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The moment of shock, the element of surprise that is able to breathe inside the minds of those with imagination, is always such a treat to come across because most will only see the title of something without listening or reading beyond and whilst the name of the E.P. will quite rightly raise an eyebrow and even have some spluttering over their hard boiled tea, The Bordellos always have a way of turning the music on its head and coming up with a selection of songs that bite as well nurture the aural glands.

Almost within the realm of punk, The Bordellos’ latest release Gary Glitter E.P. is angry, it is wonderfully rough in the delivery, not in the way that would detract the music but in a sense of that it offers a gravelly tones, the jagged sense of anti-establishment that every so often we have to display just so that the Government doesn’t have its own way in everything they wish to poke their snout like figure into.

It is though in the E.P.’s second song, Attack Of The Killer B-Sides, that the E.P. grabs the attention, the reminiscence of old songs from a time that was perhaps more kind, more gentle but damning in the way it lost track of the songs that made up the other side, songs that are lost to eternity, that have fallen between the gaps in the groove and the fire laden pits of vinyl Hell. It is the sucker punch in that young music bands might fall into as they descend into the bland. It is in The Bordellos typical vision on life that the songs are to be seen, catchy, illuminating and full of different flavour; that they perform in a sense of outrage and musical indignation.

With the generous sense of cool that The Bordellos bring to such occasions this particular E.P. is more than able to hold its own in a world of the insufferable and those that never look beyond the headline.

Grab your Disco Pants and strut to the sound of The Bordellos, it is a moment in time that will rekindle the love of angry punk in the heart of a great popular band.

Ian D. Hall