Misper – a police term for a missing person. Appropriated by London-based alt-rock quintet The Mispers, it’s the perfect term for their own ideology – to break away from the norm and start their own community of like-minded individuals; to go missing together.

The Mispers were born last year after frontmen Jack Balfour Scott and Joey Arnold Zapata returned from a last minute, year-long trip to Australia.

“Me and Joey didn’t have jobs in Australia,” explains Jack. “We just busked and were broke. We lived in a lovely lady’s garage for six weeks.”

“I was gagging to play with someone else because I was just so bored of looking at Joey’s face,” says Jack of the band’s formation. “We’d started harmonizing whilst making cups of tea. The cheap wine was making us delusional and we were simply desperate for some new band members.”

On their return one year ago, they immediately hooked up with Jack’s friend and drummer Jordan Grispino, with whom he’d played in a previous band in Brighton. Jordan had always been part of the grand scheme and had also gone through his own form of self-imposed exile, honing his talents and awaiting the boys’ return in a garage of his own.