The Midnight Beast

- Season 1

(2012)

The first episode we meet the band in their crappy flat in South London England where they have no money and try to trick a pizza delivery girl into giving them free pizza by fooling the restaurant with the wrong address so they can get the pizza for free garlic bread because of their 30 minute delivery time rule. Ash the self proclaimed ladies man gives her a lame strip tease to get the pizza. She is a fan of the band so reluctantly lets this go. Their horrible manager comes over to see how they are doing and Stef asks when they will be able to get a performance ...

Stef stays up all night editing a rubbish animated video for the band's new track Booty Call. And Dru miraculously receives a maintenance cheque from his long-estranged dad. But when Ash unplugs the computer to make space for his video game, the entire music video is lost. Dru offers up his father's 'dirty money' to make a new video to be directed by art world icon Falco, played by Gerald Kyd. But the band soon realise it may be better to keep creative control... Three videos feature in this episode: Medium Pimpin, Daddy and Booty Call.

When the Beast's manager Chevy finally gets them a gig on a TV show, the boys are hit by a crisis of confidence after bumping into a mouthy hardcore band who are also appearing. They decide to try to change their image to compete, but discover that they should have had more faith in their own quirky style, as it might have avoided them being thrown off live TV when their performance doesn't quite go to plan.

The Midnight Beast are at crisis point... Dru has become hypnotised by his war-themed video games and Ash is being led around by the lump in his pants, leaving Stef to keep the band together. In an emergency intervention, their manager Chevy bans Dru from video games and urges him to get a girlfriend. Ash is forbidden from touching any girl until the band's problems are solved. Meanwhile, a wild-eyed obsessive girl called Frog, played by Hannah Tointon, falls head over heels for Dru, much to the horror of his flatmates. Two songs feature in this episode: Videogames ...

The Midnight Beast have had enough of their budget starving-artist lifestyle. Chevy is just not cutting the mustard as their manager any more. The guys want money and fame, and they want it now. Unbeknown to the band, Dru takes matters into his own hands and makes a devil's pact with major label boss Jay Chitole. Will the group trade in their independence for sexy motorbikes and intergalactic superstardom and become just another boyband? Songs in this episode include: J£nny: Ready to Blow, Lez Be Friends and Just Another Boyband.

Sloman breaks into the band's flat after a massive party and sets up a makeshift studio in their front room, where he broadcasts all their secrets and videos. The songs include: I Kicked a Shark in the Face, Videogames, Life Is a Musical and Lez Be Friends.