As much as I love punk rock and old school metal, I have a lot of love in my heart for good old fashioned garage rock. And one of my favorite new garage rock bands is The Creeping Ivies. The band’s last release “Rock N Roll Party EP” was one hell of a party! And the party has been extended with their new 3 song EP “Ghost Train”, out June 1st.
This amazing duo from Scotland play rock n soul music that’ll have you shaking your booty like there’s no tomorrow. Singer/guitarist Becca Bomb and drummer Duncan Destruction are at their all time best on “Don’t Cry”. It’s just got such a funky 60’s feel to it that it’s hard not to imagine this tune blaring out of a sweaty night club in Detroit some 40 years ago. The title track is another feast for the ears. Becca sings lyrics about traveling on a supernatural train to hell. AWESOME! I absolutely love this band! “Chicken Voodoo Blues” is another sonic blast of energy with Becca making the promise that she will “fight for rock n roll!” Keep fighting the good fight girl! We have your back!
If garage rock is your thing and wanna hear some great new music by a great new band I highly suggest you hit The Creeping Ivies up. You can stream the new EP at the groups Bandcamp page now. It’s a must have if you still like it raw and in your face. I would love to get the band over to the states at some point for some shows. So show some love for this power duo and lets make that a reality.4 ½ / 5 starspublished on http://critical-mass-music.blogspot.co.uk/
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GHOST TRAIN EP OUT TODAY! DOWNLOAD FOR FREE NOW! xx
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Record Review - The Creeping Ivies
The Creeping Ivies
Ghost Train EP
The Scottish garage rock duo are back with a follow up to their debut EP ‘Rock N Roll Party’, which offers more gritty psychotic stompers in the same vein between The White Stripes, The Cramps, and The Buff Medways were they fronted by a banshee.
Said banshee, Becca Bomb, sounds like she grew up loitering the streets of Detroit with Suzi Quatro circa The Pleasure Seekers living on a diet of Fifties B-Movies and fuzzed-out eighties garage punk nastiness; as she growls her way through opener ‘Ghost Train’, grinding her guitar as Duncan Destruction, the sharp-suited Frankenstein bashes away moronically on the skins.
Second track and highlight of the record is ‘Don’t Cry’, a mean stomper of maniacal lust, which crosses between early Yeah Yeah Yeah’s with more garage-blues muscle, with Miss Bomb screeching:“Don’t you die, die, die in my bed…!” her voice drifting between an American punk drawl and broad Scottish lilt. Final track ‘Chicken Voodoo Blues’ loses all grip on common sense and is a full on nonsensical assault on your ears with pounding drums, scuzzy riffs, and bratty vocals. Raw, wild, so climb aboard, please. Next stop voodoo-ville!
Yvonne McKeown
Happening Magazine
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Covering The Cramps - Teenage Werewolf. Becca breaks a string at the end
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Happy Thursday. (I seen you BUGGIN’ AROUND)
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photo by Michael Lambert
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The Creeping Ivies-Ghost Train EP.
I’ve said it so many many times before- if a piece of music doesn’t scare me then I may not enjoy it. I have to find a terrifying element to it. I’m not entirely sure why. Horror films don’t scare me, I usually have a delightful laughing fit at a really bad part of the time. “OH LOOK THERE’S A LOAD OF BLOOD!!!” Cue me getting the giggles.
A few weeks ago I wrote some words about a band that, with first listen scared me and stole my heart. The Creeping Ivies come from Scotland. Yes, I class everything from Scotland (in a music sense) to be amazing. This all stems from my obsession with Garbage and The Jesus And Mary Chain. I think my logic is perfectly justified right here.
The Creeping Ivies have an EP coming out 1st June. It’s called Ghost Train. It is eerie, dark and wonderfully ghoulish. It will shake up your bones and mind-fuck you in such a glorious way. It feels like a woman who has committed a murder. It is menacing and charming. It is everything I love about music.
I have only one bad thing to say about this EP ; three tracks just aren’t enough. I’ll have this on repeat for as long as I can stay awake in order to feel like I’ve heard a full record. I don’t mind. I could listen to Duncan and Becca all day, every day. I’ll let you in on something, I do it anyway.
Alright, so..Ghost Train is coming out on Jet Black Records and was recorded in a desolate space in Glasgow (okay it may not have been, but it was recorded in Glasgow..I’m just making assumptions for dramatic effect.)
The Creeping Ivies are influenced by two bands that I adore, the Ramones and The Cramps. They have the creepy vibe of The Cramps and the short Punk driven tracks much like the Ramones. Fast, furious and fucking incredible. The fury and vibrations in Becca’s voice makes you want to dance like Debbie Harry in the video to Atomic by Blondie. Shaking on the spot, jolting your limbs in an insane manner.
If you’re looking for something to turn your world upside down, for the better. Or if you constantly think “What Would John Peel Do?” then give yourself up to The Creeping Ivies. If John Peel was still alive, and my goodness I wish he were..The Creeping Ivies probably would’ve done a Peel session by now. Sadly, they never will but it is bands like these that keep everything John Peel dedicated his life to alive.
Check them out and let yourself be freaked out to the core!
Published on http://jukebox86.wordpress.com/
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Ghost Train Review
Music Reviews: The Creeping Ivies - “Ghost Train EP”
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11 days until you can download GHOST TRAIN EP FOR FREE!!
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Shake your shoes to the CHICKEN VOODOO BLUES!
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Artwork for back of CD insert! By http://idonmine.wordpress.com/
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GHOST TRAIN EP Now available to strream!!
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GHOST TRAIN EP out June 1st!! Streaming will be from TOMORROW! Hold on tight! Artwork by the amazingly talented http://idonmine.wordpress.com/
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Photos by Jamie Feechan @ Radio Transmission debut night 4/05/12
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