UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS – Visually mindcrawling outlets

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Acid Coven, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Charles Manson, Freak Valley Festival, Get on Home, Jim Jones, K.R. Stars, Leeds Festival, Marc Morris, MC5, Mind Control, Mind Crawler, Reading Festival, Rise Above, The Stooges, Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats

“Mind Crawler” is the new single from UNCLE ACID’s acclaimed third album, “Mind Control”. Due for 7″ vinyl and digital release on August 19th, it features an exclusive b-side, “Get on Home” – a brand new recording of a song originally written and recorded by Charles Manson.

The band have also unveiled the new video for the single too, – directed by Marc Morris it is a paranoia-inducing sensory assault fully capturing sacrifice of social niceties whereby goat skulls, nuns, acid tabs and ritual sex sit alongside trash culture, exploitation movies, rolling news and grainy TV clips of Jim Jones and Charles Manson.

UNCLE ACID will also embark on a full EU & UK arena tour as main support to the legendary BLACK SABBATH in November and December 2013. Prior to the BLACK SABBATH shows, the quartet have also been confirmed to play this year’s Reading / Leeds festival.

FULL DATES:
23-Aug UK Reading Reading Festival
25-Aug UK Leeds Leeds Festival
20-Nov Finland Helsinki Hartwell Arena
22-Nov Sweden Stockholm Friends Arena
24-Nov Norway Oslo Telenor Arena
26-Nov Denmark Copenhagen Forum
28-Nov Netherlands Amsterdam Ziggo Dome
30-Nov Germany Dortmand Westfalenhalle
02-Dec France Paris Bercy
04-Dec Germany Frankfurt Festhalle
07-Dec Czech Republic Prague O2 Arena
10-Dec UK London O2 Arena
12-Dec UK Belfast Odyssey Arena
14-Dec UK Sheffield Motorpoint Arena
16-Dec UK Glasgow Hydro
18-Dec UK Manchester Arena Manchester Arena
20-Dec UK Birmingham LG Arena
22-Dec UK Birmingham National Indoor Arena

UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS’ are the very antithesis of what it is to be a rock band in the 21st century and therefore quite brilliant.

Formed in Cambridge by media-shy frontman K.R. Stars, in an era of profile building, brand-expanding and over-exposure UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS are a cult genuine phenomena: taking rock music back to its ritualistic beginnings when pagan heathens would stomp out a dirt-rhythm and howl at the moon. When music was the carnal catalyst for orgiastic midnight reckonings.

UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS at Freak Valley Festival

“Mind Control” (2013) looked across the water for inspiration, primarily early ALICE COOPER, MC5, BLUE CHEER, THE STOOGES and B-movie biker flicks. It has been critically acclaimed right across the music press board, from Kerrang! to Mojo and NME. Because UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS are many things to many people: a blues band, a metal band, a psychedelic band, a doom band. A cult.

The question of who and why and when still go largely unanswered and indeed become irrelevant when UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS plug in and play. Devotees throw themselves down at the feet. Declare allegiance to the twisted spirit sound. Offer themselves and their grandmothers for sacrifice to these devilish overlords. Because resistance, ultimately, is futile.

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UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS – Premiere New Track on Invisible Oranges and Brooklyn Vegan

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Alice Cooper, Bert Jansch, Black Sabbath, Brooklyn Vegan, Chapel Studios, Charles Manson, Decibel Magazine, Evil Love, Freak Valley Festival, Invisible Oranges, Jim Jones, Jim Spencer, Metal Blade Records, Mind Control, NRP Music, Roadburn, Robert Wyatt, SPIN, The Obelisk, The Soda Shop, The Stooges, Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats, Valley of the Dolls

UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS, one of the most talked about rock bands currently in existence, and an enigma in the international underground scene, are preparing to release their third full length album. “Mind Control” is set for release on May 14th via Metal Blade Records in North America. Within its blood soaked grooves you will hear shocking tales of bizarre desert ceremonies, religious brainwashing and drug inspired mass slaughter! Fans can order the album and listen to “Poison Apple” now at metalblade.com/uncleacid.

As we near closer to the release of “Mind Control”, the band has released another track from the album. Invisible Oranges and Brooklyn Vegan are hosting an exclusive premiere of the song “Evil Love”.  In addition Invisible Oranges has an exclusive interview with Uncle Acid.  Check out the interview and song premiere on Invisible Oranges here and the song premiere on Brooklyn Vegan here.

