I’ve had to repost this blog after myspace spazing out on me and really cannot be bothered trying to figure it out so here its is.

HI All,
Hope your all keeping well, just a quick blog to let you know about our plans in the coming months.

PORTUGAL
First up, we’re flying to Portugal tomorrow at the invite of X Productions and Events for a small tour if you need any info about venues, show times or ticket prices please email Xana at info (@) x-productions-eventsagency.com

Dj Rasef from Glasgows Eruption Club and Label will be joining us on this tour along with The Legendary Tigerman will be playing with us on the Saturday night.  We’re delighted to play these dates with our good friend DJ Rasef, he’s one of the nicest guys we know and top DJ.  Touring with people you don’t get on with is a frigging nightmare, that won’t be an issue.

21 Oct 2009 TBA

22 Oct 2009 COIMBRA @ VIA LATINA PLUS AFTERPARTY WITH DJ RASEF 23 Oct 2009 Armazem Do Chá -Porto 24 Oct 2009 Cine-Teatro de Estarreja + Dj Rasef

We’re going to be debuting a couple of new tunes from our new album on these dates, speaking of which….

NEW ALBUM
We’re planning our new album which we will start recrording some time in the new year.  The plan for the minute is to go to a studio and record rather than do it ourselves as we did with Good Suits & Fightin’ Boots.  We have already been in touch with a few name studios and producers that expressed interest in doing it.  We’re also going to be looking for a new label to put it out and with it that means we’ll be touring more, so all our friends across the world who have sent us requests to come and play a show in their towns, that may happen next year.

N.I. CHART
We’re sitting pretty at number 8 in the NI download chart go check it out here and download yourself a free tune. http://www.nichart.com/charts.html

COMPILATION
We’ve got a couple of tunes going out on Gasoline Santa Barbara label in the coming months, we’ll be delighted to let you all know when they’re available to buy.

Thats about it for now, we’re rehearsing hard and are going to be gigging more in the next year, stay in touch kids and come on down to see us at a show.

Andy & Chris
The Bonnevilles

THE BONNEViLLES - GOOD SUiTS and FiGHTiN’ BOOTS!

The Bonnevilles are a grimy punk-infected rocknsoulblues duo out of Lurgan. Bonnevilles guitarist/singer Andy McGibbon day job is boss of Lurgan’s Motor Sound Records which represents a stable of underground (if there is such a thing anymore) outsider blues and garage outfits from around the globe (check out my review of Motor Sounds wicked compilation Blood On The Scratch Plate ‘65). With their new release Good Suits and Fightin’ Boots, The Bonnevilles announce their arrival as a band to reckoned with, feared, and loved.

McGibbon’s voice is a gritty, sexy, early Danny Auerbach-ian soul machine. His guitar sound swings thick, heavy, and as tasteful as a saws-all with a new blade, at once vicious and keen-edged. McGibbon keeps the vibe hangin’ low, feedback full, and on-point exact. Drummer Chris McMullan’s work is burly…soulful like ironwood and it tears at the seams of McGibbon’s vintage pinstriped pocket, primally adding what’s sonically required and vital. As a team they give each other the needful room the music requires to breath, grind, wail, and shake.

Shall we get on to the album? Let’s shall.
Hey! Bonnevilles! Who the fck starts out their first album with an instrumental? You do, ya bastards. That takes some cojones. But while Good Suits stands tall as a powerful eleven track filler-less collection of singles it also flows album-wise, weaving from the aforementioned instro One More Nail Outta Rock n’ Rolls Coffin to the souped up garage stormer Army of One to the boogieass menace of title tracker Good Suits and Fightin’ Boots. No Government, No Country, No King is a slow, tense politiblues burner which is followed by The Drag which sports a similar hot slow burning, if not sexier vibe and ends with the snip of a JFK speech. The centerpiece of this work, God Might Love Me (But He Doesn’t Know Me Like The Devil Does) stands as one of the tracks I found myself playing repeatedly. McMullan’s simple slow tribal toms match McGibbon’s on-point grungy slide work to set a resigned yet menacing tone. Acoustic roots rocker I don’t Like Whiskey is a blues redeemer. Super single C’Mon is a delicious hook filled head knocker and bottle buster with it’s singalong chorus raisin’ hell and fuss. The Belgians Are Coming is two minutes of Dick Dale-esque red tide dirty surf perfection. The set ends with the wicked live anthem Hardtale Lurgan Blues that smokes deep and hard from fit to fin. Like my man Dj Hillfunk says “it’s a slow grower” but once I locked into the turbo charged souled-out grinding alt-blues sound of The Bonnevilles I was blown up and dusted. The Bonnevilles Good Suits and Fightin’ Boots easily ranks high on my short list of best albums of the year.

You Will buy The Bonnevilles- Good Suits and Fightin’ Boots HERE

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