El Rotringo: bass,b. voice Ashtone D'Stroy: guitar,b. voice Ashtone Gé: lead vocal Ashtone Max: guitar,b. voice
FACTORY in PIANORO (November 2007)
ROSSWEIN at SHOEMAKERS'HOME (March 2007)
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Influences
DEAD BOYS/RAMONES/STOOGES/NEW YORK DOLLS/HANOÏ ROCKS... it means Real Rawkers ONLYYYY...
Sounds Like
Living Dead's Last Temptation
(Artwork: El Rotringo 2K9) TOUS EN TONG (Janvier 2007) "La pochette laisse deviner ce qu'on va se prendre dans la gueule des le premier craquement de la galette: du Punk Rock & Roll Oldschool... On retrouve cette rage propre aux groupes de la vague Punk 77: DAMNED,HEARTBREAKERS et surtout les DEAD BOYS." PUNK RAWK (Mars 2007) A She-Devil is my Dope Fiend (autoproduction)
"Direct from Lille aux pirates! En direct des limbes du rock'n roll le plus teigneux,le plus lubrique et le plus fracassant. Celui qui a pour heros Stiv Bators,Dee Dee Ramone et G.G. Alin. Celui qui vénère les dieux vivants Iggy Pop,Hank von Helvete et Lucas Trouble. Ashtones est la glorification du riff instantané,du beat lapidaire et du chant bestial. Excellente initiation à l'univers du groupe lillois,ces huit titres (sic),joliment gravés sur un 25 cm à la pochette aux couleurs criardes,sont un ravissement pour toute personne aimant se faire récurer les oreilles de fond en comble. Bref,rachetez vous une platine! "(FF) OX FANZINE (N. 69) "Die ASHTONES wilderrn aber eher im rrotzigen und verschwitzten US Punk n' Roll der alten schule,also bei den DEAD BOYS,HEARTBREAKERS,STOOGES und greifen zudern enerrgie und hitppotenzial späterer vertreten vie den HUMPERS,NEW BOMB TURKS and DEVIL DOGS auf,kombiniert mit einen wunderbach verrauchten und versoffenen gesang." MUTINY ZINE (Nov. 2006) "Get this one if you're into the really dirty garage punk rock and roll stuff !" HIGH HEELS SLUT 10 (Oct 2007) "now a switch has been made on the guitar spot and this self-released 10" heads into the direction the band should have already taken years ago. The eight originals display a healthy addiction of singer Ashtone G. and his fellows for classics acts as the Dead Boys and the Stooges."
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New Line-up: 2008,June 27 @ Le Kingston (Le Havre/Fr)
ASHTONES+NICOTINE'S TEAM (Genova/Nov.2007)
2001, three guys brain smashed by "Young, Loud and Snotty", "L.a.m.f" and "It's Alive" chose to be ASHTONES (Thanx Ron & Scott).Then we were four, then five: it was the good line-up to do what we planned. We had gigs with bands like Gee Strings, Boss Martians, Sons of Cyrus, Peter Pan Speed Rock, Lucifer Starmachine... even Bellrays. 2003, we recorded a first demo "Rock&Roll Junkies". 2004, a second one "Santa Rocka Rolla".
2005: Ashtones record 4 songs at Kaiser Studio with Lucas Trouble. 3 of them find a place on "The Kaiser Fucks the New French Rock" (w/Holy Curse/Jerry Spider Gang/Dimi Dero Inc...). Among them the "Search & Destroy" cover where Lucas Trouble's organ do the napalm flow (A Vietnam Veteran..Who else could do that??). On September,Ashtones is the only french band at the "Wasted" (Melkweg/Amsterdam).
2006: Ashtone Dav leaves and Ashtone D.Stroy joins the gang. July,from 14th to 17th, the band records 9 killing songs. "A She-devil is my Dope fiend" (10") is out on October..and YOU CAN GET IT MOTHERFUCKERS.
2007: Ashtones tour in Germany,Netherlands,Belgium and Italy..get a deal with Nicotine Records for a first album Hellfire and Paradise Falls (9 studio songs+5 live songs).
2008: After a mini-tour in Germany,Debo leaved on May and Squatt entered as bass player. We're planning a spanish and an Italian tour,then a new album..
But it's better to leave the mike to Bowy from the Pits'team: "A She-Devil is my Dope fiend" review (Up Yours/January 2007)..
"Way more close to home comes the first vinyl output by the North French garage rats,THE ASHTONES. A unit led by skinny,razor-edged skin & bones vocals who looks and sounds as he's really been places and done all kinds of things you'd better not dare dream about. I mean he doe'nt only display credibility: he fuckin' IS streetwise credibility! These folks from Lille have been around over a few years,but-having them seen live a couple of times and judging from their previous demos-it was until they switched for a new lead guitar they actually got hold of a sound which fitted them really well. Of course this is greasy,filthy punk rock action running on booze,overtime medication,cheap night shop snacks and almost no sleep.""A She-Devil is my Dope Fiend" pretty much reveals the complete picture this 10" dwells in. This is the area where hoodlums like The Humpers,outcasts like The Pagans,hustlers and junkies like The Heartbreakers,living wrecks like The Dead Boys and jail birds like The Candysnatchers tend to meet and roams the cold,nightly outskirts of town. These tunes are the tails of the lost,the depraved,the shredded souls,the ripped-and-torn...and THE ASHTONES are able to lay down the goodies in the bare nakedness as a solid force to be reckoned with. Compared to their previous days I've seen this lot evolve. Due to hard work,relentless gigging and stubborn belief in their love for punkrock at its purest format this band has delivered a piece of wax that's way better than either Jerry Spider Gang or Holy Curse (to name some French acts who could be labelled in the same musical levels). These 9 cuts are way more into the Spannish region of Los Perros mixed up with some fine German Gee Strings elements. A nice surprise,done by the band themselves in a complete D.I.Y-effort. But nonetheless a worthwhile item to obtain especially since the 10" format seems to be way over it's hype and tends to be forgotten as a cool neat vinyl package."
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