The Paranoid Squirrel

The Paranoid Squirrel

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  • The Paranoid Squirrel ep 409

    This

    week I’m still in the studio, even though my gig tally almost topped last
    weeks. Up first is some classic Suicidal Tendencies then we get into brand new
    music from: Mary’s Kids, Imperial State Electric, Lester Greenoski, The
    BrokenDolls, C.J. Ramone, Sonny Vincent, Faith No More, Johnny Thunders, Santa
    Cruz, Bend Sinister, Ming City Rockers, Zen Motel with The UK Subs bringing
    things to a close.

    1 hr 1 min
  • The Paranoid Squirrel ep 408

    Welcome to the

    first “All Studio” show for a long, long time. Musically we have three tracks
    from the only bands that matter; Ramones, Motörhead and The Damned. We then go
    old school, I mean really old school
    with some speed corrected Robert Johnson. New music comes from AC/DC who have
    been in the news over the last few weeks for the
    right and sometimes wrong reasons. Then I take you to Stockholm, Sweden for a
    track from The Curse’s brand new full length offering, “World Domination”. Guy
    Bailey formerly of The Quireboys and The Peckham Cowboys has a brand new
    project on the go in the form of Thirsty that once again reunites him with
    Chris Johstone. Obviously I ply a track from the bands self-titled debut CD. Ulysses,
    who I caught live supporting The Godfathers, make their first appearance on The
    Paranoid Squirrel with a track taken from their 2013 album “Kill You Again”.
    Into cover territory with
    firstly The BossHoss who I saw opening for Motӧrhead last Saturday and then The
    Flaming Lips featuring Miley Cyrus. I kid you not. Jake Starr and The Delicious
    Fullness get things back on track with a song off their just released album “Tastes
    Good”. Modtastic! A track from Los Pepes’, debut CD “Los Pepes for Everyone” which
    has been a permanent fixture in my car of late gets you Powerpopping. Compare
    and Contrast returns with Taylor Swift versus The Supersuckers. Miley Cyrus and
    Taylor Swift on The Paranoid Squirrel……?! The show flows to an end courtesy of
    Pink Floyd.

    1 hr 5 min
  • The Paranoid Squirrel ep 407

    Arguably

    there are just three bands that matter; The Ramones, Motörhead and The Damned.
    All subsequent Rock Bands lineage can be traced back to these three. Strangely
    enough my favourite single, album and live gig are from none of the above
    bands. For only the second time in their history Motörhead and The Damned once
    again became touring partners. Motörhead were
    always the metal band punks liked and The Damned the punk band that appealed to
    metalheads, with Lemmy even joining a bassless Damned (Les Punks) for a one off
    gig at The Electric Ballroom. This lead to the aborted Motördamned project that
    saw The Sweets’ “Ballroom Blitz” and Motörhead’s “Over The Top” recorded.
    “Spend That Money” indeed. Normally the pre-Christmas Motörhead UK Tour takes
    in around half a dozen dates but this year, due to Lemmy’s health concerns,
    it’s down to just three; Manchester, Birmingham and Wembley Arena. I braved the
    £46 cost of the ticket but avoided forking out for the costly Car Park opting
    for London Transport seeing them at Wembley. I missed the beginning of opening
    act The BossHoss but was suitably impressed to go out and purchase their
    current CD “Flames Of Fame”. The Damned’s set being only 50 minutes
    meant it was a super condensed fan favourite best of. As per nothing post
    Eloise, with the band finishing up with the singular Smash It Up, no time for
    Part One on this particular occasion. The sound, for a change for The Damned was
    spot on, better than some of their own headlining shows I’ve seen. It’s been
    three years since I last saw Motörhead due to clashing gigs, a Hand-Fasting and
    Lemmy’s hematoma. Lemmy seemed very subdued,
    never moving from his mic stand and no machine gunning bass. The only thing
    that was animated was his hands and mouth. Sonically though Motörhead, as I
    hoped, ruled. The set-list, as we all know for a band that have been
    going for as long as they have is always going to be difficult, choosing what
    to put in and what to leave out. “No Iron Fist”, or “Bomber”, but then I have
    heard them a million times before. “Rock It” and “Suicide” on the other hand
    from “Another Perfect Day” and “Inferno” respectively were a nice addition. I’m
    really glad I went, three really good bands, just about money well spent.

