Biography

Young Fathers are so called because each member is named after his dad.

Alloysious Massaquoi and Kayus Bankole attended Boroughmuir High School, which was named the Scottish state secondary of the year in 2012.

[during the referendum the group received several requests from both sides for support, in particular from the Yes campaign, who tended to make the assumption that all creatives were pro-independence - they refused to get involved] Did I really care? Did any of us really care? Let's say Scotland got independence, what next? There was a lot of fear: oh, no, John Lewis is going to get more expensive! Obviously the stuff Salmond said made sense but everything in politics makes sense if you take it at face value. I always felt like an outsider. [They won't say who they will vote for in the General Election, or if they will vote at all.]

[Young Fathers have just come back from dates in South Africa and Russia and they recently toured the United States for the first time] The customs guys! They don't f*** about!