Steve Turner: Vocals, Guitar.
Johnny Sangster:Vocals, Farfisa, Guitar.
Jim Sangster: Vocals, Bass Guitar.
Kevin Warner: Drums, Banjo.
Former/Future members: Stone Gossard, Dan Peters, Holly Go-Lightly, Bruce Brand.
Influences
The Clash, Charlie Rich, Replacements, Violent Femmes, Reigning Sound, Damned Damned Damned, Urinals, Blue Cheer, Mickey Newbury, Swell Maps, Townes Van Zandt, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, Summerhill, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Feedtime, Holly Go-Lightly, Mekons, Saints, Clancy Brothers, Kent 3, Gene Clark, Byrds, Birds, Dug Dug's, Sonics, and I am now bored with this list.
Record Label
Funhouse Records UK, Roslyn Records, Super Electro
"No-one gives a shit what you think. No-one gives a shit what you do. No-one gives a shit what you say, so you might as well do it anyway." - 'No-one Gives a Shit' - Steve Turner.
From the opening track on his new album, it appears that Steve Turner has decided to take a piece of his own advice. Much like Graeme Coxon had to separate himself from Blur to make music more to his liking (which coincidentally sounds a bit like Steve Turner) it seems that Mudhoney guitarist Turner has a creative itch he can only scratch when the rest of the band aren't looking. So off he went and recorded this, his 3rd album.
Musically, it is unsurprisingly from the same gene pool as Mudhoney but with less fuzz and more keyboards. Less Grunge, More Garage. Like his suprising and good previous album 'Bad Ideas' (not suprising that it was good, suprising that that's what a Steve Turner solo project sounds like) New Wave Punk Asshole continues Turner's apparent preoccupation with an approaching middle-age. Where 'Bad Ideas' was slightly melancholic, 'New Wave Punk Asshole', as the title suggests, is more self-deprecating, a shrug of the shoulders and a grumble at the ageing process.
All the songs have a certain charm and some are genuinely funny, Turner would make a great narrator in a sitcom. Here he is trying to get laid on Sex Date Saturday Night "We're not getting any younger, our relationships are pretty much failures, we might as well do it together" or this fantastic salvo on Stupid Blues "My friends are stupid, some of them are morons, I don't understand how we got to be so boring." A depressing thought for the rest of us when you think he still tours and records with Mudhoney.
A fine record of 16 little gems coming in under 35 minutes. Like the sitcom, I look forward to seeing what Slightly Grumpy Steve is up to in series 4.
Review: chimpovich (Nov 23rd 2006)
Skate Folk Is Not Dead.
Discography:
"Searching For Melody" CD, 2002.
"A Beautiful Winter" CD EP, 2004.
"Steve Turner And His Bad Ideas" CD 2004.
"New Wave Punk Asshole" CD (the LP was not released) 2006.
Steve Turner & His Bad Ideas's Friend Space (Top 20)
Cya in Edinburgh amigo!! got me ticket and gearing up for the mayhem having just bought Live @ El Sol to get me in the mood. PS. Bring back 'Sonic Infusion' it's amazing. ta :)
DID YOU MOVE TO OREGON? Hello from Finland! It's a name-dropping FRENZY!!! I just released my new cd featuring Alejandro Escovedo, Mark Lanegan, Steve Berlin (los lobos), Chris and Carla from the Walkabouts, Peter Case, Scott McCaughey (YFF, REM)and Jim Roth (built to spill). CD has liner notes by Biographer Charles R. Cross (BackStreets-Springsteen...Heavier than Heaven-Cobain...Roomful of Mirrors-Hendrix...etc. Also I have finally put "Passing Thru" on my site as well for you to hear...this is the one with Eddie Vedder, Victoria Williams, and Carla Torgerson trading verses with me...it has not been availablé for a long time, and I also have it on i-tunes, etunes, amazon and rhapsody. Okay...I hope you are doing well!
The new issue of Juice Magazine - Issue 65 - the 15 Year Anniversary issue featuring MARK "RED" SCOTT at Burnside on the cover (Photo by David Hupp) is available now. www.juicemagazine.com.
JUICE MAGAZINE ISSUE 65 features:
AARON MURRAY interview by CHRISTIAN HOSOI ANDY ROY interview by JAY ADAMS CHEETAH CHROME OF THE DEAD BOYS interview by STEVE OLSON DAN TAG interview by JIM MURPHY EVAN SLATER interview by DIBI FLETCHER HANK III interview by STEVE OLSON IVORY SERRA interview by STEVE OLSON JAKE BROWN interview by DAVE DUNCAN and JIM MURPHY JAMES HEDRICK interview by JIM MURPHY JEF HARTSEL interview by JIM MURPHY LAURA THORNHILL interview by JAMES O’MAHONEY LITTLE EDDIE interview by JIM MURPHY MARK CONAHAN interview by JIM MURPHY MARK “RED” SCOTT interview by STEVE OLSON MATT HENSLEY interview by STEVE OLSON NEGATIVE APPROACH interview by FLO BRAUN PAT DUFFY interview by STEVE OLSON PETER MEL interview by DIBI FLETCHER STRETCH RIEDEL interview by DIBI FLETCHER TIM HENDRICKS interview by STEVE OLSON TIM KERR of the BIG BOYS interview by STEVE OLSON WALDO AUTRY interview by STEVE OLSON
Thanks for the add. Awesome. Still waiting on your albums to arrive in the mail. I think they just shipped yesterday. I sampled them on Amazon and thought they sounded great. I was surprised when I heard folk songs, very cool. Later.
hi, just stopping by to ask in a hope for an answer, in case if you have some time someday :D can I find your tabs or anything like that somewhere ? I love your music very much, but I cant play it by ear really good :l And I know you cant reply to all your fans so no problem if I dont get an answer ;) gs take care guys, much love !
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