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The Racket

'I feel a great need to get down'

About Me



Formed from a sprawling mess of parties in East London at the end of 2005, The Racket are a tight, aggressive, high octane mix of classic rock and roll with a dance/punk attitude.

For information on live appearances, performances or inquiries, please contact: [email protected].

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/24/2006
Band Members: Morgan - Vocals/Guitar.
Nik - Guitar.
Thor - Bass/ BV's.
Andy - Drums.

Influences: Led Zepplin, The Clash, Iggy and the Stooges, Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, MC5's, At The Drive-In, The Bellrays, New York Dolls, Queens of the Stone Age, Jimi Hendrix, The Monkees, Juliette and the Licks, Parliament, Bowie, Prince, The Strokes, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, 13th Floor Elevators, The Stone Roses, ACDC, Funkadelic, Adam and the Ants, Django Reinheart, Blondie, The Ramones, Bloc Party,The Specials, Beck, Super Furry Animals, Booker T. & The MG's, George Clinton, Brian Eno, Guns N' Roses, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, The Who, Buffalo Springfield, The Rollin Stones, The Beatles, James Brown, The Pixies, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, The Chalatans, Oasis, Muse, Public Enemy, Curtis Mayfield, D4, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Verve, David Holmes, Black Sabbath, T-Rex, The Doves, Johnny Cash, Grandaddy, Blur, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley And The Wailers, Hunter S Thompson, The Isley Brothers, Ash, Emile Zola, Clive Barker, Ian Dury, Arctic Monkeys, Billy Cobham, The Libertines, Joy Division, Idlewild, Japan, Santana, Kings Of Leon, The White Stripes, Love, The Velvet Underground, Smashing Pumpkins, Marvin Gaye, Motorhead, My Bloody Valentine, Otis Redding, Pearl Jam, Pulp, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Royal Trux, Sam Cooke, Scott Walker, Six By Seven, PJ Harvey, Pussy Galore, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Slayer, Small Faces, Sly & The Family Stone, Sonic Youth, Your Mum, Spiritualised, Captain Beefheart, Spacemen 3, Stevie Wonder, Supersuckers, Television, The Cars, The Cooper Temple Clause, Neil Gaiman, Ann & Nancy Wilson, The Coral, The Cult, The Dirtbombs, Han Solo, The Donnas, The Doors, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Hives, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Killers, The Mooney Suzuki, The Police, The Teardrop Explodes, The Undertones, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Thee Hypnotics, Can, ZZ Top, the People around us - no walls.
Sounds Like: punkrockindierock'n'roll!

Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Slice The Pie

Fancing helping us get £££ 4 an album? Yes? In that case we need u folks 2 go here: http://www.slicethepie.com/Music/ViewArtistProfile.aspx?id=4 306 and start reviewing, scouting and generally big...
Posted by The Racket on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:57:00 PST

New choooons!

Hurrah! We've cut some demo's of our new trax. We'll post em up 4 a short time only as soon as the mixes R finished. They R very ruff so they won't stay up 4 long. We'll keep u posted when they're h...
Posted by The Racket on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:28:00 PST