Believe me, it is hard to find a band nowadays that has the same intensity, the same drive and the same adventurous attitude as these three guys from Groningen, Holland.
Refusing to give the audience what it wants, GREEN HORNET gives the audience what it needs; an irresistable mixture of sleazy funk and almost soundtrack-like organ instrumentals, but switching just as easily to punkrock and even swampblues. To GREEN HORNET it comes natural this way and they sure make it sound like Rock & Roll is meant to be like this. It's all so typically GREEN HORNET that it might as well be a musical style on it's own.
In their small line-up including only a drummer, a guitarplayer, and one person continuously switching between organ, guitar and mouth harp, while two out of three take the lead vocals, GREEN HORNET has a very distinctive sound indeed. Not at least because of the intense screaming of the organ and by skipping a bassguitar completely. GREEN HORNET sounds obnoxious and raw with a lot of soul. Once on stage these three guys go wild and their fucked-up mental state makes it a menacing experience.
Rhythm & Blues legend Andre Williams found that he had no other choice than to take these guys as opening- and backingband on his last european tour. This long (33 shows, 12 countries, 5 weeks), exhausting and hilarious, but purifying experience resulted in a great live album with Andre Williams on the American Norton records: 'Holland shuffle'. Last summer GREEN HORNET released their second album "Soulscum". Like all their singles, their 10" 'Heavyweights' and their first album 'Going Down', this album is full of furious and intense Rock & Roll. In 13 songs GREEN HORNET takes you to the filfthy backyard of Rock and Roll, not a happy place to be, but so addictive that you'll keep coming back.
GREEN HORNET has played the (in Holland anyway) famous Lowlands festival, and Noorderslag festival and has shared the stage with bands like the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Dirtbombs and Speedball Baby to name a few. These are the kind of bands that drink from the same eternal well of Rock & Roll as GREEN HORNET does. But that is just how far the comparison goes. GREEN HORNET is far to stubborn to sound like any band at all.
Trust me: these guys know what they are doing. They are in full control of re-inventing Rock & Roll for one purpose only: Pure excitement!