Sounds From The Junkshop #84 - Hoggboy
"Smashing cars don't make me feel like a priest/Paintin' windows ain't something that I need to achieve " - Hoggboy - Gonna Take A While In the early weeks of 2002, there were two British bands jostling for the position of "most likely to" in the pages of the NME as potential spearheads for UK indie's kick back against the Strokes, the White Stripes et al. One were from London and were called the Libertines. You might just have heard of them. The other hailed from Sheffield and were peddling a much more scuzzy and punked-up take on the garage rock formula and sadly never really went anywhere despite being, in this writer's opinion at least, a far superior band. They were called Hoggboy. Hoggboy were formed from the ashes of an earlier Steel City band called Seafruit who I also saw a few times back in the late '90s but it actually took until me researching this article to realise that the two were related. Suffice to say that Seafruit were ...