Manchester’s finest alt-punks The Empty Page just released a gritty new video, calling out the ‘Cock of the Fifth Year’ – a phrase I’d never heard before but knew instantly the kind of bloke they’re on about!
“Cock of the fifth year is what we called the biggest jock types when I was in high school. Cocky, brash loud and overly confident. Puffed up and swaggering and often quite intimidating. I liked the name for a song and wrote it initially about a cartoonish bloke who unselfconsciously uses up all the space available and makes others feel shoved out of the way.
Unfortunately, there are still a lot of blokes like that I encounter when walking around my home city of Manchester. Swaggering, mouthy bellends who can be pretty intimidating when you’re a woman just trying to get from A to B.
I was thinking about the idea that being a big deal in high school is the peak of some people’s lives. I hated school with a passion and my own life has got better and better as my school days have receded in the rearview. Seems a weird flex now to have been a big deal in high school.”
Kel, singer/guitarist/songwriter, The Empty Page
This stonking single is a taste of what’s to come from new album ‘Imploding’, due for release this coming May 10th via the band’s own Vociferous Records. It’s been a long time in a making and I can’t wait to hear more!
Pre-order the album HERE.
