Detroit Social Club Following on from Nymark's Hungover Stuntmen topic I thought I'd introduce people to Detroit Social Club. Again another local band who have serious potential. Quite a different sound to most new bands out there at the moment but still quality none the less. Went to school with a couple of these lads and I'm really hoping it takes off for them!! http://www.myspace.com/detroitsocialclub http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Detroit-Social-Club/41662366880?ref=ts http://www.detroitsocialclub.net/ Top bands of 2008 - The Gen "Once a year - if we are lucky - do we receive a demo that excites us as much as Detroit Social Club" C4 Teletext "Men screaming “C’mon!” over heavy psychedelic swirls of blues riffs has been the lifeblood of rock and roll since drummers used to wear chain mail and pigeons delivered the post. 2008’s preachers are Detroit Social Club – and their congregation is everybody susceptible to hyperbole in the music industry. This band, they are purring, are: “Going to be Huge!/The Real Deal!/Fooking Proper!”." Alex Miller, NME "We got given this Cd a couple of days ago, its got a couple of tracks on it. That was Silver, we like it, and we are gonna investigate further for you..." Zane Lowe, Radio 1 (after playing Silver) "Wow, thats amazing..." Zane Lowe, Radio 1 (after playing Rivers & Rainbows) "DSC aren't from detroit, but sound like they could be. though the sextet have only been together a few months, tonight they're a bigger draw than either The Backhanded Compliments, featuring half of Milburn, or Skeletons, with ex-members of thisGIRL. Indeed, DSC's bluesy triple guitar assault threatens to blow away even The Shakespeare's tiny PA, while their finale and best song 'Sunshine People' comes on like BRMC if they'd taken extra classes at The Verve's college of bombast. Needless to say, it floored us." NME Live Review "Perhaps rather predictably, Noel Gallagher has been exclaiming Oasis's imminent seventh album, Dig Out Your Soul, as the band's best work since Definitely Maybe. However, if first single The Shock Of The Lightning is anything to go by, it's merely another set of tired lad-rock from a band that ran out of real ideas quite some time ago. Instead of deluding himself that his group are still as important as they once were, maybe Gallagher should consider passing the baton to Newcastle's Detroit Social Club, a band who harness the power of their forbears but replace the macho swagger with genuine talent. Despite only being together for under a year, the group have been snapped up by the same management company as Arctic Monkeys, and are set to release their debut EP, Rivers & Rainbows, at the end of October. Led by singer-songwriter David Burn, their sound ranges from Jack Nitzsche-inspired psychedelia, complete with rolling drums and spectral plucking, to acoustic-based singalongs. The group's strongest tracks, Sunshine People and Forever Wonderland, skilfully meld the percussive stomp of Kasabian and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with the raspy preaching of Richard Ashcroft and Iggy Pop. On this evidence, Detroit Social Club possesses a frontman with the potential to be as revered as the latter two. Step aside, Liam. ..." Metro Paper "Its exciting times as the music scene has come full circle. American bands such as MGMT are mindblowing, and the UK have some fantastic new bands - Detroit Social Club could be incredible" Tom Meighan (Kasabian) C4 teletext interview "Never has a demo landed on my desk that has stopped me in my tracks as much as Detroit Social Club. On any level - national or local, signed or unsigned - this is the some of the most authentic music I have heard for a long time. The diveristy is such that describing it is impossible, they seem to can a sound that is unique in every way, shape or form. The fact that they have produced this themselves leaves me in even more amazement." Play! "Talent shines. It is little wonder that there is so much exhilaration: finally, in Detriot Social Club, a band has emerged eager to challenge that hangover the industry has been nurturing since the demise of the Libertines; the hangover the precedes the ebullient, transcendental presence of a defining rock’n’roll band." Planet Notion "SNAP OF THE DAY: DETROIT SOCIAL CLUB Incredible dirty, bluesy rock and roll, Detroit Social Club are the sound of sweaty (probably), bearded men crunching bass and shredding guitars in, well, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Taking Mark Lanegan, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and parts of Kasabian as their influence, they've already got one complete, utterly brilliant barnstormer in 'Sunshine People', which nicks the bass line from Billy Cobham's 'Stratus' (also sampled on Massive Attack's 'Safe From Harm'), placing some potent, absorbing riffs over the top. Unsigned at present, don't be surprised if these become subject of a label bidding war in no time at all." CMU Music Network 16.06.08 "In a world where everyone aspires to be the next so and so, Detroit Social Club ooze passion, soul and meaning. You not only listen to it, you get wrapped up in every colour and shape that is being painted infront of you. I want to go and write songs again." Chronicle "Outstanding. As Detroit Social Club carry on their undoubted upward trajectory, lets hope they are allowed to keep their raw, soulful sound, which not only sticks out a mile, but entraps you into their world." High Voltage "Perhaps the most fitting description, though, is the band’s own, as they aim to evoke that feeling of 'standing on a dance floor with your best mate when a tune comes on and knowing that nothing else matters for the next three and a half minutes'." Metro.co.uk "This band crossed our path, stopped us in our tracks, nailed us to the floor, slapped our face and left us begging for more. Filled to bursting point with raw passion and soul we are certain this young act will go far." Amazingtunes "The bastard love child of Beck and BRMC"
