Wild Beasts are a new age pop band that originated in Kendal, England in 2002. The bands' first single, Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants, placed 17th in a national independent record labels chart and won Steve Lamacq's Rebel Playlist on BBC 6 Music in January 2007. In 2002, Queen Katherine School students Hayden Thorpe and Ben Little formed the duo Fauve, the French term for wild beast, and began writing original pop songs.[1] In January 2004, the band acquired the drumming skills of Chris Talbot, otherwise known as 'Bert' and changed the bands' name to The Wild Beasts.[1] Wild Beasts quickly moved into their first practice studio at Mintsfeet Industrial Estate. With the aid of Gareth Bullock (a stand in bassist), in June 2004 the band began recording their first demo EP titled 'Wild Beasts'.