The RockAteers

Created by author and <a href="spotify:artist:5JvOU5F0YZqxsoWLCjW9dm">Officer Kicks</a> frontman Jamie Scallion -- and brought to life sonically in 2013 by Mark Sheehan and Danny O'Donoghue's pop-focused rock act, <a href="spotify:artist:3AQRLZ9PuTAozP28Skbq8V">the Script</a> -- the RockAteers are the focal point of The Rock 'n' Roll Diaries, a series of novels for young adults that chart the rise to fame of a high school-formed, London-based band.

Comprised of self-confessed egomaniac Burt Windsor on vocals, <a href="spotify:artist:4Z8W4fKeB5YxbusRsdQVPb">Radiohead</a> fan, talented songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Edward "Egg" Poacher on guitar, knowing, hip-hop-inspired bass player Michael "Tea" Twining, and solid and likable footballer Justin Lee Clipper on drums, the RockAteers were founded against a backdrop of impending final-year exams. Once their lineup was completed -- during an X Factor-style audition led by Windsor and Poacher in the music room of Greenhive School in Greenwich, London -- the RockAteers made a start at perfecting a set of classic rock covers from the back catalogs of <a href="spotify:artist:36QJpDe2go2KgaRleHCDTp">Led Zeppelin</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3WrFJ7ztbogyGnTHbHJFl2">the Beatles</a>, among others. Then, with Poacher naturally emerging as the band's key songwriter, they were spurred on by a rapturously received debut gig of wholly original material at Windsor's 16th birthday party. Inter-band fighting ensued but, in turn, a combination of determination, social media, and a gig at London's prestigious Borderline -- as well as Dean St. Studios-recorded demos of the upbeat "Bet on You," the piano-led ballad "Satellites," and the brooding "Love and War" -- led to a label war to sign the band.

Inventively, back in the real world, demo clips of songs mentioned in book one, Making It, appeared online ahead of it being published. <a href="spotify:artist:3AQRLZ9PuTAozP28Skbq8V">The Script</a> took note of Scallion's descriptions of their music, adding an extra dimension to the RockAteers as a band, with both the music and the book ultimately supporting one another. ~ James Wilkinson, Rovi