Orlando Thomas Penhale Weeks is an English singer/songwriter and formal frontman of now-disbanded indie-rock band The Maccabees. Weeks studied illustration at Brighton University before spending a decade in The Maccabees. In 2016, when the group decided to disband he set about writing his first book The Gritterman, which was published on September 7th, 2017, accompanied by the soundtrack album The Gritterman.