Despondent spawned in August 2004 when Reuben Vaughan (guitar/vocals, ex-Third Hardest) and Luke Richards (bass/backing vocals, ex-Third Hardest) had some songs they'd written with some hard-hitting political and sociological lyrics, they just needed a drummer to bring the songs to life.  Enter Nik Coley (drums/backing vocals, ex-Charybdis, Skoona & Mr. Tickle), and after a few practices the sound was complete. 

A couple of gigs and about a month of slogging hard work practicing as much as possible and they went to the recording studio to do the 10 tracks of "Proud to Fail", which was reviewed very nicely on Punktastic ("this is a great, fast, melodic punk record" etc.) and Punknews.co.uk ("if you're into political skatepunk, this is a decent CD to own") and can be bought from the band's website.

They've now played a fair few gigs and have just released their "Come and Gone" EP.  You can pick it up at any of their gigs for a measly £2!