I thought it was comical. Apparently a lot of other bands did too so it is a pretty common name but every man for himself.

This band literally spawned out of thin air. Toward the end of this year, 2007, I [adrian] was getting sick of working long hours, every day at my desk job. It was literally making me go insane. I found my mind trailing off to the most awkward of places most frequently.

On one of these monotonous days at the office, I was requested to sit through an Exonet training system - boring. Whilst sitting there thinking how simple the system appeared, I trailed off onto thoughts of Caleb Samuel's recent album. I disagreed with some of the lyrical content and wondered what it would be like if I recorded my own album for a change. I combined both ideas and decided I would create my own musical response to his creation.

I needed a catchy tune. It had to be punk, but it had to be clean enough to be taken seriously. Incidentally I was listening to a lot of Ramones at the time. I looked out the window and saw rain clouds gathering. It made me think of the song Blue Skies on Caleb's album. I decided I would produce a song quite the opposite.

It all came to me quite suddenly after this - the guitar chords, the vocal melody and the lyrics. I didn't do anything about it though for a month or two. Grey Skies just sat inside of my brain, playing over and over and over.

Eventually, I got myself together and pulled along Evan to play the drums and whipped up some demo tracks.

And there you have it - Youth in Asia was formed. That's the truth of the matter.

The CD will come out whenever we are finished.

Danzig era Misfits, NOFX, Minor Threat, Joey Ramone's solo music, Ramones, Bad Religion, Maximum the Hormone.