Merciless, Malevolent Melancholic moonshine Mayhem...the Bottlebank Boogie babylon Baby...the spleen 'sploding Sermoneers of the Sacred Psalms, the Mental beat Maurauderers...anything that makes my Ducks Ass shake and feets to shuffle around...and take my Latest Last Legs a Cadillac Walkin', Swingin' A Go-Go down Shakin' Street, via Lonely Avenue and heading left of centre down the Detonation Boulevard of Broken Heels, Dreams, Splintered schemes fallen apart at the seams, Dancin' in the Moonlight down to the Dynamite Jet Saloon knocking back the Nightclub Jitters...the Songs from the Floor, Coats of many colours, sweet, sharp switchblade shoes, the Devastation Backfirin' Brokendown Blues,
The Sleaze team; A pillock with a prediliction for signing CountryPunk bands; Likewise an enterprising editor that'll pay me for scribbling scuff kneed scruffy scrawls; Emperor Penguins; A Gretsch or 3; A Mayan Priest; A Great White, The Flamingo hurtel in Vegas,
...Ayuss, yass n' yessir, the Alrightee Almighty Wild n' fucking Wonderful heartbreak shakers & bedraggled buncha Delapidated dandies of The Medicine Bow, bring torrential Tattered Heart Rags, Wistful waltzes, Devastation Serenades & eloquent paeans to pissing up the wrong fucking tree
Some simply elegant eulogies for that estimable band of bedraggled sea-farers & Bow-legged bar-fodder...
'masters of whiskey and wine driven country punk, oh, truly exciting stuff--someone commented it was like watching a modern day Johnny Cash and June Carter....' - Belle of les Bois.
'Manchester's trashiest rawk'n'roll band...& premier country bumpkin band...country music for orphans & exiles, Rock'n'Roll for the lost & lonely with big ideas for revenge and redemption' - THE Sleazegrinder.
The Medicine Bow who fumbled along like a humping homo with brewers droop. The quality of songs were great and this is a band I would love to get on the next SAS but for me the sound punished this lot and Medicine Stu's inebriated antics hindered the flow of musical urine. Don't get me wrong it was still an enjoyable venture but there is a lot more in the accoustic anus here and a full blown musical fart was released in fits and spurts rather than one long heady drone of intoxicationg riffology. Shame really but always take your medicine to keep the blues at bay. Enjoyable but not 100% effective - similar in fact to letting a chicken peck off your genital pox (so rumour has it). Fungalpunk
'Greased back wonky tonk rock chops stomp the hogg hog' - FictionNonFictionCOMING SOON TO A DESERT FAR FAR AWAY...'The Curse Of The Bow' (aka Bourban) is also on this grubby nugget along with Aces drummer & Bow harp player Matt Woods, The Shadowcops, The Kirkz, Dog Toffee & Revenge Of The Psychotronic Man. £5 from www.tnsrecords.co.uk
Here goes nuthin' - The Dogs D'Amour / Tyla, 13th Floor Elevators / Roky Erickson, Johnny Thunders / New York Dolls / Sylvain Sylvain, The Waterboys, Steve Earle, Voice of the Beehive, Murder City Devils, Dead Beat Records, Voodoo Rhythm Records, People Like You Records,Kings of Nuthin', The Replacements / Paul Westerberg, Social Distortion, The Go-Gos, Last of the Teenage Idols, Babysitters, Psychedelic Furs, The Sisters of Murky, Bauhaus, Fields of the Nephilim, Izzy Stradlin', Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Boy Fuller, Nikki Sudden / Dave Kusworth / Jacobites, Lords of the New Church / Stiv Bators / Dead Boys, Curve, Babes in Toyland, Soho Roses, Gram Parsons, Heather Nova, Kathleen Edwards, Jesus and Mary Chain, Georgia Satellites, Tommy Rivers and The Raw Ramps, Big Black, The Stray Cats, The Cramps, Bruce Springsteen, The Cult, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, 16 Horsepower, Bob Wills Texas Playboys, Slobberbone, The Barracudas, The Makers, Spacemen 3, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers, Gallows, Teddy Trigger & The Gatling Guns, Motorhead, HellCat Records, Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, The Surgens, Kid Voodoo, Revenge of the Psychotronic Man, Maria McKee, Flamin' Groovies, The Crybabys, T-Rex, Buddy Holly, Roy orbison, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Royal Trux, Tex and The Horseheads, ELVIS, Gene Vincent, Eileen Rose, Creaming Jesus, 9 Pound Hammer, The Rolling Stones, Nick Cave, The Clash, Leonard Cohen, The Jayhawks, The Boys, Faster Pussycat, Jerry Lee Lewis, David Bowie, Blind Willie McTell, The Carter Family, Julian Cope, The Flaming Stars, Syd Barrett, The Small Faces
Scarface, Dillinger (Warren Oates version), Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Frankie and Johnny, Love Field, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Goodfellas, Drugstore Cowboy, Saw's, Horror films,
The Simpsons, News, History docs, wildlife programmes especially those on sharkies, gators and the like.
'On The Road', 'The Grapes of Wrath', 'Berlin 1945' & 'Stalingrad' - Anthony Beevor, The Master and Margharita, History and True Crime, 'Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee', Shaun Hutson, newspapers new and old, Neil Hanson - narrative historian, music biogs - guess I have to
Robin Hood, Josey Wales, Keef, Keith Floyd, Mike Scott, Julian Cope, Sweet Smilin' Ronnie Lane, Paul Wasterberg, Reverend Beat-Man, Sleazegrinder, my folks, friends n' bands - hopefully one n' the same these days, not that I'm in a band with my folks. Yet. As The Earle Of Steve succinctly puts it 'I got friends that I owe, I ain't naming names cos they know, who I am, and where I stand'.