The Midnight Beast

The Midnight Beast are a British music group from London UK. The Midnight Beast are most famous for their Youtube cover-parody of Tik Tok by Ke$ha. The video, posted on their YouTube on 13 December 2009, features all three group members: Stefan Abingdon (born 19 January 1989), Dru Wakely (born 10 February 1987) and Ashley Horne (born 4 January 1989). Abingdon added a '￡' to his forename for the Tik Tok parody to mimic the '$' that Ke$ha had added to her stagename.
Abingdon has been in other bands that include, (chronologically): Ink, Icarus Burning (2005), Killafornia, R.U.Twin, The Clik Clik (2005–2008), Perfect People, Chapters (previously known as The Midnight Patrol - still present) and The Midnight Beast (still present).
Abingdon recently co-wrote and produced a track titled "When the Sun Goes Down" for the album of the same name, When the Sun Goes Down by American pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene.
Wakely appeared with Abingdon in Icarus Burning, The Clik Clik, and Perfect People.
Horne has appeared in such television programmes as Genie In The House (Nickelodeon),Foyle's War (ITV), Maths Mansion (Teachers TV) and Doctor Who (BBC).
On Christmas Day 2009, the "Tik Tok" parody was featured on the front page of MTV.com.[citation needed]
Ke$ha saw and commented on the group's parody of her song six days after it was uploaded, tweeting "holy. shit. this is better than my version."
On 3 January 2010, the group uploaded another parody to their YouTube Channel of Jay Sean's song "Down". Sean tweeted about the parody on 21 January 2010: "Hahha brilliant. Someone should mix this with "pants on the ground"...".
The Midnight Beast have a rather large following on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, with over 244,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel to date. The band's awards on its YouTube Channel are as follows:
The Midnight Beast played at The Great Escape festival in Brighton, East Sussex, in May 2010, and played at both the SkyFest Festival and the Lovebox Music festival[14] in London in mid-July 2010, and at the Latitude Festival 2010 held at Henham Park in Suffolk on 17 July.
The Midnight Beast also played at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in August 2010 on the Alternative stage and will return in the summer of 2011 to headline the Festival Republic Stage.