Label: Count Orlok
Country: Belgium
Year: 1995
Genre: Psychobilly,Garage-Trash-Rock'n'roll
Quality: VBR — Quality Level 0 (highest)
Size: 74 MB
Time: 38.59 m
Website: SIN ALLEY
Фантастический дебютный альбом от группы из Бельгии!
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Переулок Греха...Место, где проступок встречает преступление, где насилие встречает зло,
где проступок встречает скандал. Это подъезд к миру вне сострадания, вне человеческого
достоинства. Грустные истории запрещенной любви, потерянных жизней, неустанной жестокости
и отвратительной индивидуальности.Взрывчатое вещество!
Катитесь и слушайте!!!
Psycho-rockabilly-surf band from Lier.
The oldest traces of the band Sin Alley can be found in Franky & The Rednecks, a rockabilly
band that had an ever changing set of musicians between 1983 en 1992, including
Alain van den Brande (earlier with The Rowdies) and guitarist Ruben Block. In 1992, they
decided to form the band Tiny Tinne & The Texas Jumpers together with drummer Koen Verbeek
(who had been playing in a number of bands together with Filip Casteels — later El Fish —
such as Shakey & The Hunting Tones, The Grasshoppers and The Crawlin' Kingsnake Rhythm &
Blues Band ) and the short but spectacular female singer Martine Vanhoof. After a couple
of months Tiny Tinne and her outfit changed the name of the band to Sin Alley.
After a first EP "Let's Dance", they recorded a CD/LP "Headin' For Vegas" in 1995.
The sound of the band had evolved from rockabilly to rockabilly with psycho-, garage- &
surf-influences (eg. the surf-instrumental "Dale's Dick", which was described by an adept
of the genre from the USA as "A tribute to the big guy himself. This track shreds
mercilessly, with big glissandos and major double pickage, plus an over all evil sound.
Big twang and plenty of speed. It ain't no Fender sound, but then it doesn't seem to matter.
A real grinder").
Within the psycho-rockalilly-surf "subculture", the CD was eagerly accepted. Zine Cosmic
Debris for example wrote about "Headin' For Vegas": "This CD is, simply put, one of the
most insane, balls-out, kick-ass Rock 'n' Roll records I've heard in a while!
Put Wanda Jackson circa 1959 and Reverend Horton Heat in a blender and you'll get Sin Alley.
Hailing from Belgium, they are fronted by the gorgeous and strong-voiced Martine Van Hoof,
Sin Alley create a whirlwind of rockabilly, blues, country and punk that rarely lets up...".
More conventional sources such as Mvs in Humo on the contrary said things like :
"The members of Sin Alley do have the looks it takes in these circles (royally applied
brilliantine, finely trimmed sideburns, goatees at the right spot and one of grandad's
wrong shirts around the shoulders) and really know how to move about in the shadowy
underworld where bands like The Cramps have been roaming for ages. Sin Alley's sound is
swinging and even exciting, but after about four songs we found out that the hideous
squeaking and noise coming from the speakers wasn't a technical malfunction, but the voice
of singer Martine Van Hoof. ... When they would give this singer to de Lama's, maybe
something good would come from this band. If not, Sin Alley runs a terrible risk of
becoming a blind alley."
At the end of 1995, drummer Koen Verbeek left the band (he would start a new band named
Los Fabulous Frankies and would also feature in Runnin' Wild), and his place within
Sin Alley was taken by Batmobile's drummer Johnny Z (Batmobile is the main Psychobilly
band of the Netherlands, and also at the cradle of the Count Orlock label, on which the
Headin' For Vegas CD was issued).
In 1996, the band issued a double single "Detroit 442" (in transparent blue and red vinyl)
with 5 tracks — featuring a cover of song "Money" of the Sonics, in a production by
Walter Broes (the singer of the great rootsrockband The Seatsniffers).
News about the band after this got very scarce, and the band died a subsequent silent death.
A few years after these last life-signs, Ruben Block appeared on the scene with Trigger
Finger (together with Noordkaap's Mario Goossens and Wladimir Geels) and together with
Sin-Alley singer Martine van Hoof and Ashbury Faith's Axl Peleman in the poprock band a la
Garbage AngeliCo. Martine (about 1,50 m. and sometimes labeled the Debbie Harry of Lier)
about this in Gazet van Antwerpen : "I don't think we are going to conquer the world any
longer. The years in Sin Alley have tought me experience and a sense for putting things in
perspective".
Sin Alley — Detroit 442
TRACKLIST:
01 — SIN ALLEY — Red Hot Texan
02 — SIN ALLEY — I Don't Need You No More
03 — SIN ALLEY — Cheat On Me
04 — SIN ALLEY — Lovin' And Leavin'
05 — SIN ALLEY — The Witch
06 — SIN ALLEY — Death Row
07 — SIN ALLEY — My Shoebox's Boss
08 — SIN ALLEY — Last Goodbye
09 — SIN ALLEY — Sinsational
10 — SIN ALLEY — Frantic Franky
11 — SIN ALLEY — Dale's Dick
12 — SIN ALLEY — Crazy Fever
13 — SIN ALLEY — 4 O'Clock Baby
14 — SIN ALLEY — Headin' For Vegas
Martine Van Hoof — vocals.
Ruben Block — guitars & 6-string bass.
Alain Van Der Brande — double & electric bass.
Koen Verbeek — drums & percussion.
Albums :
Let's Dance (EP, Demolition Derby 1994)
Headin' For Vegas (Count Orlock (CD) / Nitro (LP), 1995)
Detroit 442 (double single, red & blue vinyl, Demolition Derby, 1996)
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