Retro Revival Club Sat Dec 5th w/ THE REVELLIONS & THE PACIFICS & THE PULPIT €3 (1 Viewer)

[Primitive]

Sat Dec 5th Retro Revival Club @ Shebeen Chic Dublin THE REVELLIONS & THE PACIFICS (Debut Show) + THE PULPIT & Dee Jay Kev (Recession Club). 9.00pm til Close. ADM: €3

THE REVELLIONS: The Revellions make a racket - sure nuff. It's all 100mph, face stretchin', howlin' rock 'n' roll. They've made a record that has song titles like 'Ain't No Fool', 'Telling Lies' and 'Down On Your Luck'... like any good garage band, they've been shat on, spat at, rejected by a gal and generally become disaffected by the entire world, channelled through fuzz geetar and call and response vox. See, 99% of garage bands can be easily categorised into one of three slots. You've got the big percentage of dross and the rest is pretty evenly split between wantin' to sound like The Seeds or soundin' like The Mummies. That 1%? They're usually unclassifiable and really special. The Revellions have definitely been taking notes from The Seeds... there's no question of that... as well as taking that darkly comic minor key thing that The Cramps had. Piano wire tense and kinda fucked up.

"They combine the gut wrenchingly raw sound of a garage band in heat with a smooth heroin surf atmosphere" Mojo

"The Revellions are actually a bit of a revelation.While we've all heard the three chord buzzsaw riffs and swirling organs before, the band achieves the unthinkable by making it all seem fresh and new" Hot Press

"This abrasive and primitive collection of raw punk rifferama and wild organ playing is a highly promising debut that knows it's strengths and doesn't outstay it's welcome" The Irish Daily Star

http://www.myspace.com/therevellions

THE PACIFICS: Retro Revival club is proud to have the debut performance from Nick Wrays new 6Ts Rhythm & Beat combo “The Pacifics”. A hybrid of The Mighty Atomics & The Bloody Shanks they play rock’n’roll of the 6Ts british beat variety via The Beatles Hamburg recordings.

http://www.myspace.com/pacificsdublin

THE PULPIT: Garage/Surf 3 piece from Dublin

http://www.myspace.com/thepulpit

 

[LUKAS]

Sounds good. Haven't seen The Pulpit in ages.

 

[Primitive]

We'll have PJ from the infamous (Dirty Water Club London) joining us for this gig for a spot of Dee-Jaying. Should be a good night.

coming soon: Moutpiece, Len Price 3 (UK), The Mighty Atomics, Skazz.......

 

[BigDan]

looks good, looking forward to seeing moutpiece in the shebeen

 

[Primitive]

Tomorrow night. Hope to see some of you there.

Upcoming shows:

Sat Jan 2nd
Spook Lee & The Ghost Radio (Cork) http://www.myspace.com/snookslee
w/ Fade Street Bums + more TBC
ADM 3 Euro

Sat Feb 6th
Len Price 3 (UK) http://www.myspace.com/thelenprice3
w/ Moutpiece & The Pacifics
ADM: 4 Euro

 

[LUKAS]

I'll be sure to take it easy tonight, so I can get too this.

 

[Primitive]

Big Thanks to everyone who came to the Retro Revival Club on Sat night & made the night such a great success, much appreciated.

 

[LUKAS]

Aye, it was good. The Pulpit were rockin as always.
The Pacifics were pretty good too, only playin covers though, why were they on first? Usually have cover bands playing first.

Unfortunately, I had to leave and missed the last band Good gig all round, fuckin roastin in that place though.

Lookin forward to the Moutpiece gig now!

 

[GO]

I heard this was a fucking ninja gig.I unfortunatly couldnt make it.I will however make it to The Len Price 3!Can't fucking wait!!

 

[Primitive]

The Pacifics were pretty good too, only playin covers though, why were they on first? Usually have cover bands playing first.

The Pacifics are basing their sound & image around the early 6ts Beat bands. Their setlist on Sat night would have been very similar to the setlist The Beatles would have played in Hamburg during there early years, basic covers of standard rock'n'roll tunes by the likes of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis. As far as i'm aware the whole idea of the band is to try & capture the early Beat band influences which would only be covers i'm afraid.

Unfortunately when you have 3 quality bands playing the one gig someone has to go on first & i picked The Pulpit. They'll get a better support slot next time though.

Thanks for coming down.