6th October 2007: The Leatherettes @ The Arctic Bar, Dundee - (Gig, Dundee, ARCTIC BAR)

[RiseAgainst]

never even knew they put on anything bar Karaoke!

isnt it quite a tight venue?

[Brick Tamland]

is the artic bar not a total shit hole with a bunch of nutters for clientele?

[Hometown Zero]

its a strange venue if i remember right, odd shape.

[Becca Bomb]

fuck knows, ive never actually been there.
apparently its just been taken over by new management and its gonna have gigs every fri/sat

[Becca Bomb]

http://www.myspace.com/thearcticbar

[*Lyndsey*]

Its being ripped apart and done up right now, builders have been in for a bit.

I could just about picture it being like the Balcony. Feel sorry for the old clientelle, loads of coffin dodgers drank there. Haha they might pop in anyway and have a wee dance :P

[wildhouse]

whats the deal with hire costs,pa and stuff like that
anyone know?

[Wee_rick]

Been asked to play there soon, so might do, i remember it being long and narrow but if theres workies in, they coulda done anything to it.

[PAPAWINDY]

That poster looks fantastic!

[Becca Bomb]

Originally Posted by PAPAWINDY

That poster looks fantastic!

cheers

[Thee Alex]

Do you remember when you thought I'd missed the date off this poster?

GigPosters.com - Trash Superstar

[Becca Bomb]

Originally Posted by Thee Alex

Do you remember when you thought I'd missed the date off this poster?

GigPosters.com - Trash Superstar

haha
thats going back a bit! that was smart

[Becca Bomb]

we live for bad reviews, everone knows canadians are clueless!

however if you were interested in actual reviews

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From this issues Is this music?

Dundee duo, Leatherettes, have been scaring and enthralling live audiences over the last year or so. They employ similar tools to Dirtblonde; rudimentary percussion, jagged guitars and raw vocals but Bekka’s voice has a real sense of edginess to it. ‘Asylum’ builds into a good chorus though the production sounds a little subdued forcing me to turn up the volume several notches. ‘Shoot To Thrill’ is pure, unadulterated bratty punk-pop with its howled vocal, razor sharp guitar and basic but effective beats. Bekka sounds out on a limb as she yells ‘I wanna break down barriers’ before launching into the biting but playful chorus:

You got a pistol
You shoot to kill
I’ve got a 45
I shoot to thrill.

Leatherettes are truly in love with the trashier end of pop culture. ’66 Miles’ sounds like an unholy alliance of Suicide with guitars and T-Rex on bad drugs. ‘Mickey and Minnie’ is such a wonderful, catchy dumb song reimagining the much loved cartoon characters as the stars of a contemporary version of Badlands as Bekka screams and squawks ‘Run, run away with me little Mickey / Rock, rock away with me little Minnie’. ‘Telephone Wires’ sees the introduction of a bass guitar. Oh the sell-outs. And it clocks in at just over five minutes, which, in the world of the Leatherettes is akin to prog-rock. In reality though ‘Telephone Wires’ has a cool groove interspersed with economical bursts of guitar and a desperate, panicked sounding vocal. Final song, ‘You Stole The Fuck’ still reminds me obtusely of the Lounge Lizards weird take on “Money’ with its curious rhythm track and scratchy guitar in the chorus, especially in the sparse ‘You stole the fuck from me / So fuck me some more’ passages. Leatherettes are… well more twisted geniuses really.

Dirtblonde and Leatherettes operate in a twilight world where the canonical bands are not the Beatles or Beach Boys and their heirs but the Cramps, 60s garage punk, The Stooges, Pussy Galore, The Kills, mid 70s New York punk. An imagined place where music can offend and inspire not simply end up as incidental music in a mall or on football highlights. And for this, and their winning ways with the primitive, primeval riff and hook, I salute them. Turn up the treble and pass the amphetamine please!
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Daily Record -

The Leatherettes - Jet Black And Bleached

DUNDEE is on fire. The View, The Law and now The Leatherettes have arrived to burn holes in your brain. The duo of Johnny Yen and singer Becca Bomb create stripped backed fuzzed up guitar noize. A mix of The Cramps and The Jesus And Mary Chain, THE LEATHERETTES ARE EVERYTHING WE NEED IN MUSIC.
Songs like Shoot To Kill with Becca's voice sounding like it's been squeezed through a radio are simple psychobilly, just guitar and drum machine. but with lyrics such as 'you've got a pistol/I've got a gun/you've got a 45/you're not the only one', Becca has as much attitude as Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie.
Jet Black And Bleached is out now.
Their Johnny Thunders EP is also a free download from www.filthylittleangels.com
The Leatherettes play Box, Glasgow tonight (June 22) and West Port Bar, Dundee next Friday, June 29.

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THE SUNDAY EXPERIENCE
The Leatherettes 'Johnny Thunders' EP.

We must get our act together and get around to writing up the promised review for their stunning split album release with Dirtblonde but hell we are having so much fun getting down and dirty with it that we've forgotten the real purpose as to why it was sent to us in the first place.

This EP features four slices of caustic DIY gnarled shade wearing, hip hugging fuzz pop from Dundee's premier dislocated duo Becca and Johnny - minimalist primal scuzzy boogie for all is what you get for the asking. 'Johnny Thunders' the opener sounds not unlike an over excited Fay Fife doing her best Debbie 'X Offender' Harry impersonation while fronting the Ramones, the frayed and stripped to the bone production though not as bargain basement as the Mummies yet not far off adds to the edge.

The dirtily fraught 'Born bad' with its slinky side winding riffs and pouting fuck you demeanour is a bearing down vibrant slice of gritty fuzzed out and mutated three chord candy pop that sounds to these ears as though it was fathered by early career Suicide.

'Mickey and Minnie' provides for a spot of saccharine laced stutter boogie, furiously feisty and the best thing here - a kind of ASBO waving half cousin of Toni Basil's 'Mickey' fron