Larrikin Love
‘Six Queens’: psychedelia-strewn, Arabian guitar-squall fuzz freakery. ‘Little Boy Lost’: Libertines-y, sheeny, knees-up pop; brash and colourful, and of particular detriment to those with ‘two-hour hair regimes’. Quite a debut single (Young & Lost).
Larrikin Love, then. A foursome (Michael Larrikin – vox and pans; Michael Larkin – guitar; Alfie Ambrose – bass; Coz Kerrigan – drums) rigid in the ideals of a romantic and diverse fervour in their art. Thank f**k. ‘Edwould’; barnstomping next single ‘Happy As Annie’; and white-boy reggae masterpiece ‘Meet Me By The Getaway Car’ stand up as contemporary classics, a distant cry to the leather-jacketed hordes of any and all of the three-chord try-easy’s way out East.
Larrikin are spontaneous-performing (check your local Buddhist Temple; they might be plugging in last-minute when chucked out of the venue down the road for an underage fanbase hitting its steps…), blisteringly young (17 and upwards, capped at 23), and bookworm pundits (Laurie Lee, anyone?). Classic, wry Britishisms and certainly more universal sentimentality infuse their works, and calypso is as likely on the agenda as pogo-indie; adept musicality awash with vigour and opportunity, and scope, is a prerogative. A band for the art-schoolers; the dancers; the hardnuts; the people. No stone left unturned. This is something beautiful.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: Not as yet existent, strictly speaking. But soon to be uploaded with info and the such, one’d expect… ‘Til then…
MYSPACE: View the band’s Myspace page, which rather cunningly houses some mp3s to download, not to mention blogs/tour-dates from the band.
YOUNG & LOST: The two lurvely ladies responsible for the band’s strictly limited debut release, ‘Six Queens’ / ‘Little Boy Lost’.
TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS: we ask you to purvey the depths of our sister label, Transgressive. Call it nepotism or indecent bias that we’re featuring a band on rockfeedback which we’re releasing (LL’s second single, ‘Happy As Annie’), but it’s our service as some form of loose music-media to enthuse and inform of joyous, rousing, relevant new talent… Even if that means we’re somehow tied to it. Abuse at the usual email-addresses. For the meantime, view this site and find out more info on the band’s next impending release as and when news unfurls.