‘Heyshaw’ is the debut single from KEG who have just signed to stellar act-magnets Alcopop! Records. After bands with thrifty-threes and fab-fours, it’s refreshing to get a band with 7 members: Albert Haddenham (vocals), Joel Whitaker (bass) & Will Wiffen (synth), Frank Lindsay (guitar), Jules Gibbons (guitar), Charlie Keen (trombone & shell) and Johnny Pyke (drums).
KEG don’t spare the horses and you can hear every member of the band flexing muscles and throwing tics and spasms into the mix of this geography lesson based on Albert’s Mum’s family who moved around RAF bases from Kuwait, Kuala Lumpur to Driffield. It careens along like a V8 clown car or a controlled tumble down a hill, with drums so tight you couldn’t slide a cigarette paper between the beats, parp-slides of trombone (so good to hear trombone in indie music), a plate-drop of guitars, alien-computer synth wibble, and over the top (in both senses of the phrase) is Albert’s urgent voice with its geographic ululating. The overall effect is dizzying and people of a nervous disposition should look away before listening.
KEG are like a modern day slice of The Higsons (see ‘Where Have All The Club A-Go-Go’s Went Went’) or The Fire Engines (see ‘Get Up And Use Me’) and they are a righteous geometry set of angles and spiky compass points. I can’t wait to rummage in the pencil case of their forthcoming EP, out in October, and available to pre-save on all good streaming sites.
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Heyshaw – lyrics:
Judy left with anne and Jeany
Heyshaw wont work no more
Alec and connie waved her off
The only road to Harrogate
Anne met Charles
Jeany met rick
Jeany was a nurse
Rick be fixing planes
Took her all over the world
Took her all over the world
Singapore!
Malaysia!
Kuwait!
Berlin!
Judy popped out paul and simon
George was a mechanic
Playing cricket on the green
Charles got a job with the council
Rick and Jean and tracey and Jack
Never took a step down south
Jacky started seeing jewels
Precious metals and stones
Singapore!
Malaysia!
Kuwait!
Berlin!
Jackie took a trip back east
Smelling like old patchouli
Never could get with that spirit
Never could stomach that rubbish
East
Riding
The place
For us
Took her all over the world
Took her all over the world
Singapore!
Malaysia!
Kuwait!
Berlin!
Review by Paul F Cook
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