Junkbox @ Cabaret Voltaire

armed with a vicious artillery of stompy, efficient blues-punk, complete with spiky axe-attacks and slide-guitar massacres

Article by Chris Nordeng | 16 May 2006

The sight of this upcoming London three-piece is fascinating. A front man that looks like a genetic cross between Mick Jagger and Ian Brown, a female drummer who seems to hate everything in life and whose playing reflects equal disdain, then lastly, a lead-guitarist with a narcoleptic look on his face but with fingers ripping up a fret-board more wildly than a duck's legs when being chased by a shark. Interested? Good, because Junkbox deserve it, formed in art-college in 2003, they're in town to promote their freshly delivered self-titled debut on Re-action Recordings. They also come armed with a vicious artillery of stompy, efficient blues-punk, complete with spiky axe-attacks and slide-guitar massacres that recall Bob Log III, minus the epileptic fits. 'I almost got myself killed in Wakefield!' screams vocalist Darren Van Alden half-way through the set and with such die-hard dedication, Junkbox can go far. [Chris Nordeng]

 

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