     

    2 hr 12 min
  • The Paranoid Squirrel ep 406

    When

    two members of your band do the dirty on you and quit just before a couple of
    gigs there are two things that you can do; crawl off somewhere and feel sorry
    for yourself, saying poor old me or in the case of Pete and Christopher Coyne
    of The Godfathers get some shit hot replacements that make the former members
    look tired and redundant. They say success is the best form of revenge and
    never has that been more apt. After a couple of false starts on Halloween I
    finally managed to get to see The Godfathers live at their sold out gig at The
    Lexington in Islington. And boy was it worth the wait. Pete and Chris were
    joined by Mauro Venegas and Steve Crittall on guitar with Tim James on drums
    and to quote Pete they were “Red Hot”. All aspects of the band career were
    played with some tunes being dusted off after a long time away, obviously for
    me they were all the first time I’d heard them, but they most defiantly won’t
    be the last. Kicking the show off this week are The Kult 45s who like The
    Godfathers I’ve been trying and failing to see. Obviously for not as long as
    the aforementioned Godfathers as the said Kult 45s have only been blasting out
    their brand of Dirty, Filthy Punk ‘n’ Roll Blues since the beginning of the
    Summer, but with a reasonable stage time of 8:15 The 12 Bar beckoned. Talking
    about The 12 Bar; I also put in my two Denarius over the reshaping of Denmark
    Street and surrounding areas due to CrossRail.

    1 hr 52 min
  • The Paranoid Squirrel ep 405

    On this week’s show we have Bernie

    Tormé and The Broken Chords recorded live at The Borderline in London, although
    Bernie’s Brighton encore, recorded a week earlier, does actually finish things
    off. I will always sight two guitarists as being hugely influential. Captain
    Sensible being one, the other; Bernie Tormé. Bernie really does have a real
    unique sound and playing style, highly distinctive. When I first heard Zakk
    Wylde playing with Ozzy Osbourne I immediately thought he’d grown up listening
    to Gillan albums and the live Ozzy bootleg recordings of when Bernie was
    brought in to finish off Ozzy’s touring commitments in the States after Randy
    Rhodes’ tragic death.

    2014 has been a great year if you a

    Bernie Tormé fan. A fan funded double CD “Flowers and Dirt” which reached the
    100% mark within 24 hours finally ending at 418% and a tour, a proper full on
    Bernie Tormé Tour! Two dates were penned in for myself, The Squirrel and
    squirrel associate Arkwright; Brighton on the 22nd and London 29th
    (Unfortunately Arkwright missed the London gig as he was rehearsing with his
    own band). Two great nights, with Bernie’s sons joining him on stage in
    Brighton for a run though of “Paranoid”. In London it was the turn of a guest
    pledger to join Berne, drummer Ian Harris and bassist Chris Heilmann for a
    cover of Hendrix’s “Fire”.

    If you’re quick off the mark you can

    see Bernie at The Clundy, Newcastle tonight (1st Nov) or if Scotland
    is where you reside he’s with you on the 13th, 14th and
    15th.

    In other news I talk about clashing

    gigs; Johnny Moped versus Stonewall Noise Orchestra/Goat Leaf. Looks like the
    Mopeds will have my patronage as the doors don’t open until 9pm for S*N*O. The
    Squirrel doesn’t call me Armerella for nothing……

    1 hr 51 min
  • The Paranoid Squirrel ep 404

    As

    it seems to be the trend for October (and from what I can tell it’s going to
    continue into November, well into
    November) it’s another all live show. Nothing Scandinavian this time around
    though. First up it’s The Sensible Gray Cells, but “Hold on!” I hear you cry
    “Their tour has just been cancelled”. True, but to illustrate my frustration at
    the gigs being cancelled, all four of them, due to perceived low tickets sales,
    the added prices to the face value,
    that you don’t get back in the event of a cancellation I use one of their songs
    from “A Postcard From Britain” and thanks to modern technology make it sound
    how you would’ve heard it on the tour……The first real live band on this week’s
    show is Goat Leaf who unfortunately I only caught the last song from their Kory
    Clarke support slot. Admittedly it was a good last song. The band feature
    former Warrior Soul guitarist Johnny H and their brand of Stoner, Punk, and
    Desert Session Rock was right up my street. (I did contemplate seeing them at
    The Unicorn Thursday but due to an extremely late night the day before seeing
    Bernie Tormé down in Brighton I didn’t. Thanks M23 mega diversion for adding an
    extra 40 minutes to the journey.) Obviously Kory Clarke (Warrior Soul, Trouble,
    Mob Research, etc) is this week’s main attraction with the final date of his
    current UK Tour, well 4 Scottish dates and 2 English which makes a change. The
    gig in question was at The Islington in er…Islington to promote Kory’s new
    Cargo released CD “Payback’s A Bitch”. Kory looked tanned and relaxed but still
    giving the (Stiff) Middle Finger to those deemed to have crossed him. Old
    classics and soon to be new classics stood up well together with the band
    pretty much laying waste to all and sundry.