NPR is streaming the track “Valley of the Dolls” here.

“Mind Control” is a concept album with a theme that makes the acts and intentions of the likes of Charles Manson and Jim Jones seem like petty crimes. What makes “Mind Control” scarier than most albums is that it doesn’t seem as sinister on the surface as it really is deep down, within the core of its black acid-drenched world of pain and torture.

Imagine the original ALICE COOPER band jamming in a cell with early BLACK SABBATH and THE STOOGES, whilst sitting on murder charges and you may get a glimpse into their fuzzed up world of exploding tube amps and cymbal smashing mayhem. However, this enticing act of musical manipulation is merely the icing upon a very sick cake.

Recorded at the legendary Chapel Studios over an autumnal full moon using the finest western electrical technology, engineer Jim Spencer (BERT JANSCH, ROBERT WYATT) has captured perfectly the bands live sound of saturated fuzz, mind-bending riffs and 60′s vocal harmonies.

If youre not around in the UK and missed this years Roadburn, make sure to catch UCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS at Freak Valley Festival!

“The perfect spin for a doomed trip to the desert”

-Decibel Magazine

 

 ”An easy pick for one of the year’s best and most anticipated albums”

-The Obelisk

 

8/10

-SPIN

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THE SCAMS – Going Down And Bombing Away Essen

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Alice Cooper, Bombs Away, Casablanca, Cinderella, Daniel Kvist, Eric Brittingham, Eric Dover, Gilby Clarke, Kriss Biggs, Linus Olsson, Lost Angels, Mötley Crüe, Noise Booze And Tattoos, Opium Club Essen, Petty Boy Floyd, Pour Me One More, Queen Of Spades Photography, Ryan Roxie, Sextus, Slash's Snakepit, The Scams, Thrill Is On, Tobias Ander, Tour Finale, Troy Patrick Farrel, White Lion

While Germany is still caught in the icy grip of winter, an unseasonably warm wind from Scandinavia is on its way to the fair city of Essen – Metal meteorologists call it THE SCAMS. Storms are falling even harder with the widely dreaded hairy hurricane known as LOST ANGELS. A group of wise men and women in their forties or even fifties however don’t seem to fear the outcome this force of nature might bring. They even take their young along, maybe for some intense Rock’n’Roll education – or was it vice versa?

Bassist Kriss Biggs intonates “Thrill Is On”

The night takes an almost disastrous turn as the entrance is postponed for half an hour due to “the bands still doing their soundcheck”. If it wasn’t for the cold of late january, I couldn’t care less…as doors finally open I can hardly feel my feet anymore. Two beers, two bands and about two hours later it is all worth while again. THE SCAMS enter the rather small stage of the rather new but seemingly worn out Opium Club, downtown Essen.

The later the evening, the nuder the drummer – Tobias Ander in Essen

It comes as a surprise watching the four swedish musicians working on  proper equipment settings after the supposedly soundcheck caused the entire event to be delayed. The audience on the other hand seems to be quite shy and so the front row is scarcely visited – some four or five folks around me, but that leaves more room for enjoying myself. After a rough start, mostly due to the overall atmosphere, with the highly acclaimed title track of the current record “Bombs Away”, THE SCAMS are able to convince everybody as the striking live band they are. Little to my astonishment the room slowly clears during the set of LOST ANGELS afterwards.

Guitarist Linus Olsson – youngest & latest member of THE SCAMS

The 45-minutes set is over way too fast and leaves me wrecking my brain, how long it will take THE SCAMS to return to Germany or rather how long it will take me to see them again. Summing it up, besides the short pleasure of live entertainment, the best part of the evening happens to be the aftershow party and in the end we’re all happy campers again!

Founding member Daniel Kvist enlightened by the disco ball inferno

Setlist:

Bombs Away

Fuck Like A Priest

Heavy Load

Get Up And Move Along

Thrill Is On

Noise, Booze And Tattoos

Pour Me One More

I’m Not Alone (Got Rock’n’Roll)

Die Tonight

Killermachine

Final Night of the Tour – Time for some mischief!

