This Australian quintet is nailing the sounds of classic garage rockers such as The Troggs, Creation, and The Animals. Shutdown 66 seem to be having the time of their lives, and that is the element in the songs that sells the songs. Also, WELCOME TO DUMPSVILLE is a complete effort. The sounds come across as an authentic product rather than homage. Don't get me wrong: it is homage; but, Shutdown 66's music could be straight-up 1966. In lesser hands this approach could seem phony and or calculated, but here it doesn't. Some of my favorite moments on WELCOME TO DUMPSVILLE is "Pleasantville", "Fink Is the King", and "Shutdown 66". Very cool.
-H. Barry Zimmerman
Shutdown 66 - Welcome To Dumpsville High LP
Snot, snot, snot! This isn't a garage-punk record, it's a used Kleenex, or
rather one of the most refreshing LPs I've heard recently. Maybe I just don'
t listen to contemporary garage sounds enough, but Nicky, Micky, Jamie, and
Camby Shutdown, with the help of Scotty 66 on drums (actually, it's the
Corduroy gang from down under), really managed to flabber-gasp me with this
lo-fi looking yet mid-fi sounding affair. Nicky takes his vocal cues from
Corduroy faves Green On Red, vociferatin' all through the alb like a pissed
Dan Stuart with a cold, hence the triple snot remark. Beautiful! The organ's
a-pumpin', the classic garage licks and riffs are tackled, abused and kicked
around like a pickled human head at a pre-Colombian soccer game, and the
songs. They truly do kill, be it the band's frantic theme tune, with its
soulful rasp of an intro ("I never had no money, and no luck with chicks, I'
m shutdown 66!"), the killer R&B feast of "Gone For Bad", the souped-up
Diddley stylings of "Knock On Your Window", or the quintessential
Teengenerate tribute "Fink Is The King" (of rock n'roll, that is), complete
with Fink-style muffled Rob Youngerisms. Somewhat akin to a slightly wiser
version of the Sexareenos, Shutdown 66 kicked my ass across the room, and I
came back for more.
Crawdaddy Simon
Final gig at Yah Yah's, kiss The Shimmys good-bye. For a piece of
us, don't forget The Shimmys new album "Brunettes on the rocks" is
available at 'Off the Hip' (www.offthehip.com.au) or buy a copy at the
show.
Thee Wylde Oscars this Saturday July 18 @ the North Melbourne Town Hall Hotel, 10pm - FREE! New obscure garage R&B and powerpop numbers to shake ur ass to!
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Come on down & get WYLDE! Join Thee Wylde Oscars for some soul shredding nights of Garage, R&B & Powerpop - Good old stuff plus new songs we're dying for you to hear!
If i pass around a partition to get Shutdown 66 in nsw again... will you guys do it?
I mean, i love the breadmakers.. seeing them ruled, and i'd love seeing them again very soon as well... But, Shutdown 66 NEED to get off their butts and play some shows -The annoying prick, jake
