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It was a shocking move not unlike the way Mark E Smith at his very worst treated members of the Fall. They’d been together some years, released acclaimed albums like Big Bad Beautiful Noiseand played some great shows. In 2019 he sacked the entire band out of the blue, via a Facebook post. A man who doesn’t suffer fools and somehow resembles a human Pit Bull Terrier in a suit. In common with the Stranglers and Buzzcocks, the Godfathers are perhaps more a brand now than a band, with only one original member left: Frontman and vocalist Peter Coyne. There are plenty of quality moments on Alpha Beta Gamma Delta…

‘OCD, did a job on me‘ is a neat Ramones reference and the music is more typically punchy and in classic Godfathers mould. The other track on both the EP and LP is OCD which is much more like it. It’s corny opening section is a cliche-too-far to my mind. The lead song from the flagship Midnight Rider EP is bit of a strange romanticization of the plight of the refugee with Slash style guitar and an Iggy vibe. You can almost imagine Johnny Cash singing with the Manic Street Preachers to a version of Psychedelic Furs All That Money Wants.

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Ironically my favourite track on the album is full of uncharacteristic positivity, an accidental Morecambe and Wise nod, and name-checks for Lou Reed and Brian Wilson. … but it still has to have the sharp-cut, anger-as-an-energy and negative drive of Godfathers classics like I’m Unsatisfied’. Now, that is a song-title I can get behind! An anthem to unite us realists, miserable bastards and have-nots…Īnd if you are going to write a(nother) rock’n’roll state-of-the-nation address then, after Boris, Covid, the economy… there is only one thing it can be called… With flashes of utter brilliance in eight out of the twelve songs. But they almost do it.Īlpha Beta Gamma Delta is: Decent. But with a back catalogue that includes Hit by Hit, Birth, School, Work, Death and More Songs About Love and Hate, come on, it was gonna be difficult to match up to, let alone better, those peerless works of incredible UK Rock’n’Roll. He’d fuckin’ love it and be proud of his old Heavy Drapes band mates Richie Simpson and Billy Duncanson who play an absolute blinder throughout…Įvery band says their latest album is their best and the Godfathers are no exception. I hope there is wi-fi in the afterlife and the late Garry Borland gets to hear this album. Thirty-seven years on the latest incarnation of the band lead by Peter Coyne, release a new album… Long time fan Ged Babey reviews and like the band, refuses to compromise. A new take on the ‘punk band’ who dressed like gangsters and sang about ‘This Damn Nation’, sex, greed and the cycle of life. Our goal is to make your listening experience “The Best Seat in the House”.Between 1986 and ’89 the Godfathers were ‘probably the best rock’n’roll band in the fucking world’. The RR team believes that how a recording sounds is as important as the music itself.

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