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ME Little Jo, Alcoholic Rat, ex scooter girl, huge fan of the Guana Batz and King Kurt, biggest passion is live music. Mostly into psychobilly and garage/trash, but also the odd bit of punk, rockabilly, ska, 2Tone, mod revival, motown and northern soul.
THE WEBSITE Alcoholic-rats.com is a collection of my own personal photos and reviews of gigs and scooter rallies from the 80s til present day. I decided to set up a myspace page for it as this seems to get more traffic than the web in general. There are message boards on the main website if you want to upload your own pics, and advertise gigs and scooter events. It is also the home of the official King Kurt website.

PICS I take my camera with me to most events and put a taster of each gig up on here but the full selection will be up on the galleries on the website.
REVIEWS If I've been to a gig or seen a band/cd/dvd/book that I like, I'll try to write something and spread the word . I think it's good to give a bit of support back to the promoters and bands who put all their time in to giving us a great scene again. Quite a few of these reviews end up in Scootering Magazine. I've also been asked recently to contribute to a new fanzine called The Wrench

My Interests

Gigs
Music
Tattoos
My friends
Coloured hair

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I'd like to meet:

Psychobillies, Scooterists, Punks, Skins, Mods, etc who want to share photos, reviews, scooterist events and gig news.

Music:

Guana Batz
King Kurt
Long Tall Texans
Frantic Flintstones
Shakeout
Torment
The Milkshakes
The Stingrays
The Prisoners
The Caravans
Batmobile
Coffin Nails
The Highliners
Restless
Stray Cats
The Polecats
The Go-Getters
Elvis
The Cramps
Henry and the Bleeders
Miniskirt Blues
The Duel
Goldblade
The Grit
Strawberry Blondes
Tenpole Tudor
Rock-It Dogs
The Beat
The Specials
2 Tonic
The Truth
Makin Time

My Blog

Mad Dog Cole The Termites Henry & The Bleeders at The Ace Cafe

Mad Dog Cole, The Termites and Henry & The Bleeders  The Ace Café 15 Sept 2007 DJ Cosmic was already spinning the tunes when we arrived at The Ace warming everyone up for the first band of the ev...
Posted by Alcoholic-rats.com on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:50:00 PST

Live Video Footage, Gig and Scooter Rally pics

Have a look at my live footage of Guana Batz, Mad Dog Cole, The Highliners, Restless and Strawberry Blondes My You Tube Page  A selection of my gig and scooter pics are here on myspace, but ...
Posted by Alcoholic-rats.com on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:05:00 PST

New Releases, Reviews and Recommendations

Essential Listening, Viewing and Reading - here's some that I've liked! Hell's Bent on Rockin' - Craig Brackenridge - due out Nov 2007 on Cherry Red records   Rockabilly Underground - William J...
Posted by Alcoholic-rats.com on Thu, 17 May 2007 12:23:00 PST

Gigs I've been to

Gigs I've been to The first few gigs I ever went to were local community centre/church hall type affairs to see a local punk band called Lethal Dose at about the age of 13 or 14.  Within a year...
Posted by Alcoholic-rats.com on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:06:00 PST

History of Guana Batz by Pip Hancox and recent live footage

Guana Batz live footage I've uploaded a couple of clips taken earlier this year (with Pip's permission) onto my videos. Click on View my Videos under my profile pic to see The Cave and Wondrous Plac...
Posted by Alcoholic-rats.com on Fri, 11 May 2007 02:21:00 PST

Bedlam Psychobilly festival - review and pics

I guess I may have lost all momentum reviewing this so late after the event, but it was such a great gig that I thought it worthy of a mention.   Eventually found the venue with no parking spaces...
Posted by Alcoholic-rats.com on Wed, 09 May 2007 10:41:00 PST

My 40th birthday gig with King Kurt

Last night was the best birthday ever.  Mick booked King Kurt and Miniskirt Blues to play at the Ace so I got to celebrate again with some of my favourite people and one of my favourite bands of ...
Posted by Alcoholic-rats.com on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:40:00 PST

Speedfreaks 2 Nov 2006 Review

Speedfreaks 2I had been looking forward to this all year and was like a kid on Xmas Eve in the weeks prior to Speedfreaks2, a 3 day alternative music festival hosting some of the best bands from the p...
Posted by Alcoholic-rats.com on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:38:00 PST

Speedfreads Ball Nov 2005 Review

The Speedfreaks Ball, Hemsby 11-14 November 2005We had been looking forward to this for months, the chance to see some of our old favourite bands and check out some new ones too. Just days after the W...
Posted by Alcoholic-rats.com on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:33:00 PST

The Grit, Viva Las Vegas, King Kurt and The Meteors Feb 18 2006

Started off at The Underworld in Camden for King Kurt. Tonight's gig was an absolute blinder. The place was heaving despite such an early start and all 3 bands went down really well attracting a full ...
Posted by Alcoholic-rats.com on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:30:00 PST