp, Tindersticks and The Divine Comedy...

.

First coming to prominence in June 2005 after becoming the first band ever to play the newly-christened John Peel

John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...

 Stage at that year's Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival

The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.The...

, they have been likened to The Smiths

The Smiths

The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...

 by the British press. This drew interest from Morrissey

Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,...

 who, after going to one of their shows, was supposedly so impressed he offered them the supporting slot on his 2006 Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an tour on the spot.

The band split in late 2006, following a tour in support of The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature...

. As of 2007 their record company, Boobytrap, has collapsed and the band's website no longer exists. Boobytrap Records boss "Baz" implied that the band had split due to poor management in an interview with Playlouder

PlayLouder

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.http://www.playlouder.co.uk/news/+booby-trap-door/

Since the split, Adderley, Barnett and Pulzer have also been working on music together. Barnett formed a supergroup of sorts under the name The New Royal Family (featuring Adderley on bass, and present and former members of Gay Dad

Gay Dad

In 2001 the leading single from Transmission - "Now Always and Forever" - was released. It fell just short of the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart. An extensive UK tour was followed by a limited edition single "Harder, Faster". The third single "Transmission" was released just before the album came...

, Luxembourg

Luxembourg (band)

Luxembourg were a British five-piece indie band. For most of their life, the lineup consisted of David Shah , Rob Britton , Alex Potterill , Jon Bacon and Steve Brummell . Bassist Jon left the band at the end of 2006 and was replaced by David Barnett...

, Scarlet's Well

Scarlet's Well

Scarlet's Well are a British pop band formed in 1998 by Bid of The Monochrome Set, after the latter band amicably split for the second time.They originally started as a studio project, the first four albums featuring a total of ten lead vocalists, including Bid , Zarif and Alice Healey, the latter...

 and Salad

Salad (band)

Salad were a UK-based pop music group formed in London in 1992, that included Dutch vocalist/keyboardist Marijne van der Vlugt, bassist Pete Brown, drummer Rob Wakeman , and guitarist Paul Kennedy...

, amongst others), as well as joining Luxembourg. Adderley has acted as producer for both bands.

Singles

Date	Single	Backed with	Record label	Other details
September 30, 2004	"No Tomorrow"	"I Love You"	Filthy Little Angels	Split 7" with The Long Blondes The Long Blondes The Long Blondes were a five-piece English indie rock band formed in Sheffield, United Kingdom in 2003 by Dorian Cox , Reenie Hollis , Emma Chaplin , Kate Jackson and Screech Louder .After several critically...
February 2006	"I Love You"	"Remember"	Boobytrap Records	7" only
May 2006	"Adult Acne"	"Tears Before Bedtime"	Boobytrap Records	7" only
September 2006	"Once Upon a Time"	"They Don't Know About Us They Don't Know (Kirsty MacColl song) "They Don't Know" is a popular song, written and composed by singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl, the daughter of singer-songwriter Ewan MacColl. Ms. MacColl recorded it in 1979. It became popular on radio in the United Kingdom, reaching #2 on the Music Week airplay chart... ", "Apathy In The UK"	Boobytrap Records	CD single

External links

• official Myspace.com page
• The New Royal Family (featuring David Barnett and Richard Adderley)
• Small Crew (featuring Richard Adderley)
• NME.com page - archive of Boyfriends news and coverage
• Drownedinsound.com page - online coverage