Engine Punk

Regular followers may remember I saw The Creepshow at the White Rabbit last year. One of their support bands was The Rocker Covers, a trio of automotively literate songsmiths who makeover pop hits to devise the most happily subversive covers of songs you might know. Some might be favourites given The Rocker Cover treatment and others might be on your most hated list that have also been given a similar work over to become simply brilliant! I am assured Poker Face is a Lady Gaga hit but am more familiar with The Rocker Covers version. I know - I have so much street cred. But listen to the way it starts off! That's from Brand New Cadillac by The Clash! (Except theirs was a cover version of some old bloke...) The point is, some versions can't be beat and are the ones you carry with you as your favourite. That's happened to me and so many of these songs on Revved Up. There are so many songs I think would benefit from The Rocker Cover's treatment. I could do qui...

Sarah Blackwood (who rocks) (Photo : Last FM) So you already know that I enjoyed The Creepshow with their new line up. Since then I've become aware of the circumstances that led up to the changes in the band. Sarah "Sin" Blackwood has left to concentrate on her other projects and the rest of The Creepshow will continue in a slightly different direction. I don't know how the dynamic in bands works. Her older sister and founder member of The Creepshow, Jen "Hellcat" Blackwood, left on maternity. If The Creepshow was a corporation maybe she could come back? And surely being the little sister of a founder member must give Sin some security of tenure? I'd seen the video footage of The Creepshow with Sin in action and would love to have seen this little blonde piece with the big guitar rock out live (in a graveyard by a swamp somewhere) but that's not going to happen. Fortunately, The Creepshow can still cut it so I wasn't disappointed. Just ...