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The Knocking Shop

A.K.A The Phantom Jets

About Me

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The Knocking Shop (aka The Phantom Jets) were formed in the early nineties when everyone else wasn't looking. Operating largely in secret they built a fanbase that could pack a generously sized cutlery drawer.They released one cassette only album around fifteen years after this was a valid way to release anything. However as it cost £110 to record and as cassettes were cheap it broke even - unlike albums by many of their better known contemporaries!Although operating a rotating drummer policy the core of the group was bass player Del 'Boy' Barter, guitarist Dave 'Kid Gretsch' Connolly and vocals from Seamus 'Jet Phantom' Duggan (said vocals heard to their best effect on the instrumentals to which he cleverly wrote no words to in order to enable him to go to the bar during gigs). Drummers were 'Ozzie John' Healy, Albert Cowans and Eoin 'Skins' Hanna.They played everything from surf instrumentals to country dirges and are remembered fondly by a significant minority of the ex members. MORE 'HISTORY' HERE

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/6/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/theknockingshop
Band Members: Derek Barter - Bass guitar, vocals David 'Kid Gretsch' Connolly - Guitar, vocals Seamus Duggan - Vocals Eoin 'Skins' Hanna - DrumsOther members 'Ozzie John' Healy - Drums Albert Cowan - DrumsSpecial Guest Star Paddy Brady - Guitar
Influences: Beer, unemployment, boredom and football.
Seamus' List - (I won't speak for the others but mine include(d)):
Louis Armstrong, The Auteurs, Agnes Bernelle, Big Black, Big Star, The Birthday Party, The Blades, Blondie, Billy Bragg, Captain Beefheart, Buzzcocks, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Alex Chilton, The Clash, Lenard Cohen, Elvis Costello, The Count Five, Country Joe & The Fish, The Cramps, Ivor Cutler, The Dead Kennedys, Desperate Bicycles, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Jim Dickinson, Bob Dylan, Echo & The Bunnymen, Einsturzende Neubaten, The (mighty) Fall, The Fatima Mansions, Foetus, Gang of Four, The Go-Betweens, Vic Godard, The Golden Horde, Woody Guthrie, Half Man, Half Biscuit, Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra, John Lee Hooker, Howling Wolf, Husker Du, Iggy & the Stooges, The Jam, Joy Division, The Kinks, Link Wray, Luggage, Madness, Magazine, Microdisney, Momus, The Monks, Morrisey, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Willie Nelson, Orange Juice, Gram Parsons, John Peel, Pere Ubu, PIL, The Pixies, The Pogues, Elvis Presley, The Radiators, The Ramones, The Saints, Scritti Politti, Serious Drinking, The Sex Pistols, The Skids, Slade, The Smiths, Son House, The Sonics, Sonic Youth, Sparks, The Specials, Carl Stalling, The Stars of Heaven, Stiff Little Fingers, Swell Maps, Patti Smith, The Subway Sect, Talking Heads, Tav Falco Panther Burns, Television, That Petrol Emotion, Them, Thin Lizzy, Richard & Linda Thompson, Those Handsome Devils, The Undertones, Tom Waits, Wire, X Ray Spex, XTC, Neil Young, The Young Gods, The Zombies
Some of Eoins' influences follow - Zappa, Neil Young, Primus, Captain Beefheart, Oysterhead, Television, Public Enemy, King Crimson, David Sylvian, De la Soul, Can, Kraftwerk, Steely Dan, That Petrol Emotion, PJ Harvey, PIL ,Bomb the BasS, Neneh Cherry, Portishead, Cameo, Beck, MC5, Patti Smith, dinosaur jr, Giles Contraire, Alice Cooper, Buffalo Springfield, Cocteau Twins, Prince, Youssou N'dour, The Specials /Special AKA, The Beat.
Sounds Like: A dreamlike merging of Mark E Smith and Bob Dylan backed by the Velvet Underground (featuring Hubert Sumlin) with strings by the Russian Philharmonic scored by Shostakovitch with backing voclas by Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin and Patti Smith - guitar overdubs by Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd with extra rhythm from Talking Heads with atmospheric sounds provided by Brian Eno in collaboration with Pere Ubu and additional percussive sounds by Einsturzende Neubaten. This soundscape is then recreated without any of the above.
Record Label: It could be you
Type of Label: None

My Blog

This is the Renaissance

Until a few years ago my personal image of Sparks was in aspic - drollery, gunshots and Hitler mustaches in a Town not big enough for both of them. I owned none of their music bar the memories. Every ...
Posted by The Knocking Shop on Sat, 24 May 2008 01:25:00 PST

DEAD ROCK STARS (REPRISE)

I have spent the last number of days enjoying the joys of Nun Attax and Five Go Down To The Sea at www.getthatmonsteroffthestage.com Anchored by an audio documentary focusing on the eccentric Donnelly...
Posted by The Knocking Shop on Mon, 19 May 2008 10:24:00 PST

Time passed

God - five months since I posted a blog. Time, time, time...as Tom Waits says. My good intentions of continually posting what would build into a log of my listening, reading and watching habits have ...
Posted by The Knocking Shop on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:17:00 PST

Logging

I've finished reading Per Pettersons' (IMPAC shortlisted) Out Stealing Horses which I immediately filed as one of those books which will be read again. (Much like the novel's hero re-reads Dickens). T...
Posted by The Knocking Shop on Tue, 22 May 2007 08:08:00 PST

Vic Godard

You should pay a visit to Vic Godards' page (see my friends). He's currently at work on two projects - recording his own versions of the songs he wrote with Irvine Welsh for the musical Blackpool and ...
Posted by The Knocking Shop on Fri, 04 May 2007 03:36:00 PST

Kevin Rowland

I recently stumbled across Kevin Rowland's official Dexys Myspace page wich had somehow not appeared on previous searches for Dexys, Kevin Rowland etc. I had thought this would be his dream forum and ...
Posted by The Knocking Shop on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:59:00 PST

Slow Man

I just finished reading Slow Man this morning (see last entry). It was a very satisfactory read and the construct of the fictional author and hero was very subtly drawn. It is not swamped by...
Posted by The Knocking Shop on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:43:00 PST

Coincidence

Strange coincidence this morning - I am reading Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee which is pretty masterful for the first third anyhow. Last night my daughter picked out Stranger than Fiction on DVD. no input ...
Posted by The Knocking Shop on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:01:00 PST

Narrowband boiling point.

I live 2km from a broadband enabled telephone exchange and aroung three wireless nertworks service the general area but I can't get DSL over my telephone line or through any of the wireless networks. ...
Posted by The Knocking Shop on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:20:00 PST

The Weirdness has descended upon me

The Stooges new album has taken over my listening in a way that hasn't happened in a while. Lusty, louche, lazy, lounge lizard rock with that ironic dumb/smart® Osterberg lyrical angle it's far b...
Posted by The Knocking Shop on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:57:00 PST