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27th December 2005
Well once again this year we've failed to keep this news page up to
date (maybe that'll be the new year's resolution.....again....hmmmm).
Anyway, we hope you've all had a good Xmas and Happy New Year of
course. And here are the highlights of 2005 (wow that sounds like a
cheap TV show!):
2 headline
concerts in California (The
Key Club, Sunset Blvd, Hollywood and
Galaxy Theatre,
Santa Ana).
German Tour.
Festivals in the
UK and Germany, including the biggest European punk festival:
Wasted.
Cherry
Red/Anagram Records release a "best of" album entitled "Let's
Wreck - The Gravest Hits".
Headline show in
New York at the Drop Dead Festival (also feat Nina Hagen and
other top death metal, gothic and psychobilly bands).
Sony
Corporation / ACIDplanet.com Drop Dead Mash Up competition
http://www.acidplanet.com/contests/dropdead/
.
And,
coming up in 2006:
AMP
Magazine (American Music Press) Presents Vol.5 Psychobilly
(compilation CD). Includes tracks from Coffin Nails, Nekromantix,
Mad Sin, Quakes, Meteors, Demented Are Go etc
www.ampmagazine.com
.
Concerts
booked in Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Germany.
12th March 2005
The Coffin Nails have just had their cover version of Madonna's "Like
A Virgin" released on the huge Japanese record label Avex
Inc. The compilation is entitled "More Best Hit S.K.A.", and
features tracks by Shootin' Goon, The Busters, [Spunge] and many
more...
10th December 2004
EXCLUSIVE!!! - The Coffin Nails
have just finished recording and mixed a cover version of
Madonna's "Like A Virgin" for a Japanese record label.
Please keep checking this page for more info
soon.
1st November 2004
Coffin Nails - "Let's Wreck - The
Gravest Hits" is finally released on Cherry
Red/Anagram Records. Here's
a review:
"I remember seeing this band years ago at The Klubfoot in London and was immediately impressed with their brand of Psychobilly though I must admit their humour did have something to do with it, as I always found that scene a little too macho on most part! This album is excellent and covers their history from their debut (Ein Bier Bitte) to last album (Hard As Nails) and if Psychobilly is your poison then this is an album you've gotta add to your collection. Some great tracks on here like 'Let's Wreck', 'She's A Moose', 'No Way', 'When I'm Drunk' and 'Girl Next Door'. Even their cover of 'Heartbreak Hotel' is pretty cool. For a band with so many line up changes the main man from the Coffin Nails 'Humungus' can be proud of the original Rock N Roll tunes they've been turning out for years. Buy this album and these guys on tour as they've plans to both Europe and The USA! (Anagram/Cherry Red) 10/10." - Full Frontal Recordings 2004
And here's the track listing: 1.Let's Wreck 2.Uncle Willy 3.Psycho Disease 4.Wind Up Dead 5.Penetration 6.If Only Mother 7.Heartbreak Hotel 8.Coffin Nails 9.Blubbery Love 10.She's A Moose 11.Carling Black Label 12.Skeleton Swamp 13.Inspector Clueso 14.Been Around The World 15.Ooh Aah 16.No Way 17.When I'm Drunk 18.Girl Next Door 19.Neurotic Dave 20.Hard As Nails 21.STD 22.Forbidden Love 23.Freaks Come Out At Night 24.Scared Of The Dark 25.Woke Up This Morning
29th October 2004
THE STORY OF THE COFFIN NAILS AND
THE WRECKERS BALL 2004 (30/10/04):
The Coffin Nails agreed and signed to play the Wreckers Ball 8 months before the concert, the Coffin Nails name was used on the advertising for 6 months (the band were a headline act, third on the bill). The flights should have been booked months before the concert of course, but after much chasing the promoter eventually said he would send the money to the band the first week of October (less than a month before the show), so they could book the flights themselves. It didn't arrive, and 10 days before the concert (again, after much hassling) the promoter said it was cheaper to book the flights himself. So the Coffin Nails waited for confirmation, and they waited! Then 4 days before the show, the promoter said the flights were booked and he'd send the booking details etc. The band were of course a bit sceptical at this stage and phoned Virgin Atlantic to check. Guess what - no flights were booked! 3 days before the show the Nails got some flight details through. So they rang Virgin again, the flights were reserved, but were not paid for! Then just two days before the concert the band got an email from the promoter to say "Ok this is not going to work.....it was a big screw up from the beginning."
