Instrumental punky noise which wouldn't defy description for anyone versed in such matters, but which probably merits a listen via their myspace site. Members of The Knockouts are reportedly "in too deep" and have been advised it's easier to carry on than give up now. On stage, they look like reanimated Shrunken Heads above out-of-shape bodies. Their music is compared to lots of other acts. See the links page for lots of Knockouts visualities.
Discography
You're Breaking My Hands; 31 track MP3 from Amazon, Spotify, HMV, all your other favourite on line providers and iTunes too; from Christmas 2011 Compilation of early tracks, demo and live versions of unreleased tunes. Bargain price; an ideal beginning, middle and end for the self-start KO fan.
The Chicken Incident / Serious Bucks / Monkey Mantra / Devil's A.D.V.O.C.A.A.T /
King of the Track / Crosby's Poncho / Gaol / The Low Countries / Northern Zone /
Driving Range/The Eyes / Vendredi Maintenant / Mexico / DERV / El Problemo /
The Interceptor / The Pranny / Neil Diamond Tribute Night / Like Monkeys /
Govt. Bhang Shop / Big Game Player / Monsieur Savoureaux / Anthem for Tuscany /
The Ceaseless Tide of English Gits / Marimba Time / Harmful Ray's / No Trainers /
Strikeout / The Plough / Elephant House / KO Theme / (Outro) Foreign Sounds
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Live at The Turf Club cd; 50 given away with Ice Cream for Quo edition 12, May 2010
Live recordings from George II, June 2009
Hair and Teeth / Alabama WIld Man / Gunslinger / King of the Track /
Vendredi Maintenant / Randall Accessible / No Trainers / Vulture Circle / Zinc /
Big Woman in Perfume
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Dimanche Maintenant cd set, (Don Quixhall product, 2010)
Live recordings from Bute St, October 2009 - Avaialble from shop
Disc one (George II 23.10.09) - Zinc / Alabama Wild Man / Northern Zone /
Vendredi Maintenant / King of the Track / Big Woman in Perfume / Hair and Teeth / Vulture Circle / Randall Accessible / Dum Maro Dum
Disc two - photographs on Powerpoint
Disc three - (Hat Factory 24.10.09) - Zinc / Alabama Wild Man / Northern Zone / Vendredi Maintenant / King of the Track / Big Woman in Perfume / Hair and Teeth / Vulture Circle / Randall Accessible
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Honolulu Suncream cd (High Town / Topplers, 2009)
Studio recording - available from our shop, Topplers, downloads and Spotify
Test Signal / Zinc / Alabama Wild Man / Northern Zone / Vendredi Maintenant /
King of the Track / Big Woman in Perfume / Hair and Teeth / Vulture Circle /
Randall Accessible
number 12 in Mike Bradshaw's Seasonal Sixty
Paypal via this website (cd; better quality), OR download.
"It sounds like a distorted motorway." - Rebecca Fall
"It sounds like a robot chewing with no teeth." - Benjamin Fall
RAUCOUS, PRIMITIVE RACKET Topplers Records
"the intro sound isn't cool, only annoying. The un-tightness of it isn't cool either. ...... When the song actually kicks off, the one sound I like is the guitar, that is, during his chord playing. The drums sound awful, not just lo-fi. That bass sound—whatever it is—continues to break my balls throughout..... it is just too poorly executed for me to enjoy it." An Adrian album's review poster re: Zinc
a lurching lolloping groove of stumbling garage moves and brevitous kraut chug and unweedy rough traderry. if an austrian wrong-brained man-mental had locked the fall, swell maps and link wray in his hell-cellar and forced them to incestuously breed for generations what would come crawling out of this depraved bodily fluid soaked primal soup would be the knockouts Cows Are Just Food
effortlessly joyful and it made me want to dance drunkenly around the room and nothing ever makes me want to dance, drunkenly or otherwise Wonderful Wooden Reasons
Very possibly the best album released in 2009.....a wonderful collision of sparkling garagey rock with a real groove-based pop mentality. .... like a boxer who dances as he punches your lights out...... It's like the best bits of The Monkees, Neu, The Fall and Link Wray, with only the most minimal vocals on a couple of tracks........ let a little suncream into your life. Dazzling. Dave Gilmour's cat
a listenable fusion of sorts that doesn't annoy but just sounds like pure goodness. For fans of Devo, The Cramps, At the Drive in and Vhs or Beta this may just be the listen you have been waiting for Punk Rock, Hardcore and Ska Music Resource n Review
'The Knockouts are to Luton what the pier is to Southend; grand, essential, inextricably moored to its locale, yet severely in need of maintenance and attention. The new album is by turns thrilling, jubilant and life-affirming.'
