Went out last night to catch a couple of Dutch bands in action just a couple o' blocks down the road at the Helling club.
First up was local band the Riots who suffered from a complete lack of recognizable tunes. Not that their Motorhead/Zeke-brand o' rock requires something like an actual "tune", but let's just say that most of their songs sound rather same-ish. Next up were Green Hornet who delivered a fine set of what one could call "fucked-up blues". Main man here is Andre Dodde who almost effortlessly switches 'tween organ, harp, guitar 'n vocals. Me, I like it best when he pounds the keys of his battered Philicordia to lay down a solid soul groove. Be sure to catch these guys whenever they appear in your neck of the woods... Finally the Spades rounded things up with a solid set, but it is telling that their main asset is the talents of hired hand Tony Slug, who still seems out of place among these closet metal fans. The good news is that the Slugster told me he has rounded up a new batch of Nitwitz who are ready to conquer Spain in June, and that the long promised new LP will be out someday soon (now there's something to look forward to!).
Walking home from the show I constructed some kinda "point" around which I was gonna write this review, but now (24 hours after the fact and sober) I have no idea what that point was, so I'm affraid this 'll have to make do...

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Hi everyone out there in Rezillos land!

Thanks for the great and supportive e-mails from you since the last newsletter we sent out at Xmas. We're completing some new recordings and we're still planning to get a compilation album of all our singles put together later this year. As soon as we have more news on this we'll mail you. Currently all's quiet on the gig front but keep watching this space! At the end of last year we asked Ross McIntyre of the Rezillos Gallery and Archive website and Martin Percival, a fan of ours who's seen many of the gigs we've done in the last 2 years in the UK, US, Norway and Spain, to work with us on developing further the official band site. We were delighted when they both agreed and the results of their efforts will be reflected on updates on the site in the coming weeks. Ross is mainly doing the technical work plus graphics and Martin's working on the content. Make sure you bookmark the site. We intend to make it THE place to go to for all of your Rezillos needs! Martin will be interviewing us soon and we'd like to get as many of the questions as possible from our fans. Anyone who wants to ask a question is very welcome and we'll be delighted to try to cover as many as we can in the interview. E-mail your questions to mail@rezillos.com