Adelaide’s sinfully lusty, primo rock‘n’roll act King Daddy is back in action and brandishing its debut album Evil Love, out now through Melbourne’s first house of dark rock Spooky Records. ------------------------------------------------------------
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The music is primal, pelvic and instinctively guttural chaos, sucking the marrow from all areas of rock’s roots and spitting them back out with psychotic glee and the occasional spasm of sensual tenderness. ------------------------------------------------------------
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This insidiously groovy, blood spattered platter features 14 prime cuts which run the gamut from garage freakbeat to mutant swamp blues and even a twang country death.
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Admittedly they didn’t do the whole thing single-handedly. ------------------------------------------------------------
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A fistful of extra special guests were invited to lend their special talents; namely: Baseball and Love Of Diagrams’ Monika Fikerlova plays accordion on the broody centrepiece Put Out Yr Eyes; Digger & The Pussycats and Kamikaze Trio’s Sam Agostino played tremulous Theremin on opener Spontaneous Combustion; ex-Broken Arrows drummer Craig Williamson shook the shakers on Girl On A Limb; and last but not least, the Beasts Of Bourbon’s infamous Spencer P Jones who plays slide guitar on the closing track, a ball-tearing cover of The Gun Club’s For The Love Of Ivy (important sidenote: Spencer was actually in TGC for a short time). ------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------The long and perverted history of King Daddy is a twisted tale from start to finish – and is best left for another day – but suffice to say, it has left no less than four guitarists shattered and smashed on the rocks of fate and has been knocking about the traps long enough to become the stuff of myth and legend… much like the Loch Ness Monster – only twice as ferocious and ten times as good looking. ------------------------------------------------------------
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The line-up as it exists today is: ------------------------------------------------------------
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Nazz on lead vocals/harmonica/monkey dances -----------------------------------------------------
Rich Gohl on hot-wired guitars/backing vocals [of Longhorn] ----------------------------------------
Pange on jungle drums/yowling backing vocals (lead on two tracks) -----------------------------
Danielle Schriever on bass/sensual backing vocals (SAMI Award winner for Best Bassist 2006) ------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------It has toured Melbourne and Brisbane umpteen times, leaving many a hangover and broken heart in its wake and played with such people as:
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Bob Log III, the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, The Scientists, Spencer P Jones, Japan’s Supersnazz, The Cruel Sea, Dallas Crane, sixFThick, Rocket Science, The Devastations, The Drones and The Mess Hall to name but a few. ------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------Evil Love is the sound of evil minds, bruised souls, twisted hearts, dirty sex and redemption - and will pop a firecracker into your knickers, ready and raring to blow. ------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------King Daddy has crawled out of the swamps of Australia’s murder capital… and is on its way to a live music venue near you.
Be afraid… be very afraid. ------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------Contact King Daddy at
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