THEY may be one of the most hyped new bands in Britain, but Peace have a funny idea of what their average fan looks like.

“We were asked to draw a Peace fan,” says the band’s talkative drummer, Dom Boyce. “We couldn’t decide what they’d look like, so we did that thing where you have a piece of paper and fold it, and took it in turns to draw a different part of the body.

“The head was a sunflower, the body was a really hairy muscular man in a waistcoat, the legs were a kilt and Doug did the feet as giant plantpots. So that’s a typical Peace fan. Maybe we watched too much Bill and Ben when we were little?”

In reality, their fans are teenagers, and although they reference bygone bands (more of which later), Peace seem to be ploughing their own furrow.

Bestivalites are in for a treat.

Their live shows are sights to behold, with hundreds and hundreds of like-minded music fans losing themselves amid psychedelic grooves and summery melodies.

The band’s roots are not so colourful. Originally from Worcester and now based in Birmingham, there’s no mythical story about how brothers Harry and Samuel Koisser, Douglas Castle and Dom Boyce, all sixth form students, came together to form Peace. If anything, it was just plain boredom.

“We formed in 2009, when we were all working. We all had jobs. Really, really terrible jobs,” says frontman Harry Koisser.

“I was holding a stick board in Birmingham for a nightclub called Face. Doug worked in an office, which is funny because he’s the most un-office job type person you can imagine, Dom was doing manual labour, and Sam worked at HMV. Quite funny, we had jobs but universally hated them.”

A few local gigs in Birmingham and momentum started gathering.

Enough for them to jack in their day jobs and start concentrating on the band full-time.

“We just thought we would get out what we put in, and so far we have done,” says Koisser.

“The band was clearly something we wanted to do, and we thought if we carried on it might take off a bit, although we didn’t think about the future too much, we just did it. We were bored, more than anything.”

Koisser explains that he was “quite into music as a child”, and had always sung, whether around the house or with his friends, but it was never anything he took seriously – and he never thought it might be something he could do for a living.

“More than anything, the entire industry seemed to be based in London and it didn’t seem like something people from Birmingham could just break into. I still think it’s quite weird that we did,” he says.

“The first show we did was at the end of 2010,” says Koisser. “A mate of mine was putting on a show and had [Australian psych rockers] Tame Impala on, so let us support. We didn’t really have any idea what we were doing. It seemed to go OK, so we just experimented for a bit after that.

“Eventually we recorded some demos, although we didn’t know how to write songs or anything.

It was fun working it out.”

Their EP, subsequent album In Love and raft of UK dates earlier this year, which included Southsea’s Wedgewood Rooms, were a success and now Bestival beckons.

“I think it’s what I’m looking forward to most,” says Boyce.

“We don’t want people to read about us and get bogged down with expectation.

That can be really dangerous, so we just want to get out there and actually show people what we're about. It’s flattering having journalists write nice things about you, but ultimately, we succeed or fail on how good we are as a band.”

  • Bestival takes place at Robin Hill Country Park, Isle of Wight, from September 5-8. Limited tickets remain.