Stephen Parfitt,
Chris Watts,
Simon Rackham,
Scott Turnbull
Influences
Only Ones, Velvet Underground, 60's bubblegum pop, Blues Explosion, Rolling Stones, Buzzcocks, T-Rex, Nancy Sinatra, Slaughter Joe, Beach Boys, The Who, Everly Brothers, Big Star, Sonic Youth etc.
"Sisterlovers ride Harley Davidson motorbikes
with bass bins strapped to the fenders. Rocking acid screamers living in their
own technicolour cloud filled with Jimi Hendrix fuzz pedals, Captain Scarlet
costume changes, kaleidoscopes, dayglo Matchbox cars and pink bubbles."
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Review: Tic Toc Coventry.
While the umpteenth summer of love continues apace, Coventrys Tic Toc club
throws open its doors for the second series of concerts featuring local bands.
The month of Saturdays is also being recorded by BBC CWR for transmission. First
up (by choice) are those tequila drinkers and hellraisers from Rugby,
Sisterlovers, whose opening salvo "Feel It" is an arsequake made in freaky
dancing heaven. Hailed in some quarters as the saviours of the three-minute pop
song, Sisterlovers appear to be the product of a deep and meaningful
relationship between
Only One Peter Perrett and
Nancy Sinatra. "Don't Go And Leave Me" is bursting at the seams with teen
angst lyrics and mind bending guitar invention. While "Ode To Unbelievable
Freedom" possesses one of the finest hooks in the pop vocabulary.
The Stones are shown a thing or two with a towering rendition of "2000 Light
Years" which implodes amid a squall of feedback. And then they're gone. For an
encore (the only one of the night),
Steve Parfitt and his merry band of outlaws launched into "Think Again" with
wild abandon. Punk meets
Walt Disney in a technicolour explosion of sound. After that the only way of
coming down was to cool off in the park. Fortunately I was found in the morning.
Pre-European tour article
(...a while back): The story so far... I first met Steve not long after
my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't
bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with the miserably
weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead. With the coming of
Steve Parfitt began the part of my life you could call my life on the road.
When Spocks Brain haemorrhaged in 1987 it appeared life in Rugby would never be
the same again. However lodged in the deep recesses of the vulcan grey matter
were two cells that still knew how to rock and roll. In an experiment in noise
terror, a mad scientist transplanted the living remnants into the body of an
entity known as Kandyland. Guitar and drum machine in hand, the thing(!) stalked
the country, corrupting the nation's youth with its effortless guitar pop and
lurid t-shirts. A single and
video were even recorded with the help of indie pop colossus
Joe Foster, but were suppressed by the authorities. Children as young as
nine or ten turned to crime to purchase its exclusive wares. One such case was
Chris "sherbet dib-dab" Watts. Once a respectable fun-loving indie kid,
Chris was instantly transformed into an axe-wielding maniac upon hearing those
opening bars of "Yeah Yeah Someone" for the first time. Local funster
John "Herschell Gordon" Purcell
even dared to let the creature play in Rugby at a party that ended in an orgy of
frenzied dancing and flying bananas! A third tape was produced at Kandyland's
Mondo H.Q. lair. Then something strange happened - Kandyland was no more.
Sisterlovers were borne out of a casual relationship with
Big Star earlier this year. Former Kandy darlings Steve,
Sugarbass Simon and Chris traded in their collective identity for a new name
and an uncanny ear for a savage pop tune. A transcontinental express ride across
Europe yielded new concerts, and a swift change of drummer on their return saw Scott "Paul Bonzo Skin Tickler" Turnbull take up the cause. The bands
notorious visit to Coventry for one magical night of midsummer madness shall
pass into history. Needless to say, an interview with the 'Lovers triangle
player was never broadcast. And so onwards and upwards. Rugby's Black Swan and
the Dog and Trumpet in Coventry are only the latest in a string of wildly
successful dates. Hugely influential and still unsigned, the band are currently
gearing up for an early induction into the rock n roll Hall of Fame.
Duncan Seaman.
"It could be your street... your house... your
life! When the bell rings... don't answer! It could be the Sisterlovers"
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A selection of pix from the second
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