The Scopies
As I sift the ether for brand new musical biscuits, I come across a lot of rubbish. Forget Myspace or YouTube - I found this little gem via the Hillman Imp Club website. Over the years I've had many fascinating musical discussions around car show camp fires up and down the country and the odd thing about the Imp Club members - apart from a weakness for space hopper sumo wrestling (or is that a strength? Discuss) - is how similar our tastes in music seem to be. I've been introduced to a number of rare grooves by its members and sometimes a guitar has magically appeared. At one show, a Beer Powered Noise Frenzy broke out but I missed it. I knew one of my fellow Imp-o-philliacs, Tim Morgan, was a guitar hero and an innocent enquiry on the Imp site discussion forum about how he was getting on led to me discovering The Scopies . Okay, a trip to their page on Myspace was involved but that's okay because here I was introduced to their track "I wanna be a Ramone." ...