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Hello my name is Paul Akinbola (nicknamed The Farter), I am 15 years old and i'm in the band called The Wacky Bodybuilders.
The act aims to help children to get fit and heathty.
The members would be Derek Stride, Paul Akinbola, Joshua Peart, Marcus Coxttel-Fox, Yunns Mohammed and Mustfa Pasha.
Dylan Smallwood would brought in to manage the band.
The group would be given the name "The Wacky Bodybuilders", and move into a house together (owned by Dylan) during the summer holidays where they would subsidized by him and each was claiming unemployment benefit.
During the first two months the group would work on demos and dance routines at the Studios. The material the group would be given was "very, very, very young pop" and included the song "We Are Bodybuilders", a record that I wrote it a year ago.
They would get Dylan to set up a showcase performance for the group in front of industry writers, producers and A&R men in September at the school where would received an "overwhelmingly positive" reaction.
During October the group would tour record labels in London and Los Angeles with Dylan and finally could sign a deal with Syco music in November 2008. From this point up to the winter of 2007-8 the boys would continue to write and record tracks for their debut album while extensively touring London, where they would sign a publishing deal with EMI.
On December 1, 2008 the Wacky Bodybuilders could release their debut single "We Are Bodybuilders" in the United Kingdom. In the weeks leading up to the release, the video for "We Are Bodybuilders", (directed by Dylan and shot at London Studios in South Bank), would dominate the music channels.
In December the group would conducted their first interview with the contributing editor of music industry paper Music Week, at Sony BMG's London headquarters. That piece recognised that the Wacky Bodybuilders were about to institute a change in the charts away from Hip-Hop, electric pop and towards out-and-out pop. He wrote: "Just when girls with electric threaten to rule pop life, an all-boy, in-six-pack pop group for kids has arrived with enough sass to burst that rockist cherry!!". The song could be a global hit, hitting number 1 in 31 countries. "We Are Bodybuilders" would also prove to be a catalyst in helping the Wacky Bodybuilders break into the notoriously difficult U.S. market.
At the start of 2009 the Wacky Bodybuilders would release their debut album Flex Your Muscles in Europe. The success would unprecedented and drew comparisons to Spiceworld. Riding a wave of publicity and hype, the group would release their next singles, "Ain't Nobody (Wearing Nappy)"(see http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6fPhDBIUTxU. It would featuring a muscular farter wearing nappy with doing a poo.
This song would become the official Comic Relief song of 2009) and "Last One in The Sea", in March and June respectively. The two tracks would continue the group's remarkable sales by topping the charts in over fifty-three countries and cementing the group's reputation as the biggest children's act in the world.
They would set up a production company called The Wacky Productions to make a TV series for Nickelodeon.
Please log on to www.phoenix.towerhamlets.sch.uk to contact then.
Age
44
Country
United States
