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Toy

(Antonio Manuel Neves Ferrao)

Hyped to the eyeballs and cooler then school, Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong were billed as the saviours of British guitar pop in the late-2000s, only for their album release to be blocked and the group to be ridiculed as a hipster joke. Their implosion led to old school friends Tom Dougall (brother of Rose Elinor Dougall of The Pipettes), Dominic O'Dair (guitar) and Maxim 'Panda' Barron (bass) turning to dark, psychedelic rock and being reborn as TOY in 2010. Signed to Heavenly Records, they were championed by The Horrors and The Vaccines and a more measured amount of media buz...