Speedball JR "For the Broad Minded" 2006

Speedball Jr. play with unending intensity and volume. Louder and harsher than Dick Dale these days. This is not your father's surf. A complete energy drain. You may not be able to take it all the way through in one sittin. Aggressive, intense, & way over the top. - Phil DirtThe band was formed in the summer of 2000 during Ghent’s (surfcity Belgium) famous surf explosion. They originally played more traditional surf rock like Dick Dale, Bobby Fuller Four, The Chantays, Surfaris, the Ventures, Lively Ones and Blue Hawaïians. You can hear these influences on their first studio session which was recorded at the end of 2000 at yellow tape studio. Later on they developed a more trashy sound with more garage and sixties influences and started to write their own tunes. Some of which were even used for publicity clips and for soundtracks by a local cinema chain and a German hot rod magazine.
The High spot of 2001 for the band was when they did the support for British Garage Gods The Prisoners, but the band also gigged with a number of cool surf bands like Jon & The Nightriders, Slacktone, The Wangs among others, all the time they were honing their sound and finding their own place among these contemporaries.
Speedball JR continue to Gig all over Europe, bringing their intense reverb soaked liveshow to festivals and venues near you! So put on your shrunken head necklace, steal your grannies ironing board and surf on down to a venue near YOU!!! - Ike Andrews, Café the fairplayers, Ghent, 2006Speedball JR consists of Frantic Fre on guitar, Beatgirl AleXandra on Bass, Freaky Frank on drums and Nitro Nikky on hammond.

trax:
1. U69 2. Inferno 3. Orient Express 4. Laguna Beach 5. Scalped 6. What a Way to Run a Railroad 7. Sudden Billy 8. El Camino 9. Caramba! 10. Pipeline 11. Le Chat Noir 12. Rudolph's Secret