neo-rockabilly

The Slingshots have been featured on many compilations as well as their own album called 'Feels so Right' on Raucous Records last year. The Slingshots are an exciting trio from Sheffield. The mainstay of their repertoire is classic mid-fifties style rockabilly but, unlike most bands of that genre, they also cover a wide range of other territory including blues, country-boogie, and "torch ballads". They even find room for Frankie Laine style cowboy melodrama.

The Surf Rats have been touring and recording their own unique style of psychobilly since the dawn of the UK scene in the early 1980's. The band's original line-up recorded two classic "must-have" psychobilly albums for Lost Moment Records.
During the decline of the psychobilly scene in the 1990's, the original line-up continued to perform and record under different names, moving more towards a rockabilly sound.

After becoming disillusioned with their hometown of Leeds and its fame-obsessed music scene (particularly following the mainstream success of fame-chasers The Kaiser Chiefs), The Despondents formed in the summer of 2006. Taking their cues from punk bands past and present their aim is to bring us short sharp garage punk tunes that hit you like an atom bomb. And boy do they deliver. Shuddering basslines, screeching guitars, insane vocals and a drummer who makes Keith Moon seem like a choirboy! Each song is filled with its own self belief and expectation.