PJ HARVEY, THE WHITE STRIPES, THE YEAH YEAH YEAHS, ELASTICA, SLEATER KINNEY, THE PIXIES, THE BREEDERS, SONIC YOUTH, THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, NIRVANA, LED ZEPPELIN, THE BEATLES
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WE ROCK LIKE GIRLS DON'T on tour:
"Avec We Rock Like Girls Don't on s'aventure dans le spécial. Ce duo londonien féminin guitare-batterie qui ne paie pas de mine fait dans un rock énergique qui pour autant ne laisse pas les mélodies sur le bord de la route. Grosses guitares fuzzées et batterie hypnotique, on pense aux Breeders ...ou à un Elastica sous amphét'. En tout cas, c'est la claque de la soirée ; un truc "pan dans ta gueule !" comme on aimerait en voir plus souvent." Rock'n'Roll Rebel Club, Moen, Belgium, October 2009, rockpixels.free.fr
"Thanks so much for last night.....you rocked our socks clean off!!" Craig Fury - CLUB NME July 2009
"You guys blew the roof off Notting Hill on Saturday!" Aaron from The 405 (music and art website) June 2009, RoTa@Nottinghill Arts Club
"Vas Antoniadou is a rock behemoth. An open handed demi-godess of the skins. Up front we have Ros Cairney. Yeah. In the beginning there was the riff; then there was Ros. Its irresistable. As in resistance is futile." IS THIS MUSIC MAGAZINE - Album launch@Nice'N'Sleazy, Glasgow, March 2009
"I don't think it will be long before the belief, passion and damn right rock n roll credentials of these two girls sees them playing to much bigger crowds" KOMODO ROCK - The Enterprise, Camden, March 2009
"We Rock Like Girls Don't are a welcome wall of angry noise. Screaming feedback, buzzing guitars and crashing drums demonstrate a demand to be taken seriously. Thank goodness for WRLGD. They brilliantly blew out my eardrums and made my Ladyfest" UPLIFT MAGAZINE - Ladyfest Goldsmiths, New Cross Inn, February 2009
"The mighty WRLGD have slimmed down to a duo without losing an ounce of the visceral ferocity that always made them such a compelling live act"
TOURDATES - Purple Turtle, London, December 2008
"The recordings, though great, do nothing to capture the sheer power of the live experience" TONY KIERNAN independant promoter - 13th Note, Glasgow, October 2008
"One of the few bands that blew me away in 2008 - a powerful and captivating live band" DS independant promoter - The Portland Arms, Cambridge, November 2008
"Brilliant gig, on the darker side of rock'n'roll - JAMC meets early PJ Harvey, our nights are not normally like this!" Independent promoters The Ford Squad, The Shrewsbury Arms, Stafford February 2009
WE ROCK LIKE GIRLS DON'T are a female guitar/drums duo from Glasgow and London.
Since January 2009 the pair have been playing shows around the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and Italy to increasingly fervent reviews.
Self-financed debut album HOW DID IT GET TO THIS is in the shops now on the band's own label Distort via CARGO and available for download on all major download services.
