Trivia / Los Campesinos!

• Black Sheep Hit: Their two biggest hits, "You! Me! Dancing!" and "We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives", much like the rest of Hold On Now, Youngster..., is considerably lighter and along the line of twee indie pop than the more refined, mature sounds they've had with later albums.
• The Cast Showoff: Jason handles most of the band's artwork. He and Kim also run their own tattoo parlour in Worthing, England.
• Colbert Bump: Gareth's continuous references to his favorite author, the late metafictional novelist B.S. Johnson, on the band's blog and in interviews has at least slightly raised the profile of the semi-obscure writer.
• Creator Backlash: In general, Gareth generally doesn't look fondly at the band's early "twee" period.
  • The band aren't embarrassed by Hold On Now Youngster..., but they're not particularly fond of it, either. Just four of its songs ("You! Me! Dancing!", "My Year in Lists", "Knee Deep at ATP" and "Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks") survived in their setlist rotation to 2017 (a fifth song, "Death to Los Campesinos!", managed to hang on until 2014 before it was ultimately dropped). The album appears as a gag in their Bargain Hunt-themed video for "5 Flucloxacillin."
  • Gareth and Tom have expressed regrets with Hello Sadness, not exactly hating it, but finding it too streamlined and the tone too deep within Gareth's mood during its production. They consider some songs off it favorites, but they also would've preferred to switch in and out some songs from the tracklist, with Gareth specifically citing "Tiptoe Through the True Bits" and "Allez Les Blues" (two outtakes that were released on their website after the album came out) as songs that should've made the album over some songs that did.
  • Gareth also isn't fond of "The International Tweexcore Underground", calling it "abysmal" in an interview with Noisey.
  • Gareth doesn't care too much for "We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives", one of their earliest singles, though it made a rare set appearance at the concert that was recorded for A Good Night for a Fist Fight. Notably, the band left out the final verse, which Gareth finds to be particularly embarrassing.
  • He supposedly hated "You! Me! Dancing!", but he eventually changed his mind. It's now the oldest song they play live. Part of it might have to do with Revival By Commercialisation (having appeared in a Budweiser/MLB commercial). In concerts, it's often preceded by "this song is about beer", and has some lyrics changed to "every single one of us Budweiser 'til we die". Gareth has also taken to singing the first verse of Pavement's "Box Elder" during the build-up.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: In an installment of Noisey's Rate Your Records column, Gareth and Tom chose Romance is Boring as their favorite.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: For a while, the exclusive singles from the band's Heat Rash series weren't actually obtainable beyond their limited zine run between 2011 and 2012, and thus the only means to listen to them were through illegitimate fan uploads on Youtube (sans "Allez Les Blues", released on a label compilation by Arts & Crafts in 2013). They were eventually salvaged, remastered, and given a surprise release in 2021 on the Whole Damn Body compilation.

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