Artist description 3 Chords, 2 broken strings and 1 hell of a ruckus!

Music Style maximum kinky surf and beat music

Musical Influences 60's beat, garage rock, instrumental surf music, exotica, surfrock, surf, rock, freakbeat, 60's r & b

Similar Artists Davie Allan & the Arrows, the Kinks, the Who, Dick Dale, Man or Astroman?, the Sonics, Pretty Things, Creation, Hollies, Primitives, Sorrows, Thee Mighty Caesars

Artist History In between their other commitments as secret agents, rent collectors and waiters the Waistcoats succeeded in releasing the same kind of dross on 2 albums, a 10 inch record and several 7"-ers. The most recent release is the album "EXPLOSION!" released in january 2000 on Larsen Recordz (don't forget to mention the codeword LZ 060 when ordering).

Group Members Stringwrecker: all known stringinstruments, vocals. Talented painter, composer and arranger. Jack the mad genius: all percussioninstruments ever invented, backing vocals. Expert in foreign languages, birds. Blind Johnny Welder: all other instruments, bass, backing vocals. Big fan of Jose Feliciano and Stevie Wonder.

Instruments All instruments + everything available in your nextdoor DIY store.

Albums Stark raving MOD! Wildebeest records (2000); EXPLOSION! larsen LZ 060 (2000); Surfisticated sounds of ... - alopecia WIGCD014 (1997); Valley of the Mono-Apes EP (1996 - Alopecia); Split single with Thee Headcoats (1997 - Knobbler); She just satisfies EP (1998 - Larsen); No need to hurry EP (1998 - Larsen); Split EP with Beyond Lickin' (1998 - Teenscream); Beat party with ... 10'' larsen (1999)

Press Reviews 12" LP Explosion (Larsen, 2000): .. There's not much more to say than get this LP immediately (Trash Times #8); ... A must-have (Whole Lotta Shakin); ... The Waistcoats rule ... (Jamboree #23); ... Erstklassige Sixties-Scheibe (Banzai #7); ... categoria superior ... (Ruta 66)... Putain mais quelle frâicheur, quelle énergie, quelle entrain!... (SDZ #9); ... un groupe qui nous console d'avoir loupé les débuts des Who (Kerosene #10); ... beat, surf and garage which you can't get enough of ... (Platomania);Beat party with the Waistcoats 10" (1999, Larsen) Vi piace il 'Beat'? A me si, e molto: specialmente quando è del livello di quello contenuto trai solchi di questo minilp. Dove trovano posto una seriedi cover di "classici" del Beat/R&B, "Can't explain", "I'm crying", "Brand new cadillac", "It's gone" dei Motions, alternati ad alcuni strumentali, "Package", "Death car", per la maggior parte devoti alla "lezione" di Link Wray, ma non solo, come testimonia il groove r&b alla Artwoods di "Pickles", in apertura del lato b. Un breve, ma eccitante, "viaggio" nelle diverse sfaccettatture dei 60s, questa riuscita, "festa beat". Uno di quei dischi che vi trovate ad ascoltare continuamente, quasi senza accorgervene. Semplice, immediato e con un suono, Toe Rag studios docet, effeto 'live', pulsante e "reale". Zitti, zitti, i tre olandesi stanno diventando uno dei gruppi di punta dell' eurobeat; bravi!!Bob Rock no 6 ================================ Valley of the mono-apes EP (1996)Take the Sonics, Lyres, Headcoats, Liverpool slop and throw in Toe Rag Studios and you've got a hellofa '45. This sucker rages. ================================ Surfisticated sounds of the Waistcoats (1997)Holland's own crank out more hip-shakers - yes there are surf instros but they blow so many others away, it's kind of kids loving Stove Top instead of potatoes: no contest. Blatant (and well done) Kinks ripoff "Too Kinky" reels you in, and the rest just keeps you there. The Waistcoats keep it fun with titles "Valley of the Mono-Apes", "Run Salman Run" and "Waistcoat Wipeout". Put this on at a party and get those slobs on the dance floor!Suzy - Trash Times #5================================ 14 tracks full of loud wailin' garage trashbeat, that will make you higgle & jive around like a frog! From the Netherlands come these three young men to celebrate their own "sophisticated maximumkinky surf trash"... and hell, it's so good! ... ... A winner! BUY!================================ No need to hurry 7" (1998)R & B from the continent! These gents hail from "le deuxieme pays du rythm & beat", Hollande. On the A side "No need to hurry", they pound the beat into your head. All the basics, Stones, Pretties, Outsiders et al are in the sound. It is at once primeval and dominating. Three chords are recorded in perfect tone for the composition. The flip has a fiery instro called "Little miss JAJ" that has pounding mono drums. The final track "Cheated & Lied" is a troggy/Medway/Childish sneering stomper. My R&B pick of the week.Rich - Trash Times #5================================

Location Groningen - Netherlands

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