Photos of Scoundrels at Ronnie Scott’s, London on 16 August 2011. Taken by Tina Sheikh – www.magic-photography.co.uk
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School pals Scoundrels – the first signing to the re-launched label, Blue Horizon – are scheduled to release their self-titled debut album later this month. By their own admission, the band are heavily influenced by blues, and are at home with a record label that helped launch the careers of Blondie and Fleetwood Mac, but what can we expect from their own album?
Just Can’t See It Through opens this hotly anticipated debut and sets the bar very nicely indeed. A furious guitar riff that wouldn’t have been out of place on Franz Ferdinand’s debut back in 2004 makes...
Some bands make it easy for you. They give you a sound, tone and texturewhich often makes them easy to pigeonhole. Not Scoundrels. With different musical influences rife on their soon to be released EP Sniff It Up they are certainly no group catalogue to a particular style. You cannot fail to hear shades of a ‘Deep South’ tradition, yet it is blurred by modern day British indie rock.
Track One Just Can’t See It Through blazes you into the EP with an early Arctic Monkeys sounding guitar riff, very catchy and listenable. However, the mood instantly shifts with the next track Sniff it...
Opening the night are Huck and the Handsome Fee. Sadly, this is their last show in their current incarnation. Huck announces, “we are Huck and the Handsome Fee and this is our final gig, except we’re not and it isn’t”, which is a potentially confusing sentence, but is strangely true. The band’s second vocalist and guitarist, Tamara, couldn’t make it tonight due to illness, leaving just Huck, Bat and Tommy, who are, in fact, forming a new, as yet unnamed band. So, tonight the band play some Huck favourites, in addition to giving us a first look at a couple of songs...