So the Coffin Nails would like to apologise to anyone attending the Wreckers Ball in Los Angeles expecting to see them play, and strongly advise any band promoter, tour agent, or gig goer, to have nothing to do with Manuel Lepe the promoter of the Wreckers Ball. We have also heard similar stories from other bands on the scene about this promoter. Coffin Nails
24th October 2004
Thanks to all those who went to the
Coffin Nails/Nekromantix show at the Boxing Club in Reading
last week (the Coffin Nails home towm). Also thanks to Adam
at Skatepunk Reading for putting the show on. Humungus was a
little worse for ware (or 10 pints of Stella), did anyone
notice? The venue was pretty much sold out, and the pit got
on their backs and wrecked to Psycho Disease (yeah some of
you remember)!!!.
Also, there's a couple of new photos added to the website's Hot Rod page! More updates coming soon.
30th August 2004
The Coffin Nails pley with Demented
Are Go, Long Tall Texans and others at Mental Hell's Satanic
Stomp in Bochum, Germany. Very busy show it was too.
Humungus arrived from the airport literally 10 minutes
before show time (what 's a soundcheck anyway?).
Click
here for photos.
8th November 2003
Back in Germany, and the band play
the 13th Mental Hell Satanic Stomp in Gutosloh with Frenzy
and Space Cadets. Humungus signs a contract
agreeing
to only have 1 beer before playing (don't worry though, he had about 15 beers on stage!!!).
15th July 2003
The first reviews of the new album
appear, this one from Mental Hell, Germany:
"HARD AS NAILS brings the guys back to their roots. After the last CD being a bit too much 60s style, this new CD will rock your socks off if you like old style Psychobilly! The title song tells the story of our life. Wrecking and tattoing. A song like STD tells us that Humungus is a really sick brain. The sound and rhythm kicks all trough the record. You will find yourself back in the old times. Two upright bass songs make the record complete. Good stuff!"
30th June 2003
Humungus Opens His Own Tattoo
Shop
TAT2-U, 56 Station Hill, Reading, UK
Humungus (Coffin Nails Front-man) - AKA Klunky
It was klunkys passion for music and the 80's punk/psychobilly scene that was the inspiration of himself becoming tattooed. Born in '66, he went to Ian of Reading at his Sailsbury Road studio for his first tattoo in 1985. Like many others, it was the beginning of many years under the needle. Being a regular customer to Ians they forged a friendship and so entrusted Ian a free reign to express his ideas. The result - some amazing work from the award winning artist. Klunky became part of the crew involved in the highly successful Expo which was held in Dunstable which ran for many years. During these years Ian expanded his studio taking on many talented artists along the way. In 1996 he approached klunky to work in the studio as his apprentice and in 1997 he took on the role full time. After 7 years working with some of the worlds most respected and talented tattoo artists Klunky took the plunge and opened his own studio in June 2003.
16th June 2003
The new album "Hard As Nails" is
released on 16th June 2003 and Greystone Records largest
order to date is shipped to the U.S.
31st May 2003
Fresh from the studio the Nails
perform 4 UK and 4 German dates in the run-up to the eagerly
anticipated release of their new album &endash; HARD AS
NAILS.
23rd November 2002
The boys perform a sell-out show in
Northern Germany with Nekromantix and Tiger Army. This was
one awesome show, psychobilly very much alive in
Europe!
21st May 2002
Approximately 450 people attend the
concert in Marktredwitz, Germany on 19th May 2002. Check out
Coffin Nails site for photos.
26th Feb 2002
Finally the long awaited studio
album 'Out For The Weekend'. Recorded in Greystone's very
own studio the 'Dawg House'. UK release date is MONDAY 22ND
APRIL 2002. The album contains some up-tempo punk anthems as
you have come to expect from the band. 'Been Around Again'
with its obvious ska influences and 'King Of The Mosh's'
laid back swing sound also show how diverse the band can be.
Front-man Humungus is on top form with both vocals and
guitar and the Mad Man plays both electric and double bass
on the album.
1st Feb 2002
Some European live dates confirmed
so keep checking the site for info.
1st Dec 2001
'Mental Hell' German Mini Tour -
Thanks to all those who went to the shows and sold out three
of the 4 dates - see the GIGS page on the bands web site for
some interesting photos! The band would like to apologize
for not having pre-release copies of their new album for
sale as promised.
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