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Bootstrap

The original fuzzle zip grind with lap steel slide

About Me



VIVA DANG!

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What oh twot be BOOTSTRAP. Well it be this, begun by this lot.

We like garage. We like surf. We like Skiffle. We like fuzzy groovy hairy stuff that gets people moving. We like it a lot.

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Member Since: 4/6/2006
Band Website: thebootstrap.co.uk
Band Members:Delmondo Fox - Bass, Vocal
Slim Bones - Guitar
Tim Williams - Drum
Cloudyhead - Lap Steel, Acoustic Guitar

Influences: PAVEMENT, BLUES EXPLOSION, BLACK KEYS, VELVET UNDERGROUND, PIXIES, DJANGO REINHART AND THE WHO. Oh, and Jacob's Mouse. Count Five, Bessie Smith, Royal Trux, The Sonics, the chips, Violent Femmes, Cramps. JJ Cale, johnny cash, the kingsmen, hank williams, boss hog, libertines, ac acoustics, birdland, Bedridden, young holt trio, penguin cafe orchestra, Carole King, Moonflowers, and the fantabulous, most groooovy jon spencer blues explosion.

Sounds Like: Witch - The Sonics
Boxeldar - Pavement
Green Hornet - Al somebody
96 Tears - Question Mark and The Mysterians
Add it up - Violent Femmes
Wail - Blues Explosion
Wak Wak - Young Holt Trio
Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
Please don't Cry - The Sea Urchins
Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth
Highway 61 - Dylan
Telephone & Rubber Band - Penguin Cafe orchestra

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My Blog

Sunday Gig Transplant to Monkey Chews

If yer coming to see Bootstrap on Sunday. We have moved! Tommy Flynns pub has some music license problems that mean no gig on Sunday. The Bloody Awful promoter lot have found new venue for said gig at...
Posted by Bootstrap on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:33:00 PST

sun dried sunday

Smell them rivets? No? Well they be popping out and bursting with 19 furtive flavours. I can smell'em Smell'em with us in live smell-o-vision on SUNDAY at TOMMY FLYNNS in CAMDEN (mornington crescent ...
Posted by Bootstrap on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:31:00 PST

Griswald gets happy

I think you're all fucked in the head. We're ten hours from the fucking fun park and you want to bail out? Well I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for f...
Posted by Bootstrap on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:07:00 PST

As seen on tv

 I'm not a secret lemonade drinker, but we have put a new vid up if ya interested... ...
Posted by Bootstrap on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:38:00 PST

Three Shows - Two Venues - One night. Thatll be us, then.

OK. Some ideas are just darn silly, some make ya gawp and some twizzle round and lift that left eyebrow going why the hell not? Give it a try, it cant be as bad as Vegemite. Well we'll find out...on s...
Posted by Bootstrap on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:29:00 PST

This is how it goes down

This is how it goes down. This is how it always goes down. Its cold. Its late. Out of the shadows a brim of a hat leers up at ya and its whispering. His eyes trace ya through the eyebrows and he ...
Posted by Bootstrap on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:03:00 PST

Zee mighty Dirty Love and de fiesty Bootstrap shuffle

its on 12th May 9pm in Aylesbury Zee mighty Dirty Love and de fiesty Bootstrap spend this Saturday at the Lantern, Aylesbury going boom boom bang.Dirty Love play raunchy rock that seductively straddle...
Posted by Bootstrap on Fri, 11 May 2007 07:36:00 PST

Bootstrap get friggin xfemminated out of the darn blue yonder

UPDATE!!! Voting for the final four bands is open Click ere for bonafide happy warm fuzzy feelin     Yaheudi Menhuin!I just got this e-mail from XFM:Congratulations! Your band (that'd be BOO...
Posted by Bootstrap on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:22:00 PST

Smoke that sacred kipper

Mister? Swap yer slippers fer kippers. Bootstrap get down all hairy at the Dublin Castle at the end of the month for licks and tricks with guitar picks. Its the 31st. Thats a Saturday and well it...
Posted by Bootstrap on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:54:00 PST

Dong gawn dang, Pleasure Unit summons shortly next wed

Now, lets get existenstencil baby. The thing about music is this. You just can't pause it like a movie, draw it or photo it. You pause it, it stops dead. Its gone. Zip and void. It don't exist in...
Posted by Bootstrap on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:21:00 PST