and devotee of Rossi's famous Ice Cream
acousticatory marvel that is born from the drone of High Town and shaped in the delicate, some may say featherlike, fingers of The Knockouts Paul Curry, PDM Music
Each good album should start with a tune like Test Signal Michael (Cologne)
Knockouts new album / Is Honolulu Suncream. / It's really not bad Luton Haiku
Is it a bit like The Birthday Party meets Suicide meets Gallon Drunk? The title suggests it. Although i would have preferred Honolulu Sunscream. James Turner
Well done. Billy Childish
Not as good as the last album, to be honest. You need some new ideas. DJ Crazy Fish
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The Foreign Sounds of The Knockouts cd (High Town, 2008)
Demos and improvisations - available from our shop, or download.
Intro (Foreign Sounds) / Hostel California / Indiscipline #32 / Previous Business /
Sunshine Bug / The Plough / Trabant Cop Squad / Farmyard Massacre / Slab Techn. / Brooding Habits / The Golden Age of Rock and Roll / D-Zug #1
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The Very Special World of The Knockouts cd (Topplers / High Town, 2008)
Studio recording - available from Topplers
Mit V Hlave Jako Vymetano / The Interceptor / Audrey / A Baby / Fresno Trucks /
Ibiza Foam Party / Thoroughfare / Dum Maro Dum (version) /
Neil Diamond Tribute Night / Stomping Normal / Butance GC
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RT cd (unknown label, 2007)
Compilation produced for Danke Reutlingen festival, November 2007
NO LONGER AVAILABLE
Mit V Hlave Jako Vymetano / The Pranny / Elephant House / Aaj Mausum Beimann Bada / Crosby's Poncho / Devil's A.D.V.O.C.A.A.T. / The Low Countries / Thoroughfare / Stomping Normal / Dum Maro Dum (remix) / Firebrand
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The Remarkable Sounds of India, 7" vinyl single (Topplers / High Town, 2007)
Studio recordings with guest vocals, in Hindi, by Mick Sheridan; available from Topplers
Dum Maro Dum / Nain Milarkar Chain Churana / Aaj Mausum Beimann Bada /
53rd and 3rd
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Top Ten 004, 7" vinyl single (Topplers, 2006)
Studio recordings; available from Topplers
D-Zug / El Problemo / Husband Material
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Luton 'Filmstock' Festival - 2006 cassette (unknown label, 2006)
Live recording; VG- quality - no longer available
Pranny / Government Bhang Shop / El Rinon Picante / Anthem for Tuscany /
Soul Communicator / D-Zug / A Baby / ???? / £2,250
plus Bhang Eliminator (demo 20.5.04) /
Ballard of a nad-mouthing ex-Druggies (French single) / Brooding Habits (9.12.01) / Sunshine Bug (Aug.2003) / www. moments (demo)
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System One cd (High Town, 2005)
Studio recordings - available from the shop and by downloads from iTunes etc
Government Bhang Shop / Gunslinger / Maison d-Etre / D-Zug / Cocktail Hour /
The Peeper / Husband Material / Anthem for Tuscany / No Trainers / El Problemo / £2300
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The Romance of Engineering cd (High Town, 2003)
Mainly studio recordings - contact elliotpsmoke then @ then aol.com for availability.
The Pranny / Harmful Ray's / Citoborma 150 / The Low Countries / Monsieur Savoureux / Big Game Player / Cervantes Disco / The Chicken Incident / Bacon Boy / Black-Eyed Face / Devil's A.D.V.O.C.A.A.T. / Absinthe Mornings / They're Coming! / Firebrand /
Last of the Majorcans
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Mr Side-toSide cd (High Town, 2003 - given away with Clod ed 16)
Mainly home recordings and demos - contact elliotpsmoke then @ then aol.com for availability.
