The Doomsday Rockers - a British Rockabilly outfit.
1.Proud to be 2.Yeah yeah 3.All fired up 4.Begging you baby 5.Vampire bat 6.I just wanna see my baby 7.The chair 8.Street fighting man 9.I feel such a fool over you 10.Something taboo 11.Two steps from Heaven 12.Hey watcha lookin' at 13.Violin girl 14.Scratchin' 15.It's only love
Doomsday Rockers
The Doomsday Rockers' 'The Chair' CD is their second CD on Foottapping Records. Their first CD was on Pollytone Records ('Long black jacket'). It's tough, pounding Rebel Rock'n'Roll from one of the best Teddy Boy styled bands playing on the scene. This album features fifteen stompin' rockin' tracks - fourteen originals and an Eddie Cochran cover.
"I saw you guys for the first time at Melksham the other week and we thought you were great!!!! I don't expect you to remember us but I seemed to be the only person in the room who knew the words to 'jelly bean' if that jogs any memories!!!! Last weekend I had to work on the Saturday and grabbed your cd as I was on my way out the door, because I only took one cd I played it on random & repeat for about 4 hours!!!! Of all the bands we've seen (not that we've seen a huge amount) your cd is the one that is most faithful to your sound live, it's great!" Lora
'The Chair' is among thirteen of the fifteen tracks on this CD written by The Doomsday Rockers' singer and guitarist, Colin Evans. In fact there's only one cover - the instrumental - Scratchin'. 'Proud To Be', which opens the album, is a footstomping tribute to Teds. 'Hey Watcha Looking At' and 'Vampire Bat' are typically raucous rockers but it's in the lilting ballads, 'It's Only Love' and 'I Feel Such A Fool Over You', that the band's versatility shines through. "We are not a ballad band", says bass guitarist Andy Tate, "but Colin wrote 'It's Only Love' as our take on a Buddy Holly style. I think we did it just to prove we could, but I doubt we will ever do it live." The only song on this album penned by Andy is 'Begging You Baby', an exhilerating bluesy bopper enlivened by Bob Cotton's guest appearance on double bass. The first few seconds of the track give a taster of the song in muffled tones as it would be heard reverberating from the house of a noisy neighbour. A voice pleads for the noise to be turned down. "It's a bit of self indulgence on our part", explains Andy, "but there is a story behind it all. Colin and myself have known each other since we were nippers. In fact we used to live next door. I was the first to start playing guitar around the age of eleven. We all went to the same school as Bob and Ray Cotton, who I'm sure you know as The Jets. Bob, Ray, another guy, Dave and me formed a band called BRAD. I was always playing my guitar at home - at full volume of course. There would be a banging on the wall from next door, and Colin or his parents shouting 'Shut that row up!' Hence the start of track four 'Begging You Baby' written and sung by me."
The Doomsday Rockers - a British Rockabilly outfit.