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Released: Monday 24th May 2010
CD / DL

Armellodie Records is thrillered(!) to present a ghoulish tune-wielding trio emanating from the bowels of central Scotland, Super Adventure Club, and their new album Avoid Zombies.

Twisting and turning like a shaolin monk, throwing melodies and riffary like deadly throwing stars, matching each digression with zen-like focus on memorable hooks.  By day they are Bruce, Mandy and Neil. By night they are the deadly spazz-jazz ninjas known only as Super Adventure Club.

If you are one of those avid music lovers that feel so inclined to fit everything you hear into a neat little musical box, possibly so you can employ the use of hierarchical tree charts and Venn diagrams to describe the exact specific classification of a bands chosen genre, then Super Adventure Club might fry your brain, just a bit. You can’t doubt the chops on these Zappa-esque wah-wobbling zombies.

From the opening ballistic post-hardcore attacks of Hip Hop Hot Pot Pot Noodle, a tale of endurance, quips and circumstance. When our lovable super club found themselves squatting in an over crowded flat that Kim and Aggie wouldn’t dare tread for fear of catching chronic-waster-disease. There’s only really one question they could ask once the deluge of marijuana smoke had cleared, “What happened!?”

Pick Up Sticks attempts to bring a touch of sanity to the proceedings with its hip-swinging groove gleefully referencing Steve MacQueen and Dustin Hoffman, “Papillon is building a raft!” The song is a call to all those who think their dead end job, or greyish expanse they call home is the be all end all. Hell bent on being grown ups, when a year turned into two years turned into ten years. Some who’ve never stopped dreaming, and some who have clearly forgotten all about life’s rich tapestry.

Lead vocalist Bruce Wallace is equally at home wailing like an unhinged lunatic, not least on Nosferatu where the band put the foot-down and provide their own unique critique of F.W Murnau’s 1922 film of the same name, Mark Kermode eat your heart out - “that’s a fake nose I can see it from here, and those joke-shop plastic fangs make you look like Alan Carr.” He’s also a master of the doleful Scottish croon on My Other Brain, arguably the most idiosyncratic song about thinking with your cock and the trouble it can get you in that you’re ever likely to hear.

Not ones to shy away from topical issues, Shiela’s Stabiliser Wheels, is a harmonious lament about sexism towards men in modern society, presented with a brief counter argument from a woman. Super Adventure Diplomacy.  Mandy Clarke takes the lead in the bands freeform-comic-book-romp SAC Attack, listing those chores one must not forget to do, like phoning your mum, making the tea, or feeding the cat but most importantly, one must always remember to avoid zombies!

Sticks-man Neil Warrack describes the albums pen-ultimate number and only instrumental, Think Like A Fish, as “an audio depiction of the dangers involved with ‘think-driving’.”  The band clearly revelling in following this ear-drum workout with a rhetoric warning on the pearls of Pointless Self Indulgence in all aspects of life.

Since their conception in 2007, Super Adventure Club have not only toured with Future of the Left, Danananakroyd and Japandroids but have also taken their blistering live show from Inverness to Cork to Bordeaux, and many hotspots in between. The band are regularly joined onstage by the horse-headed Johny B (this is not a joke - the man really has a horse's head), whose help has ensured that a clutch of well received shows have garnered a cult following all over the UK and into Europe. Not to mention ringing endorsements from Vivian Girls, Artrocker Magazine, and Vic Galloway (BBC Radio 1).

In George A. Romero’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead the cause of the zombie epidemic is believed to be from high-level radiation brought to the Earth from the Explorer Venus probe. We can only assume that the Super Adventure Club with their unique brand of unconventional and intelligent pop were exposed to these deadly emissions as well, and my God why couldn’t we all have been!

SUPER ADVENTURE CLUB - Pick Up Sticks

Thirty Pounds of Bone sings Chris T-T on an EP of cover versions released on Woodland Recordings. Songs by The Electric Soft Parade, Mary Hampton, The Great Park, Something Beginning With L, Le Reno Amps and Dive Dive also feature on this beautifully quiet and affectionate collection.
Available on limited CD at http://www.woodlandrecordings.com/RELEASES/WR046.html
More from Thirty Ponds of Bone at http://www.thirtypoundsofbone.bandcamp.com

WR046 - Thirty Pounds of Bone 'Ankles (Chris T-T)'

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SUPER ADVENTURE CLUB - Pick Up Sticks

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