Homer and the Springfields (Addleshaw Goddard)
Having being pushed into equal third place by all the other bands at Law Rocks 2009, our flamboyant copy-lords have had a difficult few months.
The band split immediately after the 2009 gig, citing musical similarities. "We were all dreadful", explains Basher. This left the creative quintet free to pursue five long-threatened solo projects.
Stropper crafted his critically acclaimed tribute album to Meatloaf and the Housemartins, "Bat out of Hull". Fast Eddie produced his comedy rock-opera ode to Pink Floyd and AC/DC, "Dark Side of Black". Homer devoted his time to a concept investigation of familial relationships, in a homily to Clive Dunn and the St Winifred's School Choir, " No-one quite likes Grandma or Grandad". Basher toured hard with his quadruple percussion-only quadraphonic prescient tribute to Rush and Michael Jackson, "A Farewell to King of Pop". Both copies of Fingers' masterly melding of Kraftwerk and country music, "Autobahn Dance", sold quickly.
But Law Rocks II has done the world of cover-rock an immeasurable service in diverting these ground breaking sound-sculptors away from their solo culs des sacs, back on to the highway to hell that is their musical destiny.
As Homer puts it: "You never get a second chance to create a first impression; and we're intending to do that again this year."
So once more, suspend belief, and let the band's mimic-minims, copy-crotchets and borrow-breves transport you on a one-way ticket to ecstasy and back, in a performance guaranteed to go down as a millstone in the history of rock. Let's Boogie!
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The seam of trials and tribulations runs strong through the strata of rock, and this band have been far from immune.
Only recently the lads lost Basher, their Mark II skinsman. After a recent gig he was enticed into a rock and water worshipping cult, Children of the Tap. The sect fan the flames of Boy Band hatred by opportunistically inducing them into false record deals. As Fast Eddie explains, "We didn't see anything of him after he spontaneously conned Busted".
Keen to get back to grinding the grunge, the boys have recruited the young snare-smacking explosion that is Robin "Shoeless Joe" Jack, to crack the whip in the pace department. "It's an opportunity that in my wildest dreams I never wanted," Shoeless Joe enthuses. "It's hard to get across in words how much I mean that," he amplifies.
Such wise words from one so young, and so little aware that he's just boarded the stack-smoking, hell-bound Rock Express with a first class ticket. All aboard Homer and the Springfields Mark III for the ride of his bare-footed beat-based life …..!