Sounds From The Junkshop #47 - The Crocketts
“Well I was thinking, I’ll wear a rose/And in the morning, I’ll be your dog” - The Crocketts - 1939 Returning So the legend goes that some time in the mid-‘90s, beardy Gordon Gecko wannabe and alleged inspiration for the old WASP classic Chainsaw Charlie (Murders In The New Morgue) Richard Branson was looking for some new bands to sign to Virgin’s corpo-“indie” offshoot V2 and took a punt on a couple of then-unknown Welsh bands who'd both come up together in the small villages of the province. One was a power trio specialising in blue collar Springsteen indebted odes to smalltown desperation and the minutiae of rural life. They were called the Stereophonics. You might just have heard of them. The other was an ultra-deranged group of Pixies soundalikes who wrote songs about having a Satanic girlfriend and being a hot and sweaty sex slave. They were called the Crocketts. Odds are that if you don't remember the late '90s then you probably haven't heard of them. Hand on h...