THE DIRTY DENIMS – Ready Steady Go! (2020)
Dutch female fronted rock ‘n’ rollers THE DIRTY DENIMS are releasing today their brand spankin’ first long player ‘Ready, Steady, Go!’.
This Eindhoven based band has been at it for a decade now and sound-wise combine the traditional rock ‘n’ roll sound of Joan Jett, Seventies Kiss and The Sweet with a slew of AC/DC riffs thrown in for good measure.
The Dirty Denims claim to play Happy Hard Rock: hard rock that makes you feel good in a heartbeat. What they do deal in is upbeat, kicking rock ‘n’ roll with a sound and energy that makes you want to turn the dial up a notch and party with the best of them.
With its powerhouse 80s drums, rumbling bass and tongue-in-cheek lyricism ‘Thunder From Down Under’ tips its hat to AC/DC in more ways than one and they even throw in the riff to The Cult’s ‘Wild Flower’ for good measure.
‘Roll The Dice’ follows a similar path, with killer riffs emanating from each speaker, stabs of piano, high-powered hollerin’ and cool, gang backing vocals.
‘Turn off The Radio’ will incite you to do just that and put a damn record on! Today’s radio tunes are boring anyway, right? The Dirty Denims know that and so do you! Here, we are in prime power pop The Donnas / Joan Jett territory. Urgent, anthemic and melodic, just the way we like it. Elsewhere, ‘Creatures Of The Night’ is not the Kiss classic, but it crunches nicely and powers through, a solid traditional 80s rocker that stands on its own two feet.
‘Band Not a Brand’ is killer, bubblegum pop n’roll full of handclaps and organ riffs. It’s their Saturday morning kids TV theme, a middle finger to high street stores that sell Ramones shirts to Instagram influencers who wouldn’t know ‘Road To Ruin’ if it smacked them in the face. It’s also one of the best and most commercial song on the album.
‘Messin Around’ adds cool percussion to the sound. This mixes well with Mirjam’s high octane hollerin’ and Jeroen’s classic rock riffage to give 70s foot-stomping glam nostalgia.
They like the rocking ‘Last Call For Alcohol’ so much they played it twice. This CD version of the album closes with a ‘Hangover Version’, stripped back and laid bare with acoustics and percussion, it’s the Sunday morning hangover remedy to the Saturday night party.
‘Ready, Steady, Go!’ is a fun, party record that does exactly what it says on the tin. The Dirty Denims are doing nothing new, they aren’t here to change the world or preach a message in these uncertain times.
But if you want escapism, if you desire something old school to kick your ass into next week and to blast from the stereo while you hit the highway to Hell, then you could do no better than visit Eindenhoven Rock City for 40 minutes or so.
Highly Recommended
01 – Ready, Steady, Go!
02 – Last Call for Alcohol
03 – Too Much Information
04 – Thunder from Down Under
05 – Turn Off the Radio
06 – Roll the Dice
07 – Messin’ Around
08 – Creatures of the Night
09 – Band Not a Brand
10 – Beautiful (My Darling)
CD only Bonus Track:
11 – Last Call for Alcohol (Hangover Version)
Mirjam Sieben – Vocals / Guitar / Organ
Jeroen Teunis – Guitar / vocals
Marc Eijkhout – Bass / vocals
Suzanne Driessen – Drums / vocals
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