The road for street-punk rabble rousers RAT CITY RIOT hasn’t been without its bumps and crashes, or for that matter, stinky socks and bloody knuckles. After 700 shows and several members, the now 5-strong group from San Diego is finally putting feet to ground and fist to face. Since 2003, the spirit of Oi, hardcore punk, and balls out rock-n-roll has pumped RAT CITY RIOT to perform globally from the local homegrown towns to the metros of Europe. Original members Noah Bricker (vocals) and Chris Barclift (guitars) needed no permission to start up their aggressive punk rock fueled mission. From the beginning, the boys have had to scrape by with little to nothing, but with true DIY ethics and a concrete allegiance to their music.
Working initially with Taang! Records, RAT CITY RIOT learned a hard lesson about trust and survival. They managed to do their first US tour on a shaky budget and released “Dirty Rotten Games” in 2004. It took another three years of piecemeal, pounding the pavement, and selling their merchandise to record the “Open Road” EP For Release on Street Anthem Records. In 2007, RAT CITY RIOT toured Europe and the entire U.S. in their rolling assault transport passenger van. Along the way, they picked up members Daniel Franco (bass guitar), Alex Patterson (ex-Guns on the Run) (guitars) and newest member Gavin Glenn(ex-Red Lotus) (drums).
The guys’ can boast sharing the stage with Dropkick Murphys, Slaughter & the Dogs, The Business and Roger Miret and the Disasters. This fall 2008, RAT CITY RIOT blitzes over Germany with new material from the forthcoming release “Load Up”. Take it or leave it, RAT CITY RIOT..s motto is: “Image is nothing. Live the life, not the lifestyle…”
Hey fellas! Can't believe you aint playin' England...... Fuck....... Enjoy AJZ tonight! We played AJZ Bahndam last year and it was fuckin' awesome, us n the Sea Legs had a fuckin' awesome gig! They really looked after us too! Stay in touch n we'll do some shows next year maybe? But not like the O'Connels place where the promoter fucks off with our money!!!!!! Cheers Stoney
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Listen to Batching It's debut album "Homage" in it's entirety before it is released! CD out in January 2010! Featuring songs by NOFX, Skankin' Pickle, Swingin' Utters, Pearl Jam, Rancid, Lagwagon, Metallica, Sublime, No Use For a Name, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, No Doubt, The Descendents, Less Than Jake and Operation Ivy!
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noir, bars, women & cars - from vegas to dago, the brothels of germany to doha, kuwait: a wild & gritty collection of 17 cuts: pomes & prose, plus 3 excerpts from the novel, ‘the ants, thirsty,’ all from the former editor/columnist of 86…the man who put "hard fic" on the streets…the hardcore referee/translator/negotiator you’d hire when sitting bookended in a bar between nick tosches & chuck palahniuk.
"look, the stuff is good. quite good. straight up - like a good half-glass of whiskey." —dan fante, author of ‘mooch,’ ‘spitting off tall buildings,’ ‘kissed by a fat waitress,’ & ‘a gin pissing raw meat dual carburetor v-8 son of a bitch from los angeles.’
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& thanks for dismantling my html codes....which is an odd thing for a band to do when they paste flyers up all the time. just sayin. ; ) hope tours goin well. jm
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