The Broncats - Psychosoma

Broncats CD coverThe Broncats - Spain's top psychobilly band.
 
1.Brown rat city 2.Dirty generation 3.Cemetery car 4.Psychosoma 5.Two men in my head 6.These boots are made for stompin' 7.Perdonavidas 8.High 'n' dry 9.Roadhouse blues 10.Pretty vacant 11.One step beyond 12.Please don't leave me 13.These boots are made for stompin' 14.Cain rose up 15.Dirty generation 16.High 'n' dry 17.Cemetery car 18.Please don't leave me 19.The body shop 20.You?!?! 21.One step beyond 22.Barna's cryin' 23.Brown rat city 24.Pretty vacant 25.Roadhouse blues 26.Inspector 27.Really like girls

The Broncats

The Broncats is a legendary Spanish psychobilly band from the early 1990's. The band started in 1992 from the break up of a guy named Xavier McGavin from his previous band, a Barcelona neo-rockabilly Stray Cats-styled band called The Pink Cats. Xavier was playing double bass with this unfortunate quartet for some years, but they had no success. However, The Pink Cats continued playing for some years with different line-ups until their definitive break up in the late 90s.
     At the end of 1991, Xavier joined up with Xavier J. Rom, a young guitarist from Badalona (a town near Barcelona) and a drummer nicknamed Keko (also from Barcelona). All of them had been good friends in the past and all of them shared a great liking for the Stray Cats. However, they wanted to do something fast and new, not just imitate the sound of the popular New York trio (as The Pink Cats had done).
     The inimitable Broncats arose this way, and after three months of hard work they had already a respectable repertory of their own songs, a demo tape and an incredible urge to start playing everywhere, not only in Spain, of course. Since their first days as The Broncats, they had one clear inclination towards psychobilly music, mixed with another influences. Their first demo tape was composed of three songs recorded at a cheap studio called Estudios Atlantida in Barcelona and completed with another eight live tracks recorded in the rehearsal room, so the sound quality of this tape was obviously poor. The three studio tracks (recorded in late February or Early march) sounded quite good, but for the band it was the first time that they stepped in a studio proper. In any case, this modest demo-tape brought the group some offers to play at little clubs. Their debut gig was in a pub in Calella (Costa Brava) called Set+set on March 29th, and surprisingly, the small club was filled up with a crowd of psychos, rockers, punks and also normal looking people. The gig was a success, of course, and the unstoppable Broncats' career began. There had never been a band like The Brocats in Spain. For many people they seemed to be the Spanish version of international bands such as Klingonz, Demented Are Go, Mad Sin or Nekromantix, and there never were in Barcelona so many psychobilly followers as in those days. The Broncats fans soon created The Broncat Crew, a loyal bunch of followers with many young guys adopting hairstyles like the band's spectacular quiffs. Many of those new psychos come from the Barcelona rockabilly scene of those days, the kids simply changed their ways of rocking after see the band playing. On stage, The Broncats sounded really powerful and their wildest concerts caused a great impression on the people anywhere they played....

The Broncats