THE LANCASTER BOMBERS THE LANCASTER BOMBERS FORMED IN 2005 - THEY QUICKLY GARNERED A REPUTATION FOR EXCITING AND ANARCHIC LIVE SHOWS THAT ATTRACTED SOME OF ROCK"S MORE NOTORIOUS FIGURESTHE LANCASTER BOMBERS HAD A MYSPACE PROFILE WITH OVER 20,000 HITS UNTIL IT WAS INEXPLICABLY DELETED WITHOUT WARNING ON 11/10/06
THEY WANT TO GET THEIR PEOPLE BACK
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HERE IS WHAT THE PRESS HAVE HAD TO SAY
Now to London's newest gonzo rock renegades The Lancaster Bombers . Not since the likes of The Like have outward appearances been such a true measure of the magic within. With their debut single sleeve cover designed by legendary folk-punk visionary / pisshead Shane MacGowan, it's little surprise that 'Cruelty Boxes' sounds like The Stooges and Shaun Ryder flailing around in a bucket of boiling ether. The news that their live shows regularly include gimp masks, nudity and a lot of misplaced lipstick marks shouldn't come as much of a revalation either.
- Krissi Murison – NME
Deep Beneath the city, something is stirring. At 1am, Camden four piece The Lancaster Bombers saunter onstage. Singer John - Paul wears ripped jeans, Iggy's torso, and an oversize pair of WW2 Goggles. He Screams "Fuckin' Wake up!" and launches into International Bastard Club.' The sound is a jagged mess - a brutal pile up of the Stones, The Sweet and The Happy mondays. Tunes may crawl from the wreckage but it's the overall effect that counts. By the last song 'When the Devil's at Home' John- Paul's on the floor, screaming, "Deathscape radio drowns us in sound!" In hell Sid Vicious and Brian Jones raise a toast. The anti bore-rock fightback starts here
Paul Moody – NME
One aviation website describes the planes as the heavy boys that did the damage. The band that takes their name have a similar attitude to music. Although they come from the North London scene, playing their debut gig at the Boogaloo Bar in April 2005 and numbering Shane MacGowan and the Libs among their fans, they sound nothing like the effete post-Libertines wannabes doing the rounds. Cruelty Boxes is a decadent glam metal tune, starting like a rabid Slade and coming across like a cut-and-shunt of the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Liars, vocals hollered and guitars set to feedback. The Silent Show on the flipside has a louche warped-blues feel. Its not pretty but it is exciting and has an elemental force that makes the band stand out from the masses
- Ged M - SOUNDSXP.COM
The sensation is of some huge aircraft revving its engines up to speed and being held poised on brakes that are straining to let go and loose the huge machine into the heavens. A pent-up energy sparks across the crowd as chaotic chords and blistering drums ground themselves into receptive ears - and The Lancaster Bombers take off with a roar that must be heard across the Thames
- VIRTUAL FESTIVALS
With the reverb raised to Empty Cathedral Level, the frontman begins to bite, spit and scream propelled by a tom-tom fuelled pounding and some the most disgusting (a good thing) guitar sounds this side of the Norwegian Death Metal scene. The entrance of Shane MacGowan half way through the set seems very apt. Wasted and lolloping, he provides the perfect antidote to the The Bombers, spasmodic fitting. The noise this band make is for the most part, utterly enticing. Syd Barrett takes on The 'Mary Chain! -Ross Bennett - DROWNED IN SOUND
"Its about making the loudest fucking anarchic statement you can make before you die,"
John - Paul explains, "It's like what Lemmie once said, 'You just stick it up a flagpost and see if anyone salutes it.' And that is exactly what I am doing, getting it out and seeing if anyone digs it." A thunderous rock n' roll machine drawing their sound from "anything on Pebbles Volume 3, early Floyd, the Stooges, Sex Pistols" and specifically, the Stones' "We Love You" the band practised, got wasted and practised some more. Then came the gig. John - Paul ran around the stage in a gas mask, his body covered in lipstick. The audience, with enough tabloid rock-royalty to fill a spread in Heat, were stunned by the Bombers raw unhinged apocalyptic and ear splitting rock n' roll "Burn the flags, bomb yourself with the truth and get involved. I really think we are going to burn in Hell," says John - Paul. What are your plans for World War Three?
- ROWAN CHERININ - DAZED & CONFUSED
Yesterday night johanoskarsson and me saw The Lancaster Bombers at the Rhythm Factory in Whitechapel, and they RAWK!...To me it was like the best of the last 40 years of music rolled into one band, with lots of distortion and rock attitude (of which I have seen my share so I mean it). The gutarist was churning out slomo boogie from hell, while mssr vocals contorted away. Aah bliss, I swear yesterday night I believed they are the best band at the moment, at least for me. But I was drunk
– LAST FM
Meet John - Paul frontman/ringleader of dandy noise terrorists The Lancaster Bombers. The London based four-piece have rapidly become the new antithesis of easy listening, "We're a fucking cult man," confirms Jp with wild-eyed passion, "Our Patron is St Agnes of Bohemia . There have been seven members of the inner circle who have been given the Third Secret of Fatima to protect. Soon there will be thousands of disciples, garbed in white paisley, all of them ready to leap into the Rio Grande with us on Boxing Day 2012 when our free spririts will leave our material bodies, float up into the ether and become one gigantic sprawling enlightened supra mind."
- MARK FERNHYHOUGH – THE STOOL PIGEON
The Lancaster Bombers believe in the salvation of the soul via the medium of rock n’ rollâ€
- ANN SCANLON – L’UOMO VOGUE
