Collectively they’ve been in over ten bands, but it was from a relaxed jam among friends that Woolpit emerged.

A cycling accident that saw Skritch (Mary Trembles, Tex Perkins’ Dark Horses) break his hip resulted in a long break from the business. When he began to mend, he called on friend and Mary Trembles bandmate Tony McCall to show him what he'd been working on. It wasn't long before Pete O'Brien, Skritch's friend of 15 years joined in.

“He started playing this song. As soon as he started playing it, Tony and I just looked at each other and said that's amazing. The kind of sound coming out of his guitar is the kind of stuff Tony and I had talked about getting for years and it was coming out of the fingers of this great friend of mine.”

Counting Shellac and Neil Young as shared influences, the songwriting process was organic and very quick.

“It all shares a rawness and a real value of a simple song, done simply with all the elements locked together. The songs are normally finished by the second play through.”

The band name, too, came together almost as seamlessly Skritch admits. 

“We were desperately trying to think of a name and we were coming up with all sorts; we'd all look at each other and say 'nah'. Pete came in one day and said he'd had a dream and in the dream we were called Woolpit. Tony and I looked at each other and said that's a great name. Then we thought, hang on, what is Woolpit?”

As it turns out, it is a fabled village from the 12th century where two green children were allegedly found.

“One day they asked them, 'where did you come from before we found you?' and they just said 'perpetual twilight'. That story just sealed the deal. So Woolpit it is.”

Woolpit will play for the first time later this month and Skritch can barely contain his excitement.

“Music is strange, it's never quite complete until it's had an audience. The idea of fulfilling that cycle, playing it to other people and seeing them react is really, really exciting.”

Woolpit play The Beetle Bar Friday September 27 with Deer Lord and The Steady As She Goes.