The Get Hip! Album,
put together by Mark ‘Bazza’ Barrett to celebrate the bands that have played
this Stockton-on-Tees Club, kicks off with the excellent ‘It’s Gonna Be Alright’
by The Mourning After. Great organ and guitar driven garage at its best. This
is followed by The Chessman and ‘Gonzo’ with its pumping bass line and
incessant snare pattern, great pace changes and guitar breaks.
Next up are
The Oilbirds and ‘I Will Not Be Denied’ which has an intensity that makes you
feel like you are actually in the club, in front of the stage and watching them
‘live’. ‘Shake-Shake!’ by The Girl Fridays is like a psycho-surf sound over a
12-bar pattern and a whole lot of fun.
‘King Of
Fools’ by The Jack Cades follows and is a groovy, catchy, 60s influenced number
with a nice lead break. The Milk Lizards, a surf band from the North East, then
entertain us with ‘Doc Croc’ which is an instrumental in the genre of The
Munsters theme before mellowing out for the middle-eight before rocking out
again.
North East
legends, Thee Strawberry Mynde, enter the fray to give us ‘Know No More’, a
superb organ led piece of garage rock. Great guitar and pounding bass add to
the mix of this stand-out track. Green Fuzz the give us their ‘Green Fuzz Theme’,
another pounding instrumental with a touch of feedback. Scene legends, The
Galileo 7, are then on hand to play a ‘live’ version of ‘Looking Up’ which, as
you would expect, is a super song with a great riff that moves through a very
nice chord progression and maintains a big drum sound throughout.
The See No
Evils need no introduction after their two albums on Heavy Soul! Records and
some great ‘live’ appearances. On this album we are treated to an exclusive
recording of ‘Losing Streak’, and we are not to be disappointed with this pacey
and driving number. Pure class.
‘From Spots
To Stripes’ is the contribution from Nervous Twitch, a trio from Leeds. This
takes us more towards the poppier end of the genre and is very listenable. You’ll
soon be singing ‘Do what I say, don’t do what I do’ too.
The Voo-Dooms
‘You Can’t Have Me’ is another garage instrumental with a touch of psychobilly
to it and is very accomplished with some great guitar work.
‘Lies’ is
performed ‘live’ by The Dagger Debs and is guitar driven an a 12-bar pattern
and really grooves out. Nice key change too.
Thee
Strawberry Mynde round off the album in style with the fantastic organ led
garage sound of ‘Hidden’.
This album is released on limited edition vinyl only (300 copies) on 31st March and reminds us all how much we have been missing the great club and ‘live’ nights that certain enthusiasts put on around the country for our delight. Let’s hope they can return to what they do best soon – but in the meantime, grab yourself a copy of this album before they’re all gone.
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