George Maddison - Vocals/Bass
JimmyD- Guitar/Vocals
Skinny -Drums
Influences
The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Slade, Cheap Trick, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Tom Waits ................loads ..o.. fuckers!
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Live At Holidays in The Sun Festival
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The Carpettes are back with “The Carpettes”, their brand new and first States-side released album.
“This is one of those rare cases where a band gets back together and is as good, if not even better than before” (Alan Wright, Cosmik Debris).
Having started in the now magical year of 1977, The Carpettes all but invented pop-punk, debuting on the Small Wonder Records label with the classic ’77 seven inch “How About Me And You”. After a couple of albums on Beggars Banquet, the group eventually split up in 1981.
In 1996 it all started again with the band reforming and over the next few years playing at the first Holidays in the Sun punk festival touring Europe and visiting Japan on a couple of occasions., In 2002, The Carpettes released “Fair Play To ‘Em” their first album in some 2 decades, on Japanese label, Waveform Records.
“Fair Play To ‘Em” gained critical acclaim from all corners of the globe and The Carpettes suddenly found themselves with a new lease of life. Fans in droves, new and old, tuned in to the super catchy pop-punk sound that has always been the band’s trademark. Make no mistake about it, The Carpettes invented the sound that put Green Day & Co. in the charts.
A live album on Last Years Youth Records followed, recorded in Tokyo, featuring a mix of old and new songs.
In 2005 the fourth album is released on NDN Records.“The Carpettes”, named so as the band believes it perfectly captures everything they stand for, comprises 13 new self-penned songs.
Mick Mercer on the new album: “It’s funny. The Carpettes still have all the bounce and commercial verve they always did during halcyon Punk daze, but you might say that lyrically they are finally coming to terms with matters of age. Matters of dignity. As guitars crunch melodically and the rhythm hums along, George does a light snarl through ‘Don’t Throw It All Away’. Cheerful buggers. Oh, it all ends on a slightly more defiant note, but really! And you’d be wrong to think they’d changed with age, as they’ve always had a cynical view. A “Yeah, whatever, you bastard”-view on life, and that’s what?????k? still crackles through the new tracks on offer. That’s one of the reasons they’re one of my favourite bands, still.
What might strike people as a familiar style, listening to this, wasn’t actually something terribly common back then. And The Carpettes did the Punk and Pop thing better than the other UK punk bands because it was all Punk energy. They didn’t make the songs lighter or ‘jolly’ because they were a Punk band suddenly doing a poppy number. They should have been seen as a rougher Jam, if anything,
First track ‘Nothing At All’ is the stark Punky pop they’ve always done in a jaunty manner, underpinned with lyrical grit, and if a theme develops on this record it’s the repetitive nature of the lyrics, concerning disappointments with people, and new guitarist Jimmy Devlin seems to have the right touch.
It all grows and glows during ‘Taking It Bad!’ with a crisp bite, and ‘I Don’t Like You!’ is more standard punk, but done The Carpettes Way, with a sing-along structure that will throw you back to your schooldays, but also with the obligatory instant choppy chorus and frisky guitar break. It sounds like the past, but full of modern flavour, except that most bands half their age don’t have this energy on record, which is just bizarre.
‘The Way It is Today’ also has that throbby angst they do which other bands never quite matched, and it’s got another fabulous chorus. Stranger still, the drums even sound like The Carpettes used to. It’s the nature of the trio, I guess, in that when there’s a style it survives.”
Going into 2006 The Carpettes look forward to giving Europe another taste of their unique brand of “Punk-Pop” as they tour Germany and Austria with The Not Amused, Germany..s top powerpop combo!
“The Carpettes” is produced by the band themselves: George Maddison: Bass, vocals Jimmy Devlin: Guitar, vocals Jim Cosgrove: Drums
ALBUM AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
Apparently The Carpettes are featured in the new book by Alex Ogg, all about the independent labels of the late seventies-early eighties. Should be a good read.
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/book_independence
In 2009 George and Jimmy got together to record another batch of songs, three of which can be heard here.
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Cheers Jim, much appreciated. Will send you a long winded email at start of this week. Lot of Shit happened this year so not been in touch. Will explain all. Also will get your address and send you a CD. Thanx again for comments, we're all really pleased with the album. All the best Alan
Just to inform you of the release of a new book from Cherry Red Books;
'Independence Days - The Story of UK Independent Record Labels'
Independence Days cover the era's most celebrated labels including Rough Trade, Beggars Banquet/4AD, Factory, Cherry Red and Mute, and covers releases by notable acts such as The Smiths, Joy Division, The Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello, New Order, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Echo & The Bunnymen, Gary Numan, Teardrop Explodes, Nick Cave, KLF etc. There is also extensive coverage of a myriad of less familiar labels and their unique stories, revealing a fabulous, almost Shakespearean cast of characters along the way, simultaneously profiling their achievements and contributions.
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