The band's line-up consists of singer Danni Monroe, guitarist/keyboardist Matt Bond, guitarist Luke Padfield, bassist Leon Watkins and drummer Jacob Moseley.
Later that year the duo found Tom Hall (drums) on the Forming Bands website and the trio entered Nott-in-Pill Studios in Newport, Wales to start writing and recording.
Following on from the buzz of ITV, music channel Scuzz picked up the video and featured it on their prime time shows generating lots of new fans.
The Dirty Youth then self-booked a 33 date 'toilet circuit' tour of the UK, including an appearance on the Scuzz Stage at Bloodstock Open Air Festival.
This was all self-promoted through the band's social networks, big cartel and through touring the UK They had also sold an impressive additional 3000 units on iTunes in that year alone.
Other highlights of 2009 included playing Hellfire Festival at the O2 Academy Islington in London (which is where they met their manager to date) and supporting Skindred at Cardiff University on their sold out UK tour.
2010 saw The Dirty Youth enter Nott-in-Pill Studios in Newport again to start writing and recording their debut full-length album Red Light Fix.
[2] [3] The Dirty Youth's first single "Fight" was released on 4 September 2011, as was a performance music video which debuted on Rock Sound's website.
Following this, The Dirty Youth played at Getaway Rock Festival in Sweden alongside Slash and Motörhead, and played the Jägermeister stage at Download Festival UK In March 2012 The band were invited to join Korn on tour in Europe by the band themselves, after guitarist Munky heard their cover of Narcissistic Cannibal, which was posted online by Metal Hammer Magazine.
They went on to announce Phil Edwards as their new drummer along with an appearance at Hard Rock Calling Festival in Hyde Park, London alongside Bruce Springsteen.
In August, The Dirty Youth then went on to play at Merthyr Rocks Festival in Wales and shortly after, released their third single and video for 'Last Confession'.
In January 2013, The Dirty Youth released a Special Deluxe Edition of Red Light Fix featuring 5 bonus tracks.
During the latter part of 2013 and after two years of touring Red Light Fix, The Dirty Youth headed to Rockfield Studios in Monmouth to start writing their second album Gold Dust.
In December 2013 The Dirty Youth played to a sold out Christmas show in their hometown of Cardiff which resulted in the police being called after a riot was reported.
[8] In July 2014 The Dirty Youth played at Redfest alongside Skindred and later announced their first ever UK headline tour for October with I Divide as their support band.
On 9 October 2015 The Dirty Youth announced that they would be releasing a double A-side single for 'Just Move On' and a cover of Blondie's hit 'Atomic' on 13 November 2015.
In August 2016, The Dirty Youth Signed to Uprawr/Notting Hill Publishing and announced on some of their social media pages that they had started demoing their, as yet 'untitled' third album.
[8] In July 2014 The Dirty Youth played at Redfest alongside Skindred and announced their first ever UK headline tour for October with I Divide as their support band.