The Convulsions
are a Punk Blues band originally based in Chicago when Ben Ruth, band founder,
brought with him from England the old concept of British Rhythm and Blues
as a sweat pouring, often blood letting, shaking manic musical experience
with roots in bands such as the Yardbirds, Pretty Things, Animals, Big Three,
(okay, even lunatics like Screaming Lord Sutch) and on the US side, Blues
Magoo's, Wailers, Sonics, Standells, Ramones, Iggy Pop et al: groups who shared
similar heroes in Little Richard, James Brown, Howlin' Wolf, and any number
of truly touched and demented kings and queens of iconoclastic riff based
mayhem during the US's turbulent musical past.
British Punk Blues combines elements of Rock, Blues, 50's rock and roll, and
60's Soul. British Rhythm and Punk Blues has always been characteristicly
very high energy, somewhat insane, yet strangely demented, and without pills
and frills.
British Punk Blues combines all of the above with thundering 70's ghetto funk
and 80's & 90's punk energy.
British Punk Blues demolishes emo rock with gusto wherever it finds it.
Convulsions live @ Stonewell Tavern, Lancaster - May 2009
The Convulsions - Pewsey Music Festival - August 2007
Hey Ben me and the boys lookin forward to seeing ya'll on Saturday and playin up there again with you, Geoff and co. Check yr inbox too please!!! Seeya soon... Stevieblues
Hoping to catch you chaps at Colne festival! Il be there with my pals Cold Flame and you're playing later the same day..hurray! Looking forward to it!x
Hello Ben, My my, you are a busy boy:)hope things are going good with you and the lads. Now that my house is more or less finished(cowboy builders)I am ready to go ahead and release my Ascension Meditation CD. Universal Music Publishing will be releasing it globally...look out world aye is a comin' in:)
Come join the celebration over the release of our new CD – Boteco!!
‘Boteco’ is an artful mixture of neo-futuristic traditional Brazilian rhythms with the right quantity of the best North American spices. It is funk and rock boiling and baking with samba, maracatu, frevo and baiao.
Put Pele and Mohammed Ali in a fictional mix machine. Now add Frank Zappa, Sergio Mendes, Tom Jobim and Roger Waters and fused in to one. What a mix eh? Bat Makumba is this fusion, multiplied by 2.
CD Release Parties: 10/31 Someday Lounge – Portland, OR 11/01 Cozmic Pizza – Eugene, OR 11/06 Moe’s Alley – Santa Cruz, CA 11/07 The Old Ironsides – Sacramento, CA 11/13 The Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA 11/21 Stage Door – Mount Shasta, CA 12/04 Harp Inn – Costa Mesa, CA 12/05 Santa Monica Bar & Grille – Santa Monica, CA ...more to come
Hi Ben, I have sent an introduction to Damien at Zebra Promotions, I suggest you send him an add request to hear you, with a note attached saying I have seen you and recommend him booking you...also, send an add request to DJ Grez on myfriends list, he is the one who runs several bars and clubs in and around Belfast..this is your best way forward:) if you need accomodation that I can supply lol provided it doesnt coincide with my building works..good luck! I cant wait to see you again, you are a great band, and you wonderfully different and multi talented..I just hope it is over here in N Ireland that I get to see you..
Hi Thanks for the comment. I like your stuff. On tour in Germany at pres, they,ve banned smoking here as well (well the ban,s ignored in Hamburg, and larger venues can have a smoking room, but no more smoking at the bar) Anyway, hope all,s well If you want to arrange a gig swap let me know, we,ll be playing england end of march April and a gain through the year. Cheers BB BlackDog
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