THEY’RE Huddersfield’s secret – for now – but precocious teens Dirty Green Vinyl have ambitions well beyond the HD postcode.

And with a droll lyrical mischief, an unmistakable Yorkshire twang and an Alex Turner sound-a-like fronting the band, it’s hard not to compare the three piece to Sheffield’s own Arctic Monkeys and believe they are destined for some level of success.

Having only performed a handful of gigs at Bar 1:22 the hype may seem premature, but listening to their debut six track EP ‘Here’s Your Money, Where’s Our Kid?’, one can only conclude the band’s song writing and performing skills are ready for the big time.

This assessment is frankly absurd when you consider frontman James Finn is only 15 – but as many a football manager has concluded – if you’re good enough, you’re old enough.

James tells me he has been playing guitar since he was just eight.

He hooked up with his older bandmates Tom Bradshaw and Tom Healey, both 17, while performing an acoustic set aged just 14, in support of the band’s original line-up last year.

After their singer left, the two Toms invited him on board and the chemistry was instant.

The band write their songs together and with lines like, “If it all falls through we’ll go for a curry” you are instantly struck by the humour and natural flow of their tunes.

James says he wrote that lyric when he was 13.

“It’s just from nights out and stuff,” he says.

“I prefer to do it in a more joking around way,” he says of his lyrics.

The band acknowledge the Arctics are a big influence but also cite The Strokes and The Vaccines as big influences.

The boys say they are flattered by the comparison but don’t want to be thought of as Arctics rip-offs.

“I think most of our songs on that EP are quite different, there’s different sounds,” says James.

“But the new ones we wrote are more Arctic Monkeys kind of style.”

While only gig goers in town have witnessed their early promise Tom H said they had received some interest from a fledgling record label, were talking to a producer in Leeds and were now hoping to get some gigs out of town.

While fitting in gigs around your GCSE and A Level homework isn’t easy the lads say they are hopeful they can spread the word ahead of their exams next summer and have ambitions of competing for one of the unsigned spots at the Leeds Festival.

James said: “If it goes well obviously we’d like to make an album. It depends what people think and if it keeps going well.”

Added Tom B: “When we first started I never thought about taking it anywhere, I just thought it was fun, but it would be nice to make something of it.”

Dirty Green Vinyl play Bar 1:22 on Monday.