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Detroit Social Club

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"There are only two adjectives music writers care about – “brilliant” and “different” – and Detroit Social Club - despite only being together an incredibly short amount of time - already have a freehold on both.
This is largely due to lead singer and songwriter David Burn’s determination to shake up a musical landscape, which has become both bland and predictable. He has spent the last two years in the band’s purpose built studio on the banks of the Tyne, carefully producing and piecing together a music assemble which is as refreshing as it is dynamic, with some of the North-East’s finest young musicians making up the six-piece.
Kneading New York’s vibrant 1970s punk scene with the Detroit Garage stage of the mid 1990s, you can’t fail to be blown away by the dirty overdriven guitar riffs, heavy bass, booming drums and fantastically raw and powerful vocals.
But what will engage the audience most is the way the filthy rock rock-n-roll is complimented by the fact that they have something to say. This is summed up perfectly by the delicate nature of the lyrics, which ooze soul and passion and show the insightful side to a group who is not scared to deliver messages about love and life. They make you remember why you enjoy music in the first place, they make you aware of all those lost girlfriends and the friends that helped you forget them, and why it is we all go out on a Friday smoke an outrageous amount of cigarettes and fall over each other on nightclub dance floors.
Detroit Social Club come together to create a quite unique and hugely magnetic sound which - despite being already drawn in comparisons to acts such as the Velvet Underground, Brian Jones Town Massacre, Gomez and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – is set to stamp it’s very own authority in a market that is crying out for something more."
Jon Corbett, The Crack Magazine, June 2008.
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some little reviews
Top bands of 2008 - The Gen
"Once a year - if we are lucky - do we receive a demo that excites us as much as Detroit Social Club"
C4 Teletext
"I think this band could be the biggest in the world. They could be the best band in the world. They could write the greatest songs your ears have ever heard. They could raise the oceans and level mountains. Except I only think it. I get the impression that the Detroit Social Club might actually believe it; but they just want to keep it to themselves. "
Whisper Mag
"Men screaming “C’mon!” over heavy psychedelic swirls of blues riffs has been the lifeblood of rock and roll since drummers used to wear chain mail and pigeons delivered the post. 2008’s preachers are Detroit Social Club – and their congregation is everybody susceptible to hyperbole in the music industry. This band, they are purring, are: “Going to be Huge!/The Real Deal!/Fooking Proper!”."
Alex Miller, NME
"We got given this Cd a couple of days ago, its got a couple of tracks on it. That was Silver, we like it, and we are gonna investigate further for you..."
Zane Lowe, Radio 1 (after playing Silver)
"Wow, thats amazing..."
Zane Lowe, Radio 1 (after playing Rivers & Rainbows)
"DSC aren't from detroit, but sound like they could be. though the sextet have only been together a few months, tonight they're a bigger draw than either The Backhanded Compliments, featuring half of Milburn, or Skeletons, with ex-members of thisGIRL. Indeed, DSC's bluesy triple guitar assault threatens to blow away even The Shakespeare's tiny PA, while their finale and best song 'Sunshine People' comes on like BRMC if they'd taken extra classes at The Verve's college of bombast. Needless to say, it floored us."
NME Live Review
"Perhaps rather predictably, Noel Gallagher has been exclaiming Oasis's imminent seventh album, Dig Out Your Soul, as the band's best work since Definitely Maybe. However, if first single The Shock Of The Lightning is anything to go by, it's merely another set of tired lad-rock from a band that ran out of real ideas quite some time ago.Instead of deluding himself that his group are still as important as they once were, maybe Gallagher should consider passing the baton to Newcastle's Detroit Social Club, a band who harness the power of their forbears but replace the macho swagger with genuine talent.Despite only being together for under a year, the group have been snapped up by the same management company as Arctic Monkeys, and are set to release their debut EP, Rivers & Rainbows, at the end of October. Led by singer-songwriter David Burn, their sound ranges from Jack Nitzsche-inspired psychedelia, complete with rolling drums and spectral plucking, to acoustic-based singalongs.The group's strongest tracks, Sunshine People and Forever Wonderland, skilfully meld the percussive stomp of Kasabian and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with the raspy preaching of Richard Ashcroft and Iggy Pop. On this evidence, Detroit Social Club possesses a frontman with the potential to be as revered as the latter two. Step aside, Liam...."
Metro Paper
"Its exciting times as the music scene has come full circle. American bands such as MGMT are mindblowing, and the UK have some fantastic new bands - Detroit Social Club could be incredible"
Tom Meighan (Kasabian) C4 teletext interview
"Never has a demo landed on my desk that has stopped me in my tracks as much as Detroit Social Club. On any level - national or local, signed or unsigned - this is the some of the most authentic music I have heard for a long time. The diveristy is such that describing it is impossible, they seem to can a sound that is unique in every way, shape or form. The fact that they have produced this themselves leaves me in even more amazement."
Play!
"Talent shines. It is little wonder that there is so much exhilaration: finally, in Detriot Social Club, a band has emerged eager to challenge that hangover the industry has been nurturing since the demise of the Libertines; the hangover the precedes the ebullient, transcendental presence of a defining rock’n’roll band." Planet Notion
"SNAP OF THE DAY: DETROIT SOCIAL CLUB Incredible dirty, bluesy rock and roll, Detroit Social Club are the sound of sweaty (probably), bearded men crunching bass and shredding guitars in, well, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Taking Mark Lanegan, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and parts of Kasabian as their influence, they've already got one complete, utterly brilliant barnstormer in 'Sunshine People', which nicks the bass line from Billy Cobham's 'Stratus' (also sampled on Massive Attack's 'Safe From Harm'), placing some potent, absorbing riffs over the top. Unsigned at present, don't be surprised if these become subject of a label bidding war in no time at all."
CMU Music Network 16.06.08
"In a world where everyone aspires to be the next so and so, Detroit Social Club ooze passion, soul and meaning. You not only listen to it, you get wrapped up in every colour and shape that is being painted infront of you. I want to go and write songs again."
Chronicle
"Outstanding. As Detroit Social Club carry on their undoubted upward trajectory, lets hope they are allowed to keep their raw, soulful sound, which not only sticks out a mile, but entraps you into their world."
High Voltage
"Perhaps the most fitting description, though, is the band’s own, as they aim to evoke that feeling of 'standing on a dance floor with your best mate when a tune comes on and knowing that nothing else matters for the next three and a half minutes'."
Metro.co.uk
"This band crossed our path, stopped us in our tracks, nailed us to the floor, slapped our face and left us begging for more. Filled to bursting point with raw passion and soul we are certain this young act will go far."
Amazingtunes
"The bastard love child of Beck and BRMC"
TEO Music
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Member Since: 4/9/2006
Band Website: detroitsocialclub.net
Band Members: David Burn - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Production/Songs. Dale Knight - Keys, Guitar, Bass. David Welsh - Guitars. Johnny Bond - Guitars, Sitar, Noises. Chris McCourtie - Bass, Guitars. David Green - Drums/Percussion.
Influences: Not influenced, but inspired by the approaches, sounds and songwriting of...Gomez, De La Soul, Hearing Steve Marriot sing for the first time, The Velvet Underground, The songs that were your bible when you were growing up, The Stooges, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The lyric that defines you, The Jackson Analogue, Beck, The 16yr old you meet at a party who knows the words to every Bowie song and lives his life by them, The Verve, Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, The first time you listend to a song and related to it, Mr Phill Spector, Brian Wilson, Aretha, The passion you had when you were writing your first song when you were 14, Small Faces, Otis Redding, Portishead, The people who lose friends and money but make music, The Coral, The Who, Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Standin on a dancefloor with your best mate when a tune comes on, knowing nothing else matters for the next three and a half minutes, Death In Vegas, Long nights,In no way inspired by Kate Nash.

