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An
ice-cream wall of sound kicking sand in the face of a stagnant
local scene, Liverpool's Beach Bastards are an expression of the
British obsession with all things American. From Uncle Sam to the
coke can, most of us chew the 100% pure beef pattie of US culture,
but would you give these surf mutants in cheap bermuda shorts a
lift in your little deuce coupe?
The album "Son of a Beach" capitalised on a cult status
that lead to the circulation of bootleg tapes and even the appearance
of fake Bastards claiming
to be the real thing.
The Bastards themselves have stolen much from the book of Good Vibrations. "We
have a lot in common with the Beach Boys, both band names begin with the letter
B, one of us is mad and we live on the west coast."
Hero Joey Ramones given his approval at a live show and Brian Wilson's T-shirt
is apparently in the post.
With songs like "I Gotta Surfboard" (and I'm Gonna Use It), a highly
developed sense of humour and their penchant for four-part harmonies set against
raw noise,
the Bastards biggest worry is that will be seen
as seaside Sex-Pistols.
John Mcready | The Face Magazine
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WOW GIGS!
The band would like to thank all the punters who attended
the recent 20th anniversary weekend gigs.
If you didn't manage to blag a T shirt or CD check out our
SHOP.
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Merchandising
Check out our new
shop for T shirts
and the new collectors edition of SonofaBeach on CD.
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Creeeaaaaak... The Archive opens once more
Rock Salmon was blowing the dust off
his old reel-to-reel a few days ago (in the loft) and decided
he would have a
go at fixing it! After a bit of jiggery pokery with a belt
drive it hummed back to life with a faint smell of burning
and (with the covers off and live components a-crackle) he
proceeded to transfer some more tunes. Now for the first
time since 1988 you can revel to the previously unreleased
EP versions of:
I Gotta Surfboard
Love on the Platform South
Surfin's So Hard
These were destined for a vinyl EP on Probe, but we ended
up recording the album instead.
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Bearshare Downloading
We are now the MOST DOWNLOADED punk
band on
the Bearshare spotlight
music section we are celebrating by giving you a brand new
version of an old favourite TV
Affair (Instrumental Dub version) 2005 can
be downloaded NOW! Please note that this is a superior version
to the previously
available "Skanky Furcker" fictional artiste mix.
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