Violet TV started after a series of chance meetings at tiny all-dayers, failed house shows, and practice spaces hidden above empty shops around Manchester. Maya and Izzy originally bonded over photocopied zines and old indiepop tapes before dragging Tom into rehearsals after seeing him spend nearly an entire local show tuning a guitar in the corner instead of speaking to anyone. Elliot joined later after filling in on drums for a rehearsal and accidentally playing every song twice as fast, which somehow made everything sound better.

Most of the band’s earliest songs were written during long winter evenings in a cramped practice room lit by broken fairy lights and the glow from an old CRT television somebody found outside a charity shop. Their first demos spread quietly between friends on burned CD-Rs and badly labelled cassette tapes before small local gigs slowly turned into crowded little rooms full of people singing the words back.

Blending jangly indiepop, nervous post-punk energy, and the melancholy feeling of staying awake too late watching television static, Violet TV became known for intimate live shows, soft chaos, and songs about growing up too slowly, missing the last bus home, awkward parties, and trying to stay hopeful in tiny rooms full of noise.