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SPEEDBALL BABY come at you all tumble-grind and twang-beat like thunder in a blizzard. Fusing the primordial slurp of rockabilly with a broken-homegrown hybrid of gospel testimony and punk mayhem, the group cuts a swath through the rotting cane fields of the contemporary music scene. Live, they harness hysteria - pounding out a thrown drink conniption fit as exuberant as a St. Vitas dance. Their shows have earned them the loyalty of music lovers and emergency room ghouls on both coasts and between. The notoriously fickle crowds in their home parish of NYC have stuck to SPEEDBALL BABY like feathers...

Speedball JR consists of Frantic Fre on guitar, Beatgirl AleXandra on Bass, Freaky Frank on drums and Nitro Nikky on hammond. The band was formed in the summer of 2000 during Ghent’s (surfcity Belgium) famous surf explosion. They originally played more traditional surf rock like Dick Dale, Bobby Fuller Four, The Chantays, Surfaris, the Ventures, Lively Ones and Blue Hawaïians. You can hear these influences on their first studio session which was recorded at the end of 2000 at yellow tape studio. Later on they developed a more trashy sound with more garage and sixties influences and started to write...