Sounds From The Junkshop #111 - Crash Kelly
"Gimme joy, gimme action, gimme electric satisfaction!" - Crash Kelly - Ride The Wire Believe it or not, ladies and gentlemen, there was a time way way back when the idea of retro rock revivalists didn't make me roll my eyes to the heavens and mutter something about having some ideas of your own. I'm prepared to admit that maybe it was because of being a bit younger when my ears were still hearing things for the first thousand times and the fog of middle aged cynicism hadn't quite yet bitten me although I prefer to think that the bands of this genre we had back then were just a bit...well, better really. Case in point - Crash Kelly. Another group who emerged from the early noughties Canadian rock scene that also spawned the likes of Robin Black and the IRS , Danko Jones and Crystal Pistol, they were a group of four lads who'd quite clearly grown up idolising Marc Bolan and Phil Lynott but were smart enough to give those sounds an early 21st century nip an...