"How Did It Get To This is the kind of awesome rock record we don't hear often enough. Dirty riffs roar and screech against relentless rhythms and catchy pop choruses; think PJ Harvey and QOTSA in a bloody, pummeled-to-tiny pieces musical fist fight" 8/10
"This is rock'n'roll at its purest" 9/10 Recommended Album, THE MUSIC MAGAZINE
"They've made the album they've always threatened" ALBUM OF THE WEEK, ORGAN
"If PJ Harvey and Josh Homme had got together about a decade earlier and decided to indulge their mutual garage-punk influences this is what it may well have sounded like. A dark and edgy debut from British duo that could well turn into a very essential outfit on the garage rock circuit" ROOM THIRTEEN
"We Rock Like Girls Don't have produced a debut album that is as pugnacious as their name. They take their lead from PJ Harvey's playful, satirical 50ft Queenie yet sound deadly serious in their intent to beat guys such as Black Lips at their DIY garage punk game. Songs about dysfunctional, obsessive love or losing it to rock'n'roll pinball from the low-slung to the unhinged with great alacrity" THE SCOTSMAN
"How Did It Get To This recalls the feral ferocity of early PJ Harvey, the stark rock fire of Pixies and the insouciance of Yeah Yeah Yeahs" METRO
"Like a drunken teenager tightrope-walking the wall of a multi-story car park's upper floor, WRLGD pick semblance from cacophany and inexplicably succeed on all levels" **** SUBBACULTCHA
"Loud, bad-assed and swaggering, though certainly not lacking in melody, WRLGD have carved themselves a secure niche in back-to-basics lo-fi rock" TOURDATES
"This album growls and claws at your inner ear with decibel offensive climaxes and enough melodic sensibilities to appeal to both sexes. Batten down the hatches folks, loud women in the area" MANCHESTER MUSIC
"The first time I heard it I wanted to cut off my toes and shove them in my ears, pour lighter fluid on my speakers and throw them on top of a live hand grenade. The sound has the anarchic ferocity of the White Stripes and vintage Therapy with hints of Siouxsie And The Banshees." ROCK REALMS
"Don’t Know What Love Is’ is the first thing I’ve heard by We Rock Like Girls Don’t since the legendary sonic assault of single ‘I Just Wanna Stick My Head In The Bass Drum’. It’s got the same Grunge fury and sneering feline vocals that I loved in the first place." STOP ME IF YOU THINK YOU'VE HEARD IT BEFORE, Episode 41
“How Did It Get To This is one exciting slab of raw rock n roll that exudes pure sex. Ros and Vas manage to create a wall of sound between the two of them with pounding drums and some of the noisiest guitar sounds I’ve heard this year. “Rock ‘N’ Roll Freak” is an uppercut of a song. Like most of the songs on this album." 8/10 PUNK ROCK THEORY.COM
"We Rock Like Girls Don't have a refreshingly honest sound full of power and aggressive distortion and if you can get passed their terrible moniker you will discover some great, raw, rough around the edges, rock and roll tinged tunes bathed in fuzzy, heavy riffs, nasty, intense drums and surprisingly, some really catchy and memorable melodies, (reminiscent of PJ Harvey in her heavier moments) with vocals you can sing along to." PLANET LOUD
“Drums, feedback, noise, glitches and after ten seconds the killer riff that sets us free. The groove is found and we are off on one of the most exciting rock rollercoasters of 2009"
HUMO.BE
All tracks recorded by Mark Freegard (BREEDERS) except track 4 recorded by Head (PJ HARVEY). All tracks mixed by Mark Freegard.
All tracks mastered by Tim Young at Metropolis.
Tracks played by John Kennedy at XFM EXPOSURE, Paul Cox at ARTROCKER RADIO, Vic Galloway at BBC INTRODUCING in Scotland, Jim Gellatly NEW MUSIC podcast, Billy Sloan at RADIO CLYDE, Bruce Dickinson at 6 MUSIC and TOTAL ROCK.
VIOLENCE single reviews:
"Fuzzed up riff, savage chorus, Ladies and Gentlemen THIS is Girl Power.." THE-MAG
"Best single so far" ARTROCKER RADIO
"Rocking like the best girls do again" ORGAN
"Bold, brash and utterly unforgiving" SUBBA CULTCHA
"A brooding bastard of a cut - brutal and essential" LOSING TODAY
"Rocking hard enough for those with more extreme taste, WRLGD still appeal to the fragile indie spirits out there" THE MUSIC MAGAZINE
"Like a cross between the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, PJ Harvey and someone
using a jackhammer on some majestic outcrop of rock" NEW NOISE
"Like the bitch love child of Elastica and QOTSA" THE LINE OF BEST FIT
WE ROCK LIKE GIRLS DON'T formed when Glaswegian guitarist/vocalist Ros Cairney met Greek, London born drummer Vas Antoniadou after advertising for a Rock'n'Roll Freak in Loot.
