Member Since: 7/27/2004
Band Members:
Alex De Renzi - drums
Baz Holland - bass
Jonathan Smith - organ
Peter Smith - guitar
Phil Speed - vocal, guitar
Influences: 50's rock'n'roll. 60's garage punk. 70's punk. 80's indie. Surf. Bowie, The Smiths, Roxy Music, Television, Patti Smith, Captain Beefheart, The Buzzcocks, The Fall, The Clash, The Rolling Stones, Little Richard, Dylan, Blondie, The Adverts, The Who, Can, The Sex Pistols, Chuck Berry, Motown, Doo-Wop, John Coltrane, Faulst, Aretha Franklin etc etc etc etc......
Sounds Like: "Oh Yeah, 'Coffee or Tea' is definitely decadent sordid sex" ARTROCKER. "Punk pop with a garage rock edge" TIME OUT. "...a firey and ballsy slap in the chops. Full of garagey goodness...as the ghosts of The stooges and The Damned fight it out in the background" MAKING MUSIC "Esentially different, Tom waits meets Captain Beefheart meets The Fall meets The Shadows" STEWART DENNIS, Program controller 107.8 The Saint. "The Coral crash landing in a Tarantino movie" GARY CROWLEY - BBC RADIO LONDON. "We think they're marvellous...They're like the Dead Kennedy's meeting The Coral and playing the theme to the munsters" MARK RADCLIFFE - BBC RADIO ONE. "Punk rock in a supercool new fashion, dontchaknow" ents24.com. "They make spiky, urgent pop" THE ORGAN.
Record Label: Face Value
Type of Label: Indie