Gang of Youths are an Australian alternative rock band, which formed in 2012. Since 2020, the group consists of David Le'aupepe on lead vocals, rhythm guitar and piano, Max Dunn on bass guitar, Jung Kim on guitar and keyboards, Donnie Borzestowski on drums and Tom Hobden on violin, rhythm guitar and keyboards. They relocated to England in 2017. Founding member Joji Malani, on lead guitar and backing vocals, left them in 2019 to return to Australia. The band's debut studio album, The Positions (2015), received multiple ARIA Award nominations and peaked at number five on the Australian albums chart. It provided the single "Magnolia", which has been described as their breakthrough hit and was certified platinum in 2018.
David Le'aupepe (left) and Max Dunn (right) performing with the band in Nuremberg, 2022.
Founding lead guitarist, Joji Malani was with the band from 2012 to 2019. Performing at St Jerome's Laneway Festival, February 2019.
Founding mainstay Jung Kim on guitar, Rock am Ring, Nürburgring racetrack, Nürburg, Germany, June 2022
Le'aupepe fronting the band at Fairgrounds Festival, Berry, December 2017.
David Immanuel Menachem Sasagi Le’aupepe is an Australian singer, songwriter, guitarist and frontman of alternative rock band Gang of Youths, which he founded in 2011. He served as the sole songwriter on the band's first two albums, The Positions (2015) and Go Farther in Lightness (2017), finding lyrical inspiration from personal hardships including loss. Following the death of his father in 2018, the band's most recent album, Angel in Realtime (2022), is a reflection on Le'aupepe's grieving process and family identity.
Le'aupepe performing with Gang of Youths in 2017