Nine months later with bassist Jen Simpson, first demo ROCK'N'ROLL FREAK on daytime Radio 1, We Rock Like Girls Don't had found their name, their attitude and released two acclaimed singles on their own label Distort.
Ltd edition debut 7'' vinyl ROCK N ROLL FREAK/HIP TO YOU was supported by John Peel, Zane Lowe, Jo Whiley and Alan McGee on Radio 1 and follow up CD & 7" single I JUST WANNA STICK MY HEAD IN THE BASS DRUM/OUT OF CONTROL had the music press embracing the noise.
Jen left We Rock Like Girls Don't to rejoin her brother's band and Ros and Vas decided they didn't need bass after all.
We Rock Like Girls Don't have slayed audiences all round the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, supported THE KILLERS, THE CRIBS, headlined Club NME in Nottingham and Glasgow, Artrocker and Death Disco in London and rocked the X Tent at Scotland's T in the Park festival.
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Thank you so much for last night. As always you were amazing, and I'm so glad I came along. All I ask is one thing, stop hiding behind your cymbals Vas.
Take care, and good luck with the up-coming tour gigs.
Btw on DJ's bein late after the band , it happens everywhere - tho it shouldn't ! - even at the Buffalo Bar , it does annoy me as well as I'm rather fussy myself : ) sx
Hellooooooooooooooo......Did enjoy our post-gig meet up very much So sorry Ros for all the Dutch clumsiness and for not havin seen that girl sittin backwards on stage , at the time I was on 3rd row at the very left watchin u and Vas - please do not underestimate my braindamage - while during the opener I was still choosing position as I got in late , distracted by chat wiv Emily ..But hope u get back ok and see u soon again ..........!
Thanks for making the effort to come down, you went down really well and everyone loved it !!! Keep up the good work girls, catch you at a gig again soon...
Hey Ros and Vas ! Woz absolutely wicked to see you plus da new crew last nite , b4 shootin off I did need that setlist anyway to check new songs : ) Mellow-ish 'Give me everything' and most of all 'Welcome to my world' are totally ace ! ! But see you @ Rotterdamned . Psssssssst !!...Don't forget list ..sx
I'm telling all my friends that they should buy "How Did It Get to This". In the end, it's the great songs that tell the story of why this is such a great album. But let's look at some of the key standout moments that separate this *great* album from so many *good* albums. The thing that jumped into my eardrums first was the mechanically powerful, precise, pin-point drums. The drumming sounded like what it might have sounded like had John Bonham been a punk drummer. I never much got Led Zep all that much, but I was amazed at how you could hear every little mechanical swing of the bass peddle, our the pumping metal friction of the highhat. Vas takes this to a whole new level - listen to "The Power of Three, or "Queen of Heavy Metal." The next element is Ros' driving guitars. An amazing inter-twinge of rhythm power chords, coming from all parts of the neck, jacked through 70s styled big-muff shaping, are highlighted and punctuated by a very fresh sounding solo/lead melodic guitar glue. Listen to "I Just Wanna Stick My Head," or "Rock 'N' Roll Freak." Or how about the assault of the powerful guitar mix at the very start of the *ironically* anti-violence, poetic opening song, "Violence." And finally, back to the songs. The song "Photograph" is written, and crafted, and arranged, and sung so beautifully that the listener catches a glimpse into this band's soul - it may manifest as punk - but it goes deeper than that, at least that's what I imagine is in the photograph. And maybe that's a good place to end, on the vocal, both lead and background. Listen to "Don't Know What Love Is," "Pretty Dumb," and "Violence Is In the Air." I hope my friends listen, when I tell them, buy "How Did It Get to This" by We Rock Like Girls Don't - It's one of those albums that should will go into the category of "I knew them when "
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