Sounds Like: Analogue experimentation of the modern kind.Retro-Big beat-Gospel influenced-junkie folk, made in 1970s New York
Record Label: Stranded Soldier
Type of Label: None

My Blog

review / Best of In The City gig at Camden Barfly / Stockton gig

Nice review from teletext for our single (out on 27th) "The debut from the immensely exciting heirs to all thats rock and roll. Hints of Zep's eastern forays, but the scope of their supple, jammed fun...
Posted by Detroit Social Club on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:37:00 PST

RIVERS & RAINBOWS/SILVER PRE ORDER LINK

If you haven't already, our single can be pre-ordered from the link below, for only £2.99!!!!! WELL WORTH IT!!!!!! http://www.play.com/Search.aspx?searchtype=allproducts&searc hstring=detroit+social+cl...
Posted by Detroit Social Club on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:30:00 PST

WWW.DETROITSOCIALCLUB.NET

Not only are we now on facebook, but we also have a spanking new website to call our own! head over to www.detroitsocialclub.net for all news, views, features and other thing related to DSC. The websi...
Posted by Detroit Social Club on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:57:00 PST

Facebook

DSC have finally caught up with the facebook world and added a page. If you have facebook (lets face it, who doesnt?!?!) then just search for us in the normal search box, and add yourself as a fan...I...
Posted by Detroit Social Club on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:37:00 PST

October Tour!!!

Dates now up for October tour, check 'em out!
Posted by Detroit Social Club on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:37:00 PST

As so many of you have been asking...(Single news!)

As so many of you have been asking about getting a hold of some tracks, we are pleased to announce that our debut single "Rivers & Rainbows" will be released on either the 20th or 27th October on ...
Posted by Detroit Social Club on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:40:00 PST

Clash Magazine Cover CD!!!!

Just found out Detroit Social Club will be on Clash Magazine's cover mount CD in September. So, it is worth buying the magazine for this reason alone. the track has just been confirmed as being "Thous...
Posted by Detroit Social Club on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:35:00 PST

NME Live Review, Radar Piece and Free Download!!!

Nice live review from NME this week, from our gig in Sheffield on 31/07/08... "DSC aren't from detroit, but sound like they could be. though the sextet have only been together a few months, tonight th...
Posted by Detroit Social Club on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:32:00 PST

Manchester & Glasvegas

Just a note to say a massive thankyou to the people who came from all over the country to see us over the weekend. Your support is always appreciated. A heavy gigging weekend was nicely wrapped u...
Posted by Detroit Social Club on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:42:00 PST

Eventually...A Mailing List!

Well, being long overdue, we now have a mailing list set up! With info on dates, tours, demos and releases (including exciting news about our forthcoming lt edition vinyl release!) the mailing list is...
Posted by Detroit Social Club on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:26:00 PST