Hello blog world thing

This is the new blog from Retro Crooks. Created to keep you up to date of what poppin in our little world. it'll contain info on gigs, recordings and anything else that amuses us during the week. its gonna be spellchecks nightmare.....

I'll start by plugging the festival we're ruining tomorrow!

Southsea Fest is the crooks first fest as a band and we're excited as fuck. we're playing at the Edge of the Wedge @ about 3:30, we was on at 12 but we sucked some major dick (well Lloyd did) and low and behold we got want we want, Theres a lesson to be learnt there girls......

In non band related news i bought two new albums today. Thomas Tantrum's "Thomas Tantrum" (I do hate self titled records).

and Metallica's "Death Magnetic". The counter clerk gave me a funny look when she saw both my choices....


I was gonna buy Be Kind Rewind but i could'nt afford it.... :s

Tantrum's album is lovely, just sweet pop songs sung with a voice I want to bone. So far favorite tracks are the singles plus "what what what " and "rage against the tantrum". I will be seeing these guys sometime soon.

Metallica on the other hand is fucking brutal! they've thrown out the shit that was st anger and gone back 20 years to classic "talica"* territory. every song is over 5 mins long, in fact there is only one song below 6 mins. the first three songs combined are longer than the first futureheads album. this is good and bad......You have no idea whats going on, "is that a chorus?", theres no stucture to the songs because every song has about seven riffs.............but.............................the riffs...................oh the riffs, this is a headbangers wet dream. i'm gonna need a months worth of listens just to get to track 6.

Much love,

Tom (Tantrum)