The Amazing Devil

The Amazing Devil is a lyrical folk band formed in 2016 and comprised of members Joey Batey and Madeleine Hyland.
==Background==
===Band Lore===
At the bands founding, each member of the band had a stage persona they played. Batey as The Blue Furious Boy and Hyland as Scarlett Scarlett. The members no longer consider themselves playing the characters onstage as they did at the beginning of the band's career. With a Side of Knowledge Podcast episode 2.4, posted November 29, 2018 
A description for The Blue Furious boy posted to the Amazing Devil page on InstagramThe Amazing Devil Instagram Posted January 17, 2017 (Accessed 02/17/2025) 
 
A description for Scarlet Scarlet boy posted to the Amazing Devil page on InstagramThe Amazing Devil Instagram Posted January 17, 2017 (Accessed 02/17/2025) 
==Popularity==
One of the band members, Batey, plays Jaskier on the Netflix adaptation of The Witcher and his popularity and the popularity of the show has helped boost the band into higher levels of popularity. 
In 2020 the Tumblr Fandommetic's Year in Review placed the band as the twentieth most popular fandom within the category of musical groups. 
==Fan Community==
The fan community frequently calls themselves Dear Hearts after an oft-repeated term of endearment found through many of the band's lyrics.Bandcamp Lyric Page for Horror and the Wild(Accessed February 17, 2025) 
==Fannish Community Projects==
===Dear Hearts Drive===
The Dear Hearts Drive was a fandom charity stream project, to raise money for Refugee Women Connect.Dear Hearts Community article on Refugee Women Connect website, posted September 15th, 2020 (Accessed February 17, 2025) The stream featured singing, digital art streams, playing instruments, and doing poetry readings.Dear Hearts Drive Tumblr posted August 20, 2020 (Accessed February 17, 2025) The first stream, held on September 13, 2020 raised £21,013 in donations.Dear Hearts Drive Instagram post made September 15, 2020 (Accessed February 18, 2025) 
The Dear Hearts Drive hosted a holiday drive held on December 20, 2020 rasing £2,103 for Refugee Women Connect.Dear Hearts Drive Instagram post made December 20, 2020 (Accessed February 18, 2025) The most recent drive was held on July 17th, 2021, raising £7,735 for the same charity.Dear Hearts Drive Instagram post made July 21, 2021 (Accessed February 18, 2025)
The Dear Hearts Drive YouTube page holds recordings of each of the three streams. 
===Amazing Devil Discord Fanbook===
The Amazing Devil Discord Fanbook was a fan project finished on June 22, 2022. It is a fanbook project that was created and finalized by members of the Amazing Devil Discord Server (A fan server for the band notable for also hosting an AMA with the band members)The Amazing Devil - Discord AMA - April 13th 2020 posted May 9, 2020 (Accessed February 17, 2025)
The fanbook was posted on the server's YouTube page: 
The DEAR HEARTS project - A Fanbook for The Amazing Devil
===The Amazing Devil fan wiki===
The Amazing Devil Wiki is an ongoing fan project to create a wikia for the band's music. It was started on September 8th, 2020.
===TADvent===
TADvent was a daily creative prompt challenge hosted by the Amazing Devil Discord server for the entirety of December 2023. Every day fans were encouraged to create something based on the associated prompts.The Amazing Devil Discord posted November 25, 2023 (Accessed February 18, 2025) It was open to fanworks of all kinds from traditional, digital art, and poetry to fun selfies and pet photos. 
====Works Created for TADvent==== 
==Fanworks==
While the band members and stage personas do not prompt a lot of fanfiction on their own (The Amazing Devil (band) fandom on Archive of Our Own has 31 fics published as of February 2025), it is incredibly common to find works in all different fandoms using Amazing Devil lyrics as song titles and inspiration. 
Some Examples: 
* Ao3 sings Wild Blue Yonder by The Amazing Devil posted to Jhon Cardnal on YouTube
* Not Yet / Love Run (As Sung by AO3 Titles) posted to Wren of the Woods on YouTube
===Fanart===
* The Amazing Devil fanart by flootzavut on AO3
===Fan Videos===
== References ==
Category:Song FandomsCategory:Music RPF