But some psycho purists deny the Reverend membership in their club, ignoring his song 'Psychobilly Freakout' and the word 'psycho' that's written across his band's string bass. His Texas band tours frequently and draws reasonably large crowds (when in Washington, the Reverend plays the 9:30 club). Check out Denmark's Nekromantix or England's Jack and the Rippers.Ī few psycho acts, most notably the Reverend Horton Heat, have broken out of the psycho subculture. Most psycho songs have creepy titles: Hot Boogie Chillin's 'I Wanna Hear You Scream,' for example, or Demented Are Go's 'Who Put Grandma Under the Stairs?' Some psycho bands have creepy names, too. He ran back to the classroom, 'I'll get you all,' he said/ The teacher tried to stop him, but he sliced off half his head/ He butchered all his classmates and just to make his day/ He smeared blood on the blackboard saying 'Charlie rules okay!' Its lyrics are about a chain-saw-toting 12-year-old who escapes discipline by killing everyone. 'Charlie' by the Sharks, which also played at the Big Rumble, is a classic of the psychobilly genre: The song is characterized by cheerful, familiar chord progressions and walking bass. The official band T-shirts for Wales's Pretty Grim have an image of Mrs. The dark comedy of an earlier era comes back to life in psychobilly, a genre whose followers worship 'The Munsters.' Sheffield's Blue Devils do a cover version of the old television show's theme song. They wore alien masks and studded leather G-strings. The most popular band that played at the event was the Klingonz, a psychobilly quartet whose members seemed to have forgotten their pants. Psychos tend to be a very good-natured (albeit drunk). It's a sort of bopping mosh that makes use of limp arms and a writhing torso - more of a friendly sparring than a conscious effort to annihilate one's neighbors. And as always, the stiff wedges of dyed psychobilly hair - called 'quiffs' - threatened to poke somebody's eye out. When the music started, the arms started flying and the hips started shaking. And if you can't find a good girl, find a good boy and make him bad.' 'If you can't, find a good girl and make her bad.

'Go find a bad girl and do bad things with her,' Blue Devils singer Phil Ross told the crowd during his band's set. They came to see the bands, drink lots of lager and get tattooed.

The women wore leopard prints the men wore letter jackets. Most of the psychos were in their twenties and thirties. Last month legions of psychos descended on a trailer park in Great Yarmouth, England, for the 11th Annual Big Rumble, a 20-band event that transformed the Vauxhall Holiday Park into a punky retro party. Take an average rockabilly song about falling in love, muss up the sound with distortion and growling vocals, and add a verse about how that same girlfriend happens to be undead. Lemon Drink, flinch.A rare breed of rockers, psychos listen to music they call psychobilly, a distorted version of '50s rockabilly that is a little more evil - and a lot funnier.Scott Bamford on Slim Jim Phantom Trio & The Hurricanes – Live in Mono.The Filthy Tongues The Ghost of Rab McVieĬategories Categories Things Thegingerquiff likesĪlbum/Single Review Anxiety Anxiety Books/Writing Country Cundeez Depression Feature Folk Gig Gig preview Gig reviews Gigs in Glasgow Heavy Drapes Indie Interview Interview Joe Whyte Last Night From Glasgow Live review Meditation Mental Health Mental Health Mindfulness Music Music Feature Pop punk post punk Post Punk Post punk Psychobilly Punk Punk Reaction Review Rockabilly Scottish Punk Scottish Punk Shoegaze Singles Round Up Tarbeach NYC Tarbeach Records Uncategorized Writing Writing Recent Comments.Rats From a Sinking Ship We Are Heathen.

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