Harmful Ray's / Firebrand / Like Monkeys / Strikeout / Bad Vibes / Crosby's Poncho /
Hit the Gravel, Sister / Brooding Habits / The Romance of Engineering / Elephant House / Ransome Notes / A.D.V.O.C.A.A.T.
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Cannibal Lounge cd (High Town, 2002)
Studio recording - available from our shop
Soul Communicator / Goal / El Rinon Picante / Monkey Mantra / Driving Range/The Eyes / Eraser / Release the Pigs / Ransom Note/How the Others Half Live / Mexico / Low Five / The Viper / KO Theme / W. Moments
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Gaol EP 7" vinyl single (High Town, 2001)
Studio recordings; available from Topplers
Treble Sound / El Rinon Picante/Hell / Mexico
GIGS we have done Complete-ish.
19.8.11 Luton Aid (40 other acts over 2 days); Hat Factory
11.6.11 Luton High Town Fun Day, People's Park
with Konni Deppe and Doug and the Chameleons
30.5.11 Luton Carnival PDM stage, Wardown Park
5.5.11 Luton Hat Factory (with Rubby Cindy, Alone Trooper)
19.3.11 Luton Castle (with Third Law)
14.10.10 Luton Hat Factory (with Giant Haystacks, DJ Crazy Fish, Colossal Youth)
19.3.10 Luton George II (with The Eyes in the Heat)
27.2.10 Luton UBSU Sub Club (with UK Decay, The Adenoids, The Assault)
19.2.10 Luton High Town Community Centre Beer Festival (with Giant Haystacks)
4.12.09 Luton Black Horse (with Giant Haystacks)
24.10.09 Luton Hat Factory (with Pearl Handled Revolver, Beta Boy, Semi-Skimmed)
23.10.09 Luton George II (with The Van Kleef)
6.6.09 Luton George II (with BCS Entertainments, The Drunken Gentlemen)
28.5.09 Luton Hat Factory (with Black Time, Beta Boy)
29.8.08 Exeter Tiggas Bar (with Noise Annoys Simon and Console)
4.7.08 Luton Charlie Browns (with The Beat)
21.6.08 Llanwrda Community Hall (with Simon Goalpost and others;
for Mick and Julie)
12.6.08 Luton Hat Factory
14.2.08 Luton George II (with Tyke Tyler Band)
3.11.07 Reutlingen Zelle - Danke Reutlingen festival (with Sumpfpapste, Stragula, Handsome Polly, Junge Gebraucht and others)
21.7.07 Luton High Town Community Centre (with John Hegley and DJ Crazyfish)
18.1.07 London Brixton Windmill (with The Winners)
5.1.07 Luton Hat Factory (with Shrug, Noise Annoys Simon and DJ Crazyfish)
11.11.06 London Highbury Buffalo Bar (with Keith, Coin-Op and Montana Pete)
9.11.06 London Peckham Montagu Arms (with The Gimps and Ferox)
28.9.06 London Hoxton Corn Rocket Club (with Black Time)
25.5.06 Luton Filmstock Market Hill (with Dylan Howe, The Occasion)
21.3.06 Luton Hat Factory (with Over Easy)
25.2.06 Harlow Square (with Pilots of Japan, Keith John Adams Trio)
29.10.05 Bishops Stortford Half Moon (with Keith John Adams Trio, Pilots of Japan)
13.10.05 Wolverton Madcap Theatre (John Peel evening with Straight Curve and Jig)
10.6.05 St Albans Oaklands College (private show)
28.4.05 Luton Hat Factory (with Terry Edwards and the Scapegoats)
11.9.04 London Highbury Buffalo Bar (with Free French, Stuffy and the Fuses)
19.3.04 Luton, The Well (with DJ Crazy Fish)
26.2.04 London Hackney Road, 291 Gallery
13.2.04 London Kentish Town, The Verge (with Culture Industry, The Ejector Seat)
13.9.03 Luton The Well, Melting Pot
25.2.02 London KentishTown Bull and Gate (with Oil Red O and Birdhouse)
16.11.01 London Shoreditch On The Rocks, Rhythm Hive
29.8.01 London Kentish Town Bull and Gate (with I'm Being Good, The Oedipus)
26.5.01 London Highbury Garage New Rock’n’Roll All-Dayer (with Ten Benson, Beachbuggy, Los Nachos, Dig Dag, Dog, Channel 6, Morbius & Starfighter X)