The Dropouts has been played on NTS shows including The Numero Group, with Purple Sea first played on 25 February 2020.

Dropouts are a successful (ahem) celtic punk band formed in early 2008 and based in Reading, Berkshire. We're a band like no other. We have practice when we bloody feel like it and have yet to do a gig before more than two people. One of those being a hamster. So we have Jonny on lead guitar and vocals and he occasionally does a bit of tin whistling but we've heard cats making better noise as they are getting run over by a combine…