{"id":2433,"date":"2015-06-05T18:59:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T17:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2011-08-03T14:14:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T14:14:17","slug":"the-calimocho-club-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%98whoa-whoa-hey-hey%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/the-calimocho-club-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%98whoa-whoa-hey-hey%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"The Calimocho Club \u2013 \u2018Whoa Whoa Hey Hey\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(EP, own label)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A howling phoenix emerging from the ashes of the mighty Black Knights, the Calimocho Club announce themselves rudely with a five-fingered statement of intent that sees the Hope\/Pickford duo emerge from the Salford Delta to distil the essence of the blues down to ital firewater.<\/p>\n<p>This is <em>minimum <\/em>r\u2019n\u2019b sugah, as in totally fat-free, lean sinuous, rock\u2019n\u2019roll that\u2019ll cum in <em>your<\/em> hair. \u2018She Told Me\u2019 opens with economy and assured precision, realising a perfect blues stomp without fuss, pretension, or shoes. \u2018War Machine\u2019 sends vapour trails of distortion strafing across a sonic miasma of fractured rhythm and vocal urgent testimony, before \u2018Baby Got A Switchblade\u2019 plots up amid some crepuscular back-alley street hassle that intermittently explodes across a Voodoo Chile soniscape.<\/p>\n<p>As Lux Interior correctly asserted, \u2018Rock\u2019n\u2019roll is <em>all <\/em>about sex\u2019. A proven fact that is given further weight by \u2018Smoking Area Blues\u2019, wherein notes are bent into priapic shapes that moisten the fleshy opening of this nasty slice of defenestrated urban angst. Finally, \u2018Roll The Dice\u2019 oozes forth; a slow-burning universal expansion that gathers momentum, then twists and writhes its way across the consciousness leaving a sticky, salty residue. You won\u2019t want to wash yourself after.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TCCPressShotA.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2433]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2437\" title=\"TCCPressShotA\" src=\"http:\/\/eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TCCPressShotA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TCCPressShotA.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TCCPressShotA-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecalimochoclub.co.uk\/default.asp\">The Calimocho Club website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thecalimochoclub\">Join the Club on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(EP, own label) A howling phoenix emerging from the ashes of the mighty Black Knights, the Calimocho Club announce themselves rudely with a five-fingered statement of intent that sees the Hope\/Pickford duo emerge from the Salford Delta to distil the essence of the blues down to ital firewater. This is minimum r\u2019n\u2019b sugah, as in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,93,71,86],"tags":[151,121,475,473,476,474],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-garage","category-music","category-rock","tag-dick-porter","tag-eyeplug","tag-gary-l-hope","tag-the-calimocho-club","tag-tom-pickford","tag-whoa-whoa-hey-hey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}