The Boozehounds
| The Boozehounds | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Cologne , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Psychobilly |
| founding | 2001, 2010 |
| resolution | 2006 |
| Founding members | |
| Stefan "Stevo" Mikus | |
| Puck Lensing | |
| Tommo Stürtz | |
The Boozehounds are a German psychobilly band from Cologne .
history
The band was founded by Puck Lensing , Tommo Stürtz and Stevo Mikus in connection with the recording of the song Victim of My Savage Heart in winter 2000/2001 .
Many national and international (Spain, Finland, France, Switzerland, Benelux) concerts followed. The band took two years and then released their debut album Evil Deluxe in 2003 via Crazy Love Records. In 2004 the second album Tales of Blood was released . After the third album Bottle Up and Go (2006) the band broke up. The band has existed again since 2010 and plays live sporadically.
Members of the Boozehounds worked alongside and / or after the Boozehounds at Lunatics, Tripods, Sewer Rats , Frantic Flintstones , Killer Racoon Fish, Be a Genius, The Make, Offenders, Pie-O-My, AC & The Shakes.
Some of the lyrics on the albums Evil Deluxe (2002) and Tales of Blood (2004) come from the horror and fantasy author Michael Schreckenberg .
style
Boozehounds play old school psychobilly, in the style of bands like Nekromantix and Batmobile . Further musical influences can be found in horror rock and country . The music is much more text-heavy than other bands in this genre.
Discography
Albums
- 2002: Evil Deluxe (CD, Crazy Love Records)
- 2004: Tales of Blood (CD, Crazy Love Records)
- 2006: Bottle Up and Go (CD, Red 5 Records)
EPs
- 2001: Victim of My Savage Heart (Split 7 ", Dynamite)
- 2005: Here We Go (7 ", Red 5 Records)
Contributions to compilations (selection)
- 2002: Crazy Love Vol. 3 (Crazy Love Records)
- 2004: Crazy Love Vol. 5 (Crazy Love Records)
- 2006: Go Cat Go; A Tribute to the Stray Cats (Baseline, Japan only)
- 2006: No Boom Boom Music (Dissect Records)
- 2007: Welcome to Circus Punk-A-Billy (Wolverine)
- 2007: Muh to the Muh; A Tribut to the Frantic Flintstones (Red 5 Records)
DVDs
- Live in Calella
- Live in the Metrepool
- The Story of Psychobillies (guest appearance)
Web links
- The Boozehounds at Facebook
- The Boozehounds at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ BOOZEHOUNDS: Budweiser, Guinness & Tequila . In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 51 (June / July / August), 2003 ( ox-fanzine.de ).
- ↑ horror mountain listener: The Boozehounds. schreckbergschritten, accessed on May 5, 2015 .
- ↑ The Boozehounds on Facebook
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Robert Noy: BOOZEHOUNDS: Evil Deluxe CD . In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 51 (June / July / August), 2003 ( ox-fanzine.de ).
- ↑ Robert Noy: BOOZEHOUNDS: Tales of Blood CD . In: Ox-Fanzine . No. 57 , November 2004 ( ox-fanzine.de ).
