Don't Hear It...Fear It

Head Drude Julian Cope described the Shovell as proto-metal likening them to Dust, Emerge era The Litter and NY City underground supremo's Lord Baltimore high praise indeed!

These guys ain't no classic rock revivalist's (who ever coined that classic rock genre should be f***in shot!!!). They play with a passion and more 'f*** you' attitude than Black Flag, the Pink Fairies and the MC5 rolled together. But this ain't no inept punk rock man...this is heavy rockin attitood, concerned with the brutal honesty of playing what yer true to with sincerity and honesty, regardless of what's meant to be hip or trendy and I ain't talkin popular hip n trendy, coz we all know that hip and trendy fashion exists just as much as supposed hip underground worlds just as much as in them overground ones.

What we're talkin here is honest, fun, sincere heavy music that couldn't give a f*** what year it is or what YOU wear. If these guys are trying to revive anything, it's the long lost idea that music should be from the heart and soul, exciting, inspiring, energized, amazing and most of all FUN!!! Remember when music was like that??? Huh??? Do ya??? They do. It s pure escapist entertainment with its feet firmly planted in grim reality, which is what, if we're being honest here, is what all good music is all about. F*** the bill's, jobs, relationships and all that s*** - have a drink, drop a pill, smoke a joint, or don't, dig the music, nod yer head and lose yerself in this s*** - you'll feel a whole lot better for it!