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Telephone Wires
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Released: Oct 18, 2007
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  • Genre: Garage / Punk / Rockabilly

    Location Dundee, UK

    Profile Views: 84326

    Last Login: 1/14/2010

    Member Since 8/18/2005

    Website coming soon!

    Record Label Jet Black Records/Filthy Little Angels

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    THE LEATHERETTES R.I.P .. The Leatherettes are Johnny Howl, Becca Bomb + Duncan Destruction. .. The Leatherettes began in 2005. .. The Leatherettes are here to rock your little world. .. The Leatherettes may be a figment of your imagination... .. .. ********************************************************* .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

  • Members

    .. .. .. **SIGN UP FOR EXCLUSIVE LEATHERETTES NEWS/SHOWS/GOODIES!** .. .. .. .. .. .... ....Signup for our Mailing List.... ....*.. required .. .... .. .. ....First name:.... ...... .. .. ....Last name:.... ...... .. .. ....Email ..*..:.... ...... .. .. ....City:.... ...... .. .. .. .. ...... .. .. ......Fan list management by FanBridge.com.. .... .. .. .. .. .. ..IS THIS MUSIC? REVIEW .. .. .. Jet Black And Bleached .. .. Dundee duo, Leatherettes, have been scaring and enthralling live audiences over the last year or so. .. They employ similar tools to Dirtblonde; rudimentary percussion, jagged guitars and raw vocals but Bekka's .. voice has a real sense of edginess to it. 'Asylum' builds .. into a good chorus though the production sounds a little .. subdued forcing me to turn up the volume several notches. .. 'Shoot To Thrill' is pure, unadulterated bratty punk-pop .. with its howled vocal, razor sharp guitar and basic but .. effective beats. Bekka sounds out on a limb as she yells .. 'I wanna break down barriers' before launching into the .. biting but playful chorus: .. .. You got a pistol You shoot to kill I've got a 45 I shoot to thrill. .. .. Leatherettes are truly in love with the trashier end of .. pop culture. '66 Miles' sounds like an unholy alliance of .. Suicide with guitars and T-Rex on bad drugs. ..'Mickey and Minnie' is such a wonderful, catchy .. dumb song reimagining the much loved cartoon characters .. as the stars of a contemporary version of Badlands as Bekka .. screams and squawks 'Run, run away with me little .. Mickey / Rock, rock away with me little Minnie'. .. 'Telephone Wires' sees the introduction of a bass guitar. .. Oh the sell-outs. And it clocks in at just over five minutes, .. which, in the world of the Leatherettes is akin to prog-rock. .. In reality though 'Telephone Wires' has a cool groove .. interspersed with economical bursts of guitar and a desperate, .. panicked sounding vocal. Final song, 'You Stole The Fuck' .. still reminds me obtusely of the Lounge Lizards weird take on .. "Money' with its curious rhythm track and scratchy guitar .. in the chorus, especially in the sparse .. 'You stole the fuck from me / So fuck me some more' passages. Leatherettes are… well more twisted geniuses really. .. .. Dirtblonde and Leatherettes operate in a twilight world .. where the canonical bands are not the Beatles or .. Beach Boys and their heirs but the Cramps, 60s garage punk, .. The Stooges, Pussy Galore, The Kills, mid 70s New York punk. .. An imagined place where music can offend and inspire not simply .. end up as incidental music in a mall or on football highlights. .. And for this, and their winning ways with the primitive, primeval riff .. and hook, I salute them. Turn up the treble and pass the .. amphetamine please! .. .. Andy Wood ..

  • Influences

    suicide, whitey, jesus and marychain, the kills, bo diddley, new order, alien sex fiend, the velvet underground, andy warhol, iggy and the stooges, phil spector, johnny thunders, quentin tarantino, link wray, ike and tina turner, the sonics, royal trux, p.j. harvey, davie allen & the arrows, primal scream, le tigre, bikini kill, gravy train, the clash, the rapture, lcd soundsystem, joy division, the cure, blondie, x-ray spex, the yeah yeah yeahs, john spencer blues explosion, sonic youth, lydia lunch, peaches, elastica, the cramps...

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