Album review: The Royal Beggars – Falling To New Heights.
The Royal Beggars might currently be one of those ‘best kept secrets’ of the UK underground sleaze scene, but that’s definitely set to change with their long-awaited full-length debut “Falling To New Heights”. Formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2018, and releasing their debut EP “Tales From Disgraceland” the same year, they returned two years later with the …
News: Swedish Sleaze-Mongers The Royal Beggars Launch their Debut album through Desert Rambler recordings
Swedish sleaze-rockers The Royal Beggars return in July 2023 with their long awaited debut album “Falling To New Heights”, the follow-up to three critically-acclaimed EPs, and their first full-length studio record. Sleazy, trashy, with a true old-school rock n’ roll heart reminiscent of the best of The Stones, The Dogs, Seventies Bowie, and Hanoi Rocks, but with a …
News: Personality Crisis? Rich Ragany and The Digressions ask ‘How Much Of Me Is You?’
‘No matter how much you try, sometimes the people you want to accept you just won’t,’ explains Ragany. “You can poison yourself with the elixir of their love … Get addicted to the turmoil … This is about, in sound and lyrics, letting go and tearing away. Now doesn’t that feel better? – “How much …
Album Review: The Balladmongrels – Trouble
The Balladmongrels is a raucous new band featuring Dogs D’Amour frontman Tyla J. Pallas and Northern Irish singer-songwriter Matty James Cassidy. And with Trouble, released this week, they launch themselves firmly into rock n’ roll land with ten songs of dirty, sleazy, scuzzy raucous rock n’ roll. Yeah, it’s Dogs-y, but it’s Dogs-y in every …
News: UK Punk Rock leaders Desperate Measures return with new single ‘Back To The Rats’
New Zealand born, London based rockers Desperate Measures return on May 12th with a banging brand-new single titled ‘Back To The Rats’. Featuring a blazing duel vocal from frontman Eugene Butcher and guitarist Gaff, the song gets to the root of the bands tight, yet chaotic maelstrom of urgent rock n’ roll and hits hard and fast. “It’s …
Album Review: Trading Aces – ‘Rock n’ Roll Homicide’
Ok, firstly – full disclosure. I’ve worked with Frank and Dennis from Trading Aces on a project called Antifashion, and with Dennis also with The City Kids, and both of them – aside from being lovely people – are two of the hardest working musicians I know. I mention this because, well, yeah, bias, but …
Album Review: The Hip Priests – ‘Roden House Blues’
Thirty singles, four albums, two compilations, and three EPs across a sixteen-year career, a red-hot live show with scene luminaries such as New Bomb Turks, Dwarves, and The Hellacopters, and none other than Eddie Spaghetti of ‘Greatest Rock n’ Roll Band In The World’ Supersuckers proclaiming them ‘The Finest Rock n’ Roll Band In The …
Album Review: Rich Ragany and the Digressions – What We Do (To Not Let Go).
The new album from the UK’s most gregarious rock stars is due to be released 3rd March via a freshly signed deal with Barrel and Squidger Records. When ex-Role Models frontman and songwriter Rich Ragany and the ramshackle crew known as The Digressions released ‘Beyond Nostalgia and Heartbreak‘ at the height of the pandemic in …
Album Review: The City Kids – Filth
To say that The City Kids have had a good couple of years is taking understatement to the very extreme; their first album – a lock-down project recorded before half the band had even been in a room together, and certainly before a gig had been played – was something pretty special, followed up for …
News: Oh My God! It’s the church out on tour in support of ‘Revelations’ EP
Celebrating the release of their ‘Revelations’ EP and recent single ‘Kiss My Apocalypse’, the notoriously uproarious funk’n’roll misfits are hitting stages across the UK in a string of rescheduled dates to support the release of second EP ‘Revelations’ on 15th April. The celestial all-singing, all-dancing act consists of the Hail Marys choir and their band The Missionary Position, …