The Crunch play London 100 Club on April 9th & confirm Rebellion festival appearance for August
THE CRUNCH All-star power-pop rockers confirm headline date at London’s 100 Club in April and Rebellion Festival appearance in August, following rave reviews for debut album ‘Busy Making Noise’
All-star power pop rock act The Crunch have announced their first UK live dates for 2014. Already rapidly generating a buzz, after playing just a handful of intense, intimate club shows last year, the quartet attracted a chorus of press praise for debut album ‘Busy Making Noise’, released on Legal Records in October.
Now ready to move things up a gear, the band – comprising drummer Terry Chimes (The Clash), guitarist Mick Geggus (Cockney Rejects), frontman Sulo Karlsson (Diamond Dogs), and bassist Dave Tregunna (Sham 69 / Lords of the New Church) – have confirmed two major live shows. Appropriately, given the class of ’77 royalty in The Crunch’s ranks, they’ll be taking the stage at a couple British punk institutions – with a headline gig at London’s legendary 100 Club set for April 9th, and an appearance at Blackpool punks’ paradise Rebellion Festival confirmed for August. Details are;
Weds 9th April – LONDON, 100 Club
With The DeRellas.
£10 adv. / £12 otd. Tickets available at www.wegottickets.comSat 9th August – BLACKPOOL, Rebellion Festival
With Killing Joke, Stiff Little Fingers, NOFX & many more
Info and tickets available at www.rebellionfestivals.com
2014 will also see the UK publication of frontman Sulo’s book with Swedish journalist Peter Karlsson, ‘Keep Yourself Alive’, which acted as a catalyst to The Crunch’s spontaneous formation. An anthology of interviews with 70s rock and punk stars about their lives today, ‘Keep Yourself Alive’ was first published in Sweden in 2012, when several of its subjects joined an impromptu jam session at the Stockholm launch party, sowing the seeds for what would become The Crunch. As well as featuring Sulo’s bandmates, the book includes interviews with luminaries like Wilko Johnson and New Model Army’s Justin Sullivan, and the English edition will come with an expanded CD of new recordings from each of the artists featured. A publication date and further details are due to be announced soon.
Select album review quotes: –
“the piano ballad moment of ‘Yesterday’s Boys And Girls’ is genuinely lovely. Sulo’s voice has an enviable jaded grit and Geggus packs a fantastic guitar solo to boot. ‘Down By The Border’ and ‘Looking For A Blaze’ have INXS and The Outfield eighties vibes, which then move seamlessly into the raging, Dead Boys tinged ‘Gangster Radio’ … It’s much more than a super group nostalgia fest, this debut from four old hats is non-stop great riffs awakening your inner punk. 4/5” – Finn D’Albert, Artrocker magazine, November 2013
“‘Busy Making Noise’ is a collection of party punk anthems and brooding ballads, played with guts, flair and palpable pleasure… The title track and ‘Street Flavour’ are short, sharp declarations of where they’re from and where they’re going. Karlsson puts on his best Joe Strummer voice for ‘Down By The Border’, with a great hook that’s matched by the defiant ‘Gangster Radio’. ‘Yesterday’s Boys And Girls’ and ‘A Little Bit of Grace’ are the best of the ballads, but there are no duds. 8/10” – Hugh Fielder, Classic Rock magazine, December 2013
“The anti-commercial ‘Gangster Radio’ anthem, and ‘London Calling’ era beats of ‘Down By The Border’ shine bright from the album, along with the beautiful ‘A Little Bit Of Grace’ featuring Swedish singer Idde Schultz … Sulo is declaring “there is a burning fire deep inside of me” in the closing ‘Runaway Son’ – there’s no doubt about that, and while all of them have achieved so much in their earlier bands, it’s great seeing legends uniting and clearly having a brilliant time. Overall, the whole of ‘Busy Making Noise’ is as uplifting as the first day of Spring. 8/10” – Jyrki ‘Spider’ Hämäläinen, Vive le Rock magazine, November 2013
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