KING BASTARD can shift effortlessly, breathtakingly from the soft velvet of their heart-wrenching ballads into a sparkling, sexy supercracker of a song.
Their rip-roaring, rock-crushing style is 21st Century hit material. But that´s not surprising - they know how it´s done:
PAUL BONIN an Englishman in Berlin. He sang and played guitar with the street-punk combo "The Magoo Brothers", as well as being an integral part of that cult London Mod outfit "The Jetset". Now he leads the exhilarating pop-trauma that is KING BASTARD. His ideas come from books, films, wierd, complicated dream sequences, as well as the occasional late night excesses that spawn the bands' new neo-psychedelic, angst-driven pop anthems like "Sensational" and "Crazy". The power, the anger, the hope and the futility of songs such as "Metrotown" and the lyrical masterpiece that is "Time on my Hands" are wrenched from his lungs in tones that range from pure pop to the primal scream.
RUMME BECK on his slinky black bass is real porno-pimp action. Rumme was a regular on stage with Gianna Nannini and is the man behind the distinctive bass sound you can hear on records by the "Jever Mountain Boys", amongst other notorious Berlin "scene" bands. He´s got more than you can take… Much more.
JANSEN SCHUMACHER is the "boy wonder", the manic drumming motor behind KING BASTARD. Not for nothing has he been compared to the young Keith Moon. He has travelled the world with award winning bands like "Gum" and "Mr. Ed Jumps the Gun" and still shows no sign of calming down, the young nutter. His backing vocals are quite good too.
ZIGGY POP is the new kid on the block. A well-known German ‘60’s scene keyboarder, he´s now giving that ultra-modern-retro touch to the KING BASTARD sound with loops, grooves and funky sounds developed over months of tonal experimentation on his very own G5. A true backroom bod, he can Bom Shankar with the best.
JOVICA B. plays an incredible lead guitar and, together with his trademark soul-syrup backing vocals, must be counted amongst the most popular rock & roll guitarists in Germany. He´s made his name with the Meadowlark Lemons and The Two of Us, not to mention Joe Cocker and a host of other artists. A true master of his art, his stage show has to be seen to be believed. (Squid Hawthorne, Dorfdisco.de)
