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The Nervous Shakedown

Idle hands are the devils trap

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It started with a kiss, then it turned into a fight. So lets fight......PRESS ..... " big, filthy, dark and gloriously brutal, The Nervous Shakedown are here to show how rock really should be."HeathenAngel.co.uk "an absolute rock beast, which packs an enormous punch that, is fierce, heavy and unrelenting.Top notch tunes which are attached to a battery pack of energy and excitement.Sleazy, dirty and probably wrong but it damn well feels good." S Glacken , LeedsMusicScene. "chunking riffs the size of mountains.Hurrah music that makes me excited. A crystallisation of the last fifty years of american rock,really is one to jump about to , could you ask for anything more ? No" Joyzine. "The Nervous Shakedown were positively monumental" Oliver Goodyear, GIGWISE.COM "they will have Alan McGhee and other such lovers of New York inspired guitar filth baying at the door!". R.Garnett.LeedsMusicScene. "they sound like a jam between Led Zep and BRMC, conducted by Kurt Cobain.....dark, heavy and tight"....Vibrations Magazine. "The Nervous Shakedown are reclaiming Rock n Roll".. Gigwise.com Click here for more reviewsFind more amazing free myspace templates at myspace-html-layout.com!


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Member Since: 2/12/2006
Band Website: nervousshakedown.co.uk
Band Members: Dan - Vocals, Bass and percussion. Mark - Guitar and Big Muff. Chris - Drums. Dave - Pedal steel , Bass and Vocals.Management : AMA management email. [email protected]
Influences: Influences and inspiration... Masters of reality, Kyuss, White stripes,MC 5, The Stooges, Black Mountain, Can, Rl Burnside, Black Keys, Blue Cheer, Funkadelic, Sabbath, Pj harvey, KC and the sunshine band,MC5, Curtis Mayfield, Tom Waits, Deep Purple, BEck, PJ harvey, Screaming Trees, Eric Burdon and War, Captain Beefheart,Soundgarden, The doors, QOTSA, John Spencer etc etc
Sounds Like: The press says....." big, filthy, dark and gloriously brutal, The Nervous Shakedown are here to show how rock really should be."HeathenAngel.co.uk"an absolute rock beast, which packs an enormous punch that, is fierce, heavy and unrelenting.Top notch tunes which are attached to a battery pack of energy and excitement.Sleazy, dirty and probably wrong but it damn well feels good." S Glacken , LeedsMusicScene."chunking riffs the size of mountains.Hurrah music that makes me excited. A crystallisation of the last fifty years of american rock,really is one to jump about to , could you ask for anything more ? No" Joyzine."The Nervous Shakedown were positively monumental" Oliver Goodyear, GIGWISE.COM"they will have Alan McGhee and other such lovers of New York inspired guitar filth baying at the door!". R.Garnett.LeedsMusicScene."they sound like a jam between Led Zep and BRMC, conducted by Kurt Cobain.....dark, heavy and tight"....Vibrations Magazine."The Nervous Shakedown are reclaiming Rock n Roll".. Gigwise.com
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My Blog

Summertime Blues

There is a cure for the summertime blues..... write, record and plan for our autumn gigs! We have been working on a couple of new tunes ( Idle hands and the Devils plan and one head crushing instrumen...
Posted by The Nervous Shakedown on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:27:00 PST

Straight out of the Big Bang

Bending Wills is the first track to come out of the newly created Big Bang Recording establishment. Five more shakedown tunes have also been recorded there in the last week and will be made available...
Posted by The Nervous Shakedown on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:24:00 PST

Siezethedayer Festival review

LeedsMusicScene. Gig Date: Saturday, 29th March 2008 . Red Go Green Stop @ Carpe DiemBy Mark Robinson Seizethedayer Festival, in which promoters of local bands get together and organise an all-day...
Posted by The Nervous Shakedown on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:36:00 PST

new songs and live recordings

No gigs now till December so we are working on new tunes. Working titles for new  tunes ...The force of the issue,  No Substance No Control and Now its Happened. Listening back to some ...
Posted by The Nervous Shakedown on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:55:00 PST

Hardys blog........................

Review of events at 02 by Leeds based Artist Neil Hardy.... The Nervous Shakedown at the O2 Wireless festival! After uploading some new photos of leeds band The Nervous Shakedown playing at the O2 W...
Posted by The Nervous Shakedown on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:18:00 PST

more reviews......

The Nervous Shakedown - Demo E.P. 2 The Nervous Shakedown have further honed their sound since the latest demo CD they sent HeathenAngels way (read review of that CD here). Back are the heavy blues ...
Posted by The Nervous Shakedown on Wed, 17 May 2006 02:10:00 PST

Leeds Music Scene review

The Nervous Shakedown Untitled June 2005 Words by Simon Glacken Well known for their sleazy stoner rock The Nervous Shakedown have been spreading their own brand of guitar filth across West Yor...
Posted by The Nervous Shakedown on Wed, 17 May 2006 02:05:00 PST

Joyzine Review

>THE NERVOUS SHAKEDOWN - COME WITH ME This is some big noisy rock music, containing shades of what I think Kerrang now call old school metal with chunking riffs the size of mountains, but with...
Posted by The Nervous Shakedown on Wed, 17 May 2006 01:59:00 PST