Showing posts with label grunge music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grunge music. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 March 2023

THE PUNGE ROCK MOVEMENT

 

A change has arrived in rock music and it's called PUNGE ROCK! Gone are the boy bands and fake X Factor acts, they are dead and buried.

Now what huge crowds of music fans have been craving and flocking to are live bands, and the crazier they are the more they are loved. There is now a massive wave of Punge bands in England where the movement started, with so many exciting new bands such as Iodine, Inertia, Paranoid Alice, The Fakers, Unified Roots, Content Provider, just too many to mention - check out the PUNGE Rock Playlist

Gneration after generation, there’s always a fresh class of kids picking up electric guitars and making an exciting racket – and new rock acts continue to fill clubs (in normal times), rise up the ranks and push the form forward. 

Much like the '90s when bands were penned ‘grunge,’ you had a group of bands that honestly didn’t sound very similar or maybe didn’t even really share the same ethos, but they all were under that umbrella. It was probably frustrating and weird for all of them to be labeled under this one thing together, but they were better off for it in the end. It became a movement.

This type of sound is finding popularity as a kind of backlash to what we’ve been fed over the last 10 years. Things move in cycles, and new rock ‘n’ roll – not alternative or metal, like a real rock ‘n’ roll sound – has been very hard to find over the last decade.




Monday, 24 June 2019

Paranoid Alice - The Alice Kennedy Tape (Live at San Alcatrez bootleg) surfaces online


A bootleg of the rock band Paranoid Alice called 'The Alice Kennedy Tape' (Live at San Alcatrez) has surfaced online resplendent in a Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds' album cover tribute. Many bands throughout the years have paid respect to this 1966 masterpiece and it's cover art, including the notorious criminal Charles Manson, who even wrote a song for the Beach Boys. 
Paranoid Alice are featured here in a different light. ''We recorded it how Nirvana did MTV Unplugged in New York. We're usually a hundred times louder so it was a curious twilight experiment''.


                                  

Friday, 17 May 2019

What’s Your Band Called, Mate? Get to know PARANOID ALICE


THE PSYCH/GRUNGE BAND ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS


 Robert Carr - Bass, Vocals

Favourite bands: Blink-182, Sum41, Anti-flag, Leftover Crack and Nirvana and I also love Jack Johnson, Colin Hay and Newton Faulkner 

Favourite movie: Currently it's Avengers: Infinity War but I also love Filth. 

First live gig: I've been going to live gigs for years and years but the first proper big gig was Blink-182 in Liverpool. I've seen them twice and loved it both times 

What I look for in a girl? Caring, compassionate, funny, driven and intelligent. I'm lucky enough to have found her 

Favourite dead musician? It has to be Kurt Cobain. Such a legend and music has been inspiring to me 

Hobbies: as a singer songwriter i enjoy music, poetry and booze. Duno if booze counts as a hobby but god knows I like a drink. And i used to be heavily into DC but I'm all about Marvel lately especially the cinematic universe.

Pets: I have a dwarf hamster called Franco, we currently have made him our band manager. 

 Fab - Guitar, Vocals

Favourite bands: Brian Jonestown Massacre, Iceage, The Doors, anything druggy.

Favourite movie: The Last Movie, it got Dennis Hopper blacklisted from Hollywood.

First live gig: The Spice Girls; I had to take my little sister when I was twelve. Posh Spice blew me a kiss.

What I look for in a girl? Intellectual and sexy.

Favourite dead musician? Syd Barrett, Lil Peep and David Bowie.

Hobbies: Visiting weird museums, film-making and practising witchcraft.

Pets: Had a snake called Snacks but my landlord stole him.

 Jack Gourley - Drums

Favourite bands: Parkway drive, Nirvana, Blink 182, Trivium, Arctic Monkeys all sorts of stuff really. 

Favourite movie: Of all time.... Jurassic park (insert theme here) 

First live gig: Love me some live gigs, the last one I went to I was lucky enough to see the prodigy before Keith flint took his own life. 

What do I look for in a girl? Yknow, someone who can match my enthusiasm for everything. 

Favourite dead musician: Has to be John Bonham for me as a drummer hearing the intro to when the levee breaks by zeppelin gives me chills 

Hobbies: Drums, drums and more drums? In all honesty though I do dabble with the music tech side of the world cant get enough, total gear head when it comes to tech, I'm also a fair carpenter, I like wood work and that sort of stuff. 

Pets: No pets, had a cat once.