Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee I remember the days when you could nip down t’Th’Owd Brown Cow in Oswaldtwistle and catch quality acts such as Tony ‘Shades’ Valance (National DJ), Wild Walt Brown (Comedian Extraordinaire), or Homer Noodelman (International Entertainer). Of course they don’t make cabaret acts like they used to. Pub rock just doesn’t cut it anymore.
There is nowt wrong with cabaret and pub rock, nowt at all. There are thousands of bands up and down the UK topping up their salaries by joyfully playing to audiences in Working Men’s Clubs, the crammed back-rooms of sweaty public houses, and Brewer’s Fayre establishments (well maybe not).
Anyway, imagine my surprise when I played this little demo from
Anglo-Euro-Rockers DEUCE, and out comes what I percieve to be a shot of pure back-room rocktasticness. Class. Everything is there, a mixture of influence from every jukebox in every pub in the land, and a bit of incongruous ragga for kicks.
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Here we have a Red Hot Chilli Peppers/Incubus/Maroon5 tribute band, which your average Joe Bloggs in your average ‘Flag & Chicken’ is going to think is really really good - mainly cause his CD pile comprises a load of Guns'n'Roses albums and his girlfriend’s Robbie Williams collection.
Although this band couldn’t possibly top ‘Sheeba – International Belly, Tassle, and Snake Dancer’ (Chelmsford, Essex), and I don’t think they would be taken all that seriously outside the pub circuit, I bet that they’d be good fun to catch on a Friday night in your local after work.
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