| Member Since | 8/2/2006 | | Band Website | thebonnevilles.net | | Band Members | 
ANDREW MC GIBBON Jr. Guitar&Vocals
CHRIS McMULLAN Drums
| | Influences | HOWLIN' WOLF, MOTORHEAD, WINE (very important), OLD AMPS AND GUITARS, DODGEY RECORDING TECHNIQUES, THE BIG LEBOWSKI, B-MOVIES, HOT RODS, HOT ROD B-MOVIES, PIN-UP GIRLS, ROBERT JOHNSON, SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS,
BO DIDDLEY, LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS, R.L. BURNSIDE, WILLIE DIXON, MUDDY WATERS, VESPAS & LAMBRETTAS, FILM NOIR, GOOD SUITS AND FIGHTIN' BOOTS, VW VANS, ROCK N ROLL CULTURE, MOD CULTURE, SURF CULTURE, (paradox, what paradox), PHOTOGRAPHY, ROCK N ROLL SCREEN PRINT POSTERS, MAKING STUFF WITH YOUR OWN HANDS | | Sounds Like |
Cluas.com, review
of Blood on the Scratchplate ’65
And so the best is saved for last folks. Both tracks from The Bonnevilles are reason enough alone for buying this album. ‘Hardtale Lurgan Blues’ opens to the sound
of smashing glass and what comes next is a bar room brawl of explosive
blues-infused filthy rock ‘n’ roll, as only The Bonnevilles can do. This tune is quite simply an animal. It’s Hawkwind’s Motorhead beating Screaming Jay Hawkins with a monkey wrench in a hundred mile an hour road-hog race. It ends as abruptly as it
begins, leaving you wanting more.
The Bonnevilles tell their ‘Hardtale Lurgan Blues', a two piece massacre of very loud trashed out slide punk blues and continue their violently ear-splitting blues on ‘Alabama Train'.
Live Review
..... a huge behemoth of a sound, unchained from the traditional
structures, and allowed to wreak havoc on eyes and ears of innocent
bystanders……
…….Andy McGibbon reduces the already ripped speakers of his vintage
AC30 to paper dust with huge amounts of swimming distortion, the guitar
groaning in agony as a result. This really has to be heard to be
believed……..
For me, "C'mon" climaxed the set, a modern Ghost Dance conjuring up the
spirits of long-dead bluesmen..Elmore James, Robert Johnston and Son
House, all taken by the Hellhound in return for a lasting legacy, and
no doubt nodding approval at this 21st century interpretation of their
vision, still true, but pushing it a little further down the
road. Andy's slide guitar slowly drags along, creating an
authentic delta sludge, the vocal calling out from another age. The
feet just won't keep still under this assault, where riff follows riff
in huge sonic waves. Just one cover, "Baby Please Don't Go",
which remarkably pales alongside the band's original material. If
you're looking for something fresh and new, this probably isn't
it. However if you don't believe that the blues can live today
and still stir visceral emotions, then be ready to be surprised by the
power of this reading of the genre.
I really can't wait to hear them again.
Eamon P. Keynes – Fastfude
| | Record Label | MOTOR SOUNDS RECORDS | | Type of Label | Indie |
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. Continue rocking, amen.
!! I had other places to be on the night of the Halt Bar show unfortunately and nowhere near as good as I heard you guys were. The album is smokin' BTW. I'll catch you guys the next time you're in town. Oh and 
