Gothic Theatre

Ballboy

ballboy are three boys and one girl.

the boys are: gordon mcintyre who sings and plays the guitar nick reynolds who plays bass guitar and sings too gary morgan who plays the drums

the girl is: katie griffiths who plays keyboards and has also been known to sing too, on occasion.

the band formed in January 1999.

ballboy’s first release was the ep, ‘silversuitsforastronauts’, in November of 1999. ‘i hate scotland’ was released in June 2000 and ‘girls are better than boys’ came out in March 2001. The three ep’s have since been compiled on ‘club anthems 2001’ (UK release October 2001) and ‘club anthems’ (US release March 2002).

The next release was the 4-track ep ‘all the records on the radio are shite’ which had some great reviews and one really bad one from the NME. ballboy learned a lesson from this—never let the man from the NME know that you are smarter than him. It upsets him no end.

As this is written in November of 2002, ballboy have just released their first proper album—’a guide for the daylight hours’ complete with accompanying artwork by the fantastic Scottish-based artist David Shrigley.

To date the band have recorded two sessions for John Peel (Dec 2000 and April 2002—live from Maida Vale) and numerous sessions for the Evening Session in Scotland on Radio 1 and various other shows. Sometimes this is Gordon with an acoustic guitar, sometimes it is the whole band.

They have also had 3 entries in 2 separate Festive 50 charts, but none in the UK charts. No-one here can work out why this is.

ballboy all live in edinburgh, scotland.