The Scams Homepage

All pictures courtesy of Susan Spades / Queen Of Spades Photography

THE PLEASURE SEEKERS – Sisterhood Of Strings

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Alice Cooper, Arlene Quatro, Art Quatro, Bob Seger, Cradle, Darline Arnone, Diane Baker, Leo Fenn, Mary Lou Ball, Nancy Ball, Nancy Quatro, Patti Quatro, Sherilynn Fenn, Suzi Quatro, Ted Nugent, The Pleasure Seekers, Unzipped

The Pleasure Seekers was a 1960s-era, all-female garage rock band from Detroit, Michigan. The band morphed into Cradle, changing direction musically. They are known due in large part to the later prominence of bandmember Suzi Quatro. According to Suzi Quatro in her memoir ‘Unzipped’, the sisters searched through the dictionary for a name for their band and on coming across “hedonist” used the definition “pleasure seeker” to come up with “The Pleasure Seekers”.

Patti Quatro (born 1948, Detroit, Michigan, USA) formed The Pleasure Seekers in 1964, and they were Suzi Quatro’s first band. After a few weeks practice, Patti dared Dave Leone to give them a slot at his popular teen night club, The Hideout in Detroit. He put them on stage two weeks later, and they never looked back, becoming well known and gaining momentum in the burgeoning and exploding Detroit music community, playing concerts and teen clubs with Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Bob Seger, and others.

The original band included Suzi Quatro and Patti Quatro, Nancy Ball (drums), Mary Lou Ball (guitar), and Diane Baker, whose father was in Art Quatro’s band, on piano. Later on Arlene Quatro replaced Diane on the piano. Nan Ball played drums until late 1965 when Darline Arnone joined the band and stayed until late 1969. Arlene Quatro’s husband, Leo Fenn, managed the band.

The band had their first record out in 1964, when Suzi Quatro and her sister Patti Quatro were 15 and 17 years old, respectively, on the Hideout label. Both sides of their first single – ‘Never Thought You’d Leave Me’ b/w ‘What a Way to Die’ – have some prominence; the first is included on ‘Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 6’, while the other was featured in the cult film Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls (1988). Both songs (lyrics by Dave Leone) are included on the compilation album ‘Friday at the Hideout’, which offers a retrospective of Hideout Records, and charted regionally for the band.

In 1968, they were one of the earliest all girl rock group to be signed to a major label, Mercury Records. They released a second single, ‘Light of Love’ b/w ‘Good Kind of Hurt’, with both singles charting. The group matured into a dynamic show band and, using Detroit as home base, toured the U.S. Their show featured an entire Sgt. Pepper/Magical Mystery Tour revue, as well as a Motown sound revue, and everything in between, as well as featuring one of the earliest known light shows for their act.

In 1969, The Pleasure Seekers morphed into Cradle, changing direction musically in writing heavier original material and touring throughout the U.S. Arlene was now manager and sister Nancy Quatro had joined as vocalist and percussionist. The group toured vigorously, playing concerts and pop festivals throughout the U.S. with popular bands of the day, ending with a tour of Vietnam. In 1971, Suzi was signed by producer Mickie Most to his RAK Records label, leaving for England and solo fame as Suzi Quatro. Patti continued with sister Nancy in Cradle, then joined brother Mike’s MQ Jam Band, co-producing and recording an album, Look Deeply Into the Mirror.

The Quatro sisters have reunited for special TV and concert projects through the years, reminiscent of the early Pleasure Seekers days.

Patti currently runs Cradle Rocks Publishing with sister Nancy, and is involved in restoring the original, never released catalogue of Pleasure Seekers and Cradle music. ‘The History’, a newly remastered album of music from Cradle was released in 2010. ‘What a Way to Die’, a newly remastered album of music from The Pleasure Seekers was released in 2011.

Arlene Quatro and Leo Fenn are married and have a daughter, actress Sherilynn Fenn. Arlene Quatro left the music business, authoring a book on health and becoming involved in environmental issues.

Nancy Quatro turned to music management, forming N. Glass Management and managing the band Overscene.

In 1974, Patti Quatro joined Fanny, appearing on their ‘Rock and Roll Survivors’ album and two singles, ‘I’ve Had It’ and ‘Butter Boy’, which reached #29 nationally. Patti left Fanny in 1975. She continued to pursue studio work on several albums, musical side projects (through many years), and modeling.

Suzi Quatro became very popular in Europe, enjoying a successful and long lasting music career. She sold over 55 million records and is still active as a touring and recording artist. She also branched out as a TV actress, stage actress, radio D.J. and author. She is well known for her role as Leather Tuscadero in the popular TV show Happy Days.

Inspiration:

1960s Garage Bands

Quatro Rock