A TEENAGE four-piece are hitting the national airwaves this weekend.
Rock band The Capitals, four Catholic High pupils from Upton and Mickle Trafford, have been invited to perform on Radio One programme BBC Switch and come up with a jingle for the show.
DJs Annie Mac and Dave Grimshaw will chat with the year 11 and 12 students before their specially-composed clip is played live on air.
Lead singer and guitarist 16-year-old Ed Black, will speak on behalf of bandmates Ciaran Preedy, 16, on bass and backing vocals, Mike Spriggs, 16, on guitar and 15-year-old drummer Rory Keegan.
Mike, of Walnut Close, Upton, said: “Someone wrote on our Myspace page ‘you should sign up for this’ on Sunday night so we did and the next day we got the call saying they wanted us to appear.
“We got told to add a sentence about Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac in the jingle. We’ll be a contender for their house band for the night.”
The band have been going for four years since Mike and Ed started having guitar lessons at Catholic High.
They list The Wombats, The Pigeon Detectives, Arctic Monkeys and The Fratellis among their indie influences but plan to carve their own path.
Tracks available to listen to on their Myspace page include On The Rush, Racecourse, a cover of Stronger by Kanye West and It’s Me or Him.
It is a well deserved break for the band, who were turned down for TV talent show T4 mobile Act Unsigned.
Mike says they were rejected because they were too young, but BBC Switch is aimed at 14-17 year olds.
On October 30, the band will go into Autumn Road Studios in Wrexham, to record their new EP.
Tune in at 8.20pm on Sunday to hear the band’s national radio debut.
