SCHOOL projects can instill a sense of “dread” in pupils’ minds.

But for one group of children that word took on a totally different meaning after they managed to enlist the help of top 1990s band Dreadzone.

Callum Walton, Alex Warner, Adam Thack-Pugsley and Miles Cottier were just babies when Dreadzone’s best known hit Little Britain hit the charts.

Now – inspired by their music teacher John West – they have bagged the electro-dub quintet to perform in Wantage.

The Faringdon Community College students are arranging the performance at Shush nightclub on May 17 for the final project on their music technology BTEC.

Dreadzone rose to fame in the early 90s. They opened on Glastonbury’s pyramid stage in 1994, and the late DJ John Peel said their album Second Light was one his favourites of all time.

When the students decided to put on a band for their project, Mr West suggested Dreadzone and they all instantly agreed.

Callum, 18, from Faringdon said: “We didn’t want to pick a small band, and we wanted to think outside the box.”

The team created posters and stuck them up in windows and boards on roadsides, but mostly they have used the marketing power of social media.

Alex, 17, from Faringdon, said: “Online is the best way because you can reach a wider audience. We know that most of the tickets we have sold were bought online.”

The students were given no budget, so all their costs have to be covered by the ticket sales.

They aim to sell 450 at £15 each, and so far have sold 70.

Miles, 18, from Faringdon, has always wanted to be a professional musician, and said the whole experience had given him a new insight into the industry.

“It is a massive part of my life, I have been in a band for several years,” he said. “I’ve realised how difficult and stressful it is, and it has made me appreciate how hard people work in the industry.

“Trying to juggle it with other A-Levels has definitely been tricky.”

Guitarist Adam, from Shrivenham, wants to work as a game designer, but knows that marketing and promotion experience can help with any job.

He said: “I have learned it is difficult to do if you are a small business.”

Mr West said: “There have been ups and downs, they are still teenagers, but they have realised the amount of effort that goes into it and had a real working experience.”

Laura Farrow, of Dreadzone’s management team, DMF Music, said “The organisation has been really good so far, so much so that we didn’t even realise at first that they were students.”