Eat Yuppies and Dance

Description

OH! GUNQUIT are a London-based rumble-bop trash freak-a-billy five-piece that formed in 2011 after neighbours Tina Swasey and Simon Wild met each other while frequenting a North London vinyl-only sweaty cellar club DJ night. After an energetic pogo competition they decided to create a group blending their love of wild garage punk, exotica, raw rhythmnblues and surf-trash. They have played shows, festivals and events in the UK and around Europe alongside acts such as Black Lips producer King Khan with his Shrines, Fat White Family, Public Service Broadcasting, Andrew Weatherall, Keb Darge, the director of Danny Boyles Shuffle Film Festivals, and survived a crazed impromptu stage invasion by eccentric 80s pop-punk prince Adam Ant. The group have also done two live sessions for Londons only independent art radio station, Resonance FM, and the singles have had frequent airings on BBC Radio 6 (Steve Lamacq, Gideon Coe, Lauren Laverne) Huey Morgans BBC Radio 2 show and XFM Exposure with John Kennedy. To date, they have put out two limited edition selfreleased seven inch vinyl singles distributed through Rough Trade, the second being single of the week in Artrocker magazine, and also have a track featured on a Japanese compilation of garage rocknroll with the all-girl Woo Hoo hit-makers The 5,6,7,8s. Last December saw the release of a brand new single Sinkhole backed with the instrumental Stampede via new One Little Indian imprint Winwin Records. says, They are a sight to behold with bags of personality and an endearing amount of humour. Their music and performances appear effortless, with lyrics that are macabre and kitsch and a live performance that is better than any art-punks out there at the moment. This is retro pop at its killer best. You know that this is a band that, in years to come, people will be arguing over which cramped Camden basement they saw them in first. Live on stage, the fiery, exotic sound on Eat Yuppies And Dance has been described as a cross between The Cramps and The B-52s, a unique blizzard of horns, spirited howls, buzzsaw guitars, hula hoops and fun, riotous rocknroll abandon, a crazy road trip of B-movies, freak shows, twisted carnivals, and adventuring.