    1 hr 23 min
  • The Paranoid Squirrel ep 403

    More
    Scandinavian live action courtesy of Crucified Barbara and Supercharger
    recorded at The Boston Music Room Tufnell Park. This was the first time I’ve
    seen Danish Rockers Supercharger who describe themselves as “a mix of rich
    guitars, piano, Hammond organ, harmonica and heavy drums, stirred up with rough
    whiskey vocals”. No argument from me on that score. It’s been six years since I
    last saw Crucified Barbara when they rolled into town with The Backyard Babies.
    This time around they’re on a full on European Headlining Tour in support of
    their fourth album “In The Red”.
    On
    this week’s show I also talk about a solution to my iPod running out of space,
    getting out of a Parking Ticket but picking up a cracked windscreen and
    watching a former work colleague getting into it with Gordon Ramsay on T.V.

    1 hr 55 min
  • The Paranoid Squirrel ep 402

    At

    the end of the 90’s you couldn’t help but fall over Swedish Garage Rock bands,
    The Hellacopters and The Hives being the front runners but in the background
    wallowing in Cult status were The Nomads and Sator. The Nomads have been with
    us for nigh on 33 years with Sator more or less forming around the same time in
    one guise or another. Officially I think the band are celebrating their Silver
    Jubilee this year. As for The Nomads; on their 20th Anniversary Nick Royale, Handsome Dick Manitoba, Ross The Boss, Jello Biafra, Chris
    Bailey, Odd Ahlgren and Wayne Kramer joined the band on stage at the Hultsfred
    festival.
    That’s
    how important The Nomads are. The band first made it to London in November 1984
    playing The Garage on the 23rd with The Clarendon Hotel two days
    later. Sator’s debut London show, on the other hand, was a few days ago at The
    Pipeline with support coming from….You guessed it, knew it already The Nomads.
    Why it’s taken so long for Sator to reach our shores, I don’t know; but decent
    terms and condition I’m sure played a part. Amongst the Sator ranks sits one Chips
    Kiesbye whose production skills have graced the likes of
    The Hellacopters, Crucified Barbara, Bonafide and Millencolin. But Sator aren’t
    about just one man. The bands last album “Under The Radar” and sadly only merch
    on sale, came out 3 years ago so I really did feel honoured that they had graced
    us with their presence. There was also a heavy contingent of Swedes in the
    audience quite possibly outnumbering us Brits, coupled with the Pipeline being
    owned and run by a Swedish ex-pat we could, quite easily have been in
    Stockholm. Sator sight The Boys as an influence so it was great to see Boys
    guitarist Honest John Plain joining them for two songs. The Nomads seem to be
    making a yearly trip to London, let’s hope this trend rubs off on Sator.

    But before you hear The Nomads and

    Sator live at The Pipeline I play you some Paul Di’Anno from his new live album
    which on first listen I really had a downer on, but second time around I warmed
    to. Slightly

    2 hr 8 min
  • The Paranoid Squirrel ep 401

    Last

    Saturday there was a plethora of things to do if you were in London; The Jim
    Jones Revue’s final gig at the Forum with the last remaining Heartbreaker, not
    counting Richard Hell, Walter Lure in support. Ian Hunter at the Shepherds Bush
    Empire, The Black Veil Brides at Brixton Academy, The Supersuckers at the
    Islington Academy, Finntroll up at The Dome in Tufnell Park and not forgetting
    the AC/DC video shoot.

    For

    me it was always going to be the self-proclaimed “Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band
    In The World” the Supersuckers. Having not seen them for about 3 years how
    could I say no? (Also I wasn’t invited to the AC/DC shoot and had already
    purchased my Supersuckers Ticket before Walter had been added to the JJR bill.)
    As for the others…….

    The

    Supersuckers delivered, coming on to ZZ Top with covers from Depeche Mode and Thin Lizzy with Van Halen as an outro I
    felt sorry for those who weren’t in attendance. Good job they can listen to it
    right here, right now.


    1 hr 22 min
  • The Paranoid Squirrel ep 400

    On

    this, the 400 Paranoid Squirrel Rock Show, I bring you a couple of live tracks
    by new band The Kult 45s and the whole of the Electric Boys gig at The Camden
    Underworld recorded on the 26th September.

    1 hr 15 min

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