Reaction - Days of Eldorado

 

  When Airdrie veterans Reaction last featured on here (claiming they wanted to be your Dee Dee Ramone https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2016/05/reaction-i-wanna-be-your-dee-dee-ramone.html) I mentioned that it had taken them the best part of 40 years to release their debut album. Happily, album number 2 hasn't taken anywhere near as long. It's titled Keep It Weird, Keep It Wired and it's available from NYC label Tarbeach Records (and if you're lucky and get in quick the first 50 copies come with a free pink vinyl 7" of the song you'll find at the bottom of this update).   http://www.tarbeachmusic.com/

  Lining up with Ian Carson (vocals), John Bryson (drums), Scot Van Den Akker (bass) and Joe Whyte (guitar), the band have evolved from their punk roots and have added a few more ingredients to the mix (think Sonic Youth, Wire, early R.E.M. and a dash of power pop). They're still recognisably a punk band though, just one that's a little more interesting than most. The songs (12 of them) include opener Welcome To Rust Town which features a great turn on backing vocals by Monica Queen (who's probably best known for her appearance on Belle And Sebastian's Lazy Line Painter Jane single. There's a song named after feminist author Valerie Solanis (author of the SCUM Manifesto and the woman who in 1968 shot Andy Warhol) which also namechecks the likes of Jack Kerouac, Johnny Thunders and Mohammed Ali (I'll be playing this one on Tuesday's Just Some Punk Songs show : https://www.facebook.com/events/1913373162051166/ ).

  Dumb Dumb Dumb is a homage to legendary Scottish label Postcard Records whilst Saints Of Tamla Hill is named after a local 70's street gang. Won't Go Back to Jail is a snotty garage influenced rocker whilst the song you'll find below is co written with an old friend of the band, Pete Lacey, and reminisces about lost youth and lost weekends.

  You can get more info on the band, including details of gigs next week with Duncan Reid & The Big Heads, here : https://www.facebook.com/reaction1977/

  If you like your punk music to be intelligent and inventive, you should definitely check out Keep It Weird, Keep It Wired. This song is called Days Of Eldorado...