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The Colt.45s
Genre: Electro / Punk / New Wave
From : Durham, Newcastle, United Kingdom

There are songs that excite you when you hear them for the first time, songs that make you glad to be alive, songs that change the way you think of music, songs that make the hair rise on the back of you neck, songs that you’ll always remember where you where when you first heard them. Songs such as ‘Violence Grows’ by The Fatal Microbes, ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ by Joy Division, ‘This Charming Man’ byThe Smiths , ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ by Nirvana and ‘Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t Have Fallen In Love With)’ by The Buzzcocks have all had that effect on The Devil over the years. This year ‘Dear Flies Love Spider’ by The Low Lows and ‘Boom Bang’ by The Bohays have both had that same effect. Well you can add another song and band to that select list, ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ by Durhams Colt.45s, a perfectly timed incendiary device primed to explode in your brain the minute you hear it. This is a track that deserves a blog of it’s own, bleakly beautiful and atmospheric it manages to sound like Siouxsie and the Banshees covering The Passions ‘I’m In Love With A German Filmstar’ in the style of Gary Numan.

Leeanne, Andy, Keith and Anne-Marie, who make up The Colt.45s, claim to be a happy family but this is at odds with their sparse fuzzed up electro punk, an unsettling merger of the minimalistic electro of Cabaret Voltaire and The Normal , the wit of The Smiths and the DIY punk and infectious hostility of Help She Can’t Swim. Their music sounds at least two steps removed from the current music scene which is reason enough to cherish the Colt.45s.

Go Try

The Colt .45s debut album “Let’s Have An Accident” will be available in October.

Go VisitThe Colt.45s - Myspace

Go See

14 July 2007, Tall Boy @ Echo Bar w/ Dayglo Syndrome, Heaton;
20 July 2007, A NIGHT OF FILTH! @ The Dog and Parrot, Newcastle;
21 July 2007, A NIGHT OF FILTH! @ Nice’n'Sleazy, Glasgow;
27 July 2007, FISHFOOD, Fish Tank, Durham28 Jul WV Festival! Halifax, Calderdale;
31 July 2007, Let Them Eat Gak, The Rhythm Factory, London;
2 August 2007, Born Snapped, The Station Hotel, Whitley Bay;
4 August 2007, The Hope & Anchor, London;
8 August 2007, Whistlebinkies - Edinburgh Music Festival - on stage 1am!!;
9 August 2007, Jabez Clegg, Manchester;
10 August 2007, The Windmill Inn, Blyth;
12 August 2007, Start, The Mixing Tin, Leeds;
20 August 2007, Ignition @ The Cooperage, Newcastle;
21 Sept 2007, The Travellers Rest w/ 2 Thirds Of Youth, Lincoln;