Winter 2008 team is: Lemmy Caution - guitar + vox//Mr.Stix - traps + vox//A.H.Lowdown - percussion + guitar. Aided + Abetted on occasion by: Janie Too Bad//Hamburger Mary//Red Exposure//Kamikaze U.T.//Pirate Love//Sadie Lola Shaw//Candy Random//Rico The Limbo King//The Katarakt
Influences
Electric Eels, Guitar Wolf, The Fall, Link Wray, Maytals, Billy Childish, Gories, Suicide, Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Buzzcocks, Flesheaters, Huggy Bear, Germs, Dion, Prince, Bikini Kill, NOU, Mummies, Black Flag, THE MONKS, Crime, Country Teasers, Specials, King Tubby, Roland Kirk, Pussy Galore, Rip-Offs, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Panther Burns, Subway Sect, Gossip, Cramps, Real Losers
The point is talent over ability, ideas over proficiency, energy over competence - action...time...and vision. I’m a monk…you’re a monk…we’re all monks!!! Basement dancing and drinking to soul + punk 45s. At some point in the confusion instruments are picked up and the resulting mess plants the seed of the band. Self-released vinyl-only long-player recorded the following weekend has 14 songs of bile and rage. Shambolic but passionate holler and wailin’ at the dying of the red lite. Staring out, being stared out, friction, trouble...hands balled into fists thrust into pockets walking down the street starting at my shoes getting spat on by strangers... occasionally we have rent parties at our dilapidated north London mansion at which we plug in and terrify our friends with improvised covers of Black Sabbath, Black Flag, "Black Is Black, I waaannnttt my ba-beee back" etc etc. Some of us moonlight in other combos like Sexaphone, Black Mamba Beat,Work that Skirt, Los Raw Gospels and the Subway Slims. We went to Europe a few times in 05 and loved the kids, the sights, the local punk rock and the break from wage-slave drudgery. More vinyl documents of never-ending in-ten-si-ty and travel to far-flung lands in the new year. Save us from getting lost in the London fog.
PARIS-PARIS!! - 26 juin : PARIS 20 @ la Feline + Dick Dave et DJ Set par Human Toys - 27 juin : PARIS 11 @ l'International + Human Toys et Dick Voodoo
BELGIQUE-BELGIQUE!! - 3 juillet : BELGIQUE :: La Louvière :: Taverne du Theatre + We are not Indians - 4 juillet : BELGIQUE :: Mons :: Bateau Ivre + We are not Indians et Drunken sailors
The debut tape for Fair Ohs has 7 songs of their noisey garage punk meets Minutemen with the occasional psych noise jam. There are on 50 tapes, on a mix of purple, blue and lilac colours, all wrapped up in hand spun, hand stiched felt covers, pretty special!
DIMANCHE 21 juin :: 6 groupes dès 18h! http://www.myspace.com/backtogarage BILLY BULLOCKS :: Pub Rock Soul :: Douarnenez THE OCTOPUS :: Heavy and Stoned Rock :: Douarnenez (WE ARE WONDERFUL) :: Comedy Trash Comedy FAT PANDAS :: Gros Pandas THE HAPPENING :: Happy Dance RHUM4PAULINE :: Local Bee Gees fete de la musique @ AU CHIEN STUPIDE
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RLR 057 THE MONKS: Pretty Suzanne 7“
(1967 UNRELEASED Heavy FUZZ Version from Mega Rare One-sided Acetate)
This is the one to change the History Books. So far we were lead to believe that the Monks, after their LP failed to Chart tuned it down and tried a couple more pop tunes bevor vanishing in oblivion. The truth is far from that: Bound by their contract with Polydor, the Monks were unable to develope their music the way they really wanted to. In 1967 the Monks went on their own time and money into Tonstudio Pfanz near Hamburg to record this smashing Fuzz driven Freak Beat Version of Pretty Suzanne behind Polydors back!!Trying to fu** over Germany’s biggest Record Label???? It doesn’t get more Punk than that in my book!!! Sure enough they got in trouble for it and this killer Version remained unreleased to this day.
First ever Legit Re-issue in full Cooperation with the Monks. Mastered from the Original ( Only Known!!) Acetate. In Amazing High Fidelity Fuzz Sound!!!
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