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PLAY THE URGES
THE URGES - "AROUND AND AROUND AGAIN"
SEE THE URGES WEBSITE
WWW.THEURGES.COM
SEE THE URGES AT NEMO
Saturday 1st October
The Burren
247 Elm Street, Davis Square
Somerville MA 02144
Phone: (617) 776-6896
Fax: (617) 776-3466
CONTACT THE URGES
THE BAND CAN BE CONTACTED VIA INFO@THEURGES.COM
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NOT SO LONG AGO WHEN RADIOHEAD SEEMED TO BE CHURNING OUT ROCK/JAZZ ALBUMS ON A WEEK BY WEEK BASIS THE URGES WERE, INSTEAD BUSY RE-TUNING THEIR COLLECTIVE LISTENING HABITS BACK TO A TIME WHEN ROCK AND ROLL WAS ESSENTIALLY HONEST JUNK. A PROPER, STRIPPED DOWN, HEAD ON, BARE BONED, NO BULLSHIT RACKET. GOOD TASTE LIKE GOOD MUSIC IS TIMELESS AND THE HEART AND ART OF ROCK AND ROLL HAS ALWAYS BEEN THIEVERY AS MUCH AS ANYTHING ELSE. SO RIGHT FROM THE START THE URGES MADE NO BONES ABOUT THEIR OBSESSIONS AND COMMITMENT. THE OBSESSIONS BEING ALL THINGS MOD, BLUE EYED SOUL AND THE USUAL LIST OF CLASSIC MID SIXTIES ROCK N ROLL. THE BEATLES, STONES, KINKS, YARDBIRDS, LOVE, MOBY GRAPE, BEEFHAERT ETC. ASWELL AS THE NOT SO USUAL, CHOCOLATE SUBWAY TANGERINE DREAMED ONE HIT WONDER GROUPS BEST HEARD ON THE NUGGETS AND PEBBLES COMPILATIONS. ALL GOOD STUFF! THE COMMITMENT WAS SIMPLE. TO INGEST AS MUCH GOOD STUFF AS POSSIBLE AND IN TURN DERIVE AND CREATE THEIR OWN VERSION OF WHAT WAS GREAT ABOUT IT. AND AS SELF RESPECTING MOD FANATICS THIS WAS ALL TO BE CARRIED OUT WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE AND NECESSARY ATTENTION PAID TO THE WEARING OF APPROPRIATE GARB. NO AN EASY FEAT TO BE SURE!
FIRST THINGS BEING FIRST THEN, AN ATTEMPT TO NAIL BLITZKRIEG BOP WAS MADE. IT SOUNDED GOOD AS DID THE OBLIGATORY STABS AT LOUIE LOUIE, TILL THE END OF THE DAY, GLORIA AND NOT FADE AWAY THAT FOLLOWED. THEIR OWN NUMBER STAY AWAY FROM ME, (FOUR CHORDS AND A SIZEABLE DOSE OF LYRICAL MALE CHAUVINISM) WAS AN EARLY HARBINGER OF WHAT THE URGES WOULD COME TO DO BEST. THE COVER VERSIONS GOT MORE AMBITIOUS. STRAY CAT BLUES, FEMME FATALE, AND WITH A FERVENT ASSAULT ON THE BACARACH/DAVID CLASSIC, LITTLE RED BOOK THE LADS OUT LOVED LOVE AND SOUNDED LIKE THEY WERE FINDING THEIR PLACE. THEY GIGGED THE USUAL HAUNTS AROUND TOWN, WITH THE ODD TRIP FURTHER A FIELD (THE CAVERN, LIVERPOOL, OXEGEN).PEOPLE WERE INTO IT, THEY DANCED, TOE TAPPED, NODDED THEIR APPROVAL. BUT THESE WERE EARLY DAYS AND THEY WERE NOT TO PASS WITHOUT SOME TIME HONORED HITCHES. BROKEN BONES, CRAP EQUIPMENT, DODGY DEMOS AND THE LOSS OF A DRUMMER TO THE DREADED PETE BEST SYNDROME.
IT WAS WITH THIS SWIFT AND PAINLESS SHUFFLE OF DRUMMERS AND BEAT METAMORPHOSIS THAT THE URGES
EMERGED SOUNDING LOUDER, HARDER AND BETTER THAN BEFORE. THEY REHEARSED THEIR LIVE SET INTO A TIGHT, RELENTLESS BARRAGE OF CLASSIC GARAGE ROCK AND INSPIRED PSYCHEDELIC RHYTHM AND BLUES, ALL BELTED OUT IN NO NONSENSE FASHION. ROSS ROOTS IT ALL ON BASS, FIXED, MELODIC AND HEAVY, LOCKED IN WITH KENNY'S DRUMS, THEY BIND EVERYTHING TOGETHER AND PROPEL THE WHOLE THING WITH A MANIC BOOM. GAR KNOCKS OFF RIFFS AND HAMMERS OUT THE BEST KIND OF RHYTHMS ON GUITAR, PRIMITIVE AND STRAIGHT TO THE POINT. GLEN PLAYS LEAD, BLAZING HIS WAY THROUGH EVERYTHING, ALL RICKENBACKER JANGLE AND WIRED INTENSITY. JIM THROWS IN WITH SOME HARD AND WILD BLUES HARP AND FRONTS IT ALL. WRAPPED AROUND THE MIC ALL THE TIME WINDING AND UNWINDING AS HE SINGS HIS TALES OF SURREPTITIOUS WOMEN AND THEIR DEVIOUS WAYS, OF LOVE AS CONFUSION AND GENERAL DISGUST AND DISSATISFACTION. ANYONE WHO SAW THEIR DYNAMITE PERFORMANCE IN SUPPORT FOR THE ZUTONS IN DECEMBER CAN TESTIFY THAT THE URGES CAN MORE THAN HOLD THEIR OWN. THE NEW TUNES KEEP COMING, TIGHTER AND STRONGER. THE TIME IS RIGHT FOR THE URGES, THEY SOUND LIKE LITTLE ELSE. AN AUTHENTIC BLAST OF ROCK AND ROLL. ENOUGH SAID FOR NOW. THE URGES WILL RELEASE '(AROUND &) AROUND AGAIN' AS A SINGLE IN EARLY MAY, PRODUCED BY PETE HOLIDAI OF THE RADIATORS.
PS: LISTENING TO THE URGES WILL NOT NECESSARILY ENLARGE YOUR PENIS, CLEAR UP YOUR ACNE, CONVERT YOU TO BUDDHISM OR TURN YOU INTO A DRUG ADDICT. IT MIGHT HOWEVER TEMPORARILY SUSPEND ANY GLOOM AND MAKE YOU WANT TO SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER.
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