Speedball JR consists of Fr.74 on guitar, Beatgirl AleXandra on Bass, Freaky Frank on drums, El Gonk on Hammond and Sleazy Sandra & Go Go Wednesday as gogo girls. The band was formed in the summer of 2000 during Ghents (surfcity Belgium) famous surf explosion. They originally played more traditional surf rock like Dick Dale, Bobby Fuller Four, The Chantays, Ghastly Ones, Surfaris, the Ventures, Lively Ones and Blue Hawaians. You can hear these influences on their first studio session which was recorded at the end of 2000 at Peter De Veires yellow tape studio. Later on they developed a more trashy sound with more garage and sixties influences and started to write their own tunes. The first full CD, “Whiplashâ€, was recorded in 2003 at Zamans Catfarm studio and was released by Drunkabilly Records. The Sleeve design is a masterpiece of hotrod trashart by Mighty Sam the renowned graphic artist. This album also includes a video which was shown on TMF, the Belgian MTV.
The second album “For the Broad Mindedâ€, recorded in 2006 at CCR and released by Green Cookie records, is selling like hot cakes!
Support Bo Diddley - Antwerp May 2007
V8 Video from album WhiplashNGA concert - Ghent independent - March 2008Swamproom Happening - Hannover May 2004
