The five-piece The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster comes from the southern English seaside town of Brighton. After a few promising singles, their debut album Hörse Of The Dög was released domestically at the end of 2002. The reactions in the music magazines were mostly enthusiastic, but most journalists were amazed at the youthfulness of the band members (their age varies from 18 to 22 years).
Both in terms of music and appearance they seem to be influenced by (eighties) bands that they were never able to experience consciously. Some names that crossed my mind when listening to Hörse Of The Dög: The Cult, The Cramps, The The, The Gun Club, Birthday Party and (of course) Joy Division. Yet there are also similarities to be discovered with contemporaries such as Placebo, Ikara Colt and Cooper Temple Clause and the umlauts from the album title are of course a tribute to Mötörhead. After this list, the attentive reader probably knows enough: The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster makes raw, energetic and jet black rock and their singer screams and screams like a psychiatric patient in an isolation cell. The ten tracks speed by in less than 26 minutes and have the same devastating impact as bulldozer. Very special record! (MvP) Very special record! (MvP) Very special record! (MvP)more
