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"Guitar Slingers"

GUITAR SLINGERS
‘Six String Bandit’
(Sling 2)

Doyley and all-star mates cover some classics.
4/5

This the follow-up to last year’s Guitar Slingers collaboration is an on-going project as Diablo head-honcho Doyley continues to record any rockin’ luminary that gravitates anywhere near his studio. To list all of the above that appear on this CD would be lazy reviewing but they do include Koefte (Mad Sin), Liz (Deadline), Nigel Lewis, and Jeroen Hammers (Batmobile) as well as some of the best instrumentalists in the current rockin’ scene. This album is excellent in its own right as by its very nature this time the material is pretty much all cover versions so in content is slight weaker than the barnstorming previous one, but don’t that put you off, these are great artists reworking classic tracks, album three is already underway so watch this space.
Simon Nott
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- Big Cheese Magazine


"One man freakshow"

One Man Freakshow
(Sling)
5/5
Doyley and pals come up with one hell of a rockin’ record.

The Guitar Slingers have come up with one of the rockin’ releases of 2008. This can only be described as relentless. What started out as a solo project for well-respected Klingonz guitarist Doyley developed into so much more. The multi-instrumentalist has gathered together some luminaries of the Psychobilly and Punk scene to enhance the already impressive tracks he put down himself. The bass playing is ferocious and pounds the whole thing along like and out of control steam hammer while guitar lick after guitar lick stoke the flames and up the tempo. Just when one knee trembling rockin’ riff of the highest order has left you breathless another one clobbers you and takes it to a higher level. The guests on the album keep the tracks eclectic while the style remains out and out high speed rockin’. This will leave you with begging for mercy and for more all at the same time, I can’t recommend this enough, I’m almost too knackered to type just listening to it.
Simon Nott - Big Cheese Magazine


"ROCKABILLY MAGAZINE #44"

ROCKABILLY MAGAZINE #44 REVIEW
by
DC Larson
 
 
Editor's CD Wallet
 
Guitar Slingers
"One Man Freakshow" (self)
 
I recall once reading an interview with a director of the 1960s Batman TV program. He explained that cameras filming that show's fight scenes were always tilted, so as to convey that 'something unnatural was happening.'
 
This entire CD is tilted. And something unnatural is definitely happening on it.
 
Unnatural, but at the same moment, searing and significant. Galloping guitar rage and reeling, rebellion-for-the-hell-of-it attitude are deliriously off-balanced by eerie theremin and echoing atmospherics. Haunted rock'n'roll.
 
"Not right," as Iggy once sang. And yet, this is more right than any psychotherapeutic
text might define.
 
Despite the band title, this really is the issue of one man. Doyley, ex-Krewman and Demented Are Go contributor (2005's "Hellbilly Storm"), impresses with many talents:
singer, songwriter, guitar/bass/organ/ukelele/theremin/piano player. He even handles various studio-board tasks.
 
To be sure, his barbarous accomplices are legion. Drummer Johnny Gizmo perpetuates an unfaltering firing-line assault throughout. And the many ace-high guest players include fellow-DAG/"Hellbilly Storm" contributor Strangy and neon-crimson-mohawked slap bassman Yasu, of Robin.
 
But this is Doyley's show. As lyricist, he avoids the path trod by others in the genre, who tend to limit narratives to night-stalking zombies and similarly morbid fantastics. True, chest-beating braggadocio makes appearances, as is common in psychobilly wildings (fine examples here include "Fists Up" and "I Win You Lose," both of which storm with full-bodied ruckus).
 
"One Man Freakshow" offers deeper reward, indulging authorial introspection, sentimentality, and even self-criticism.
 
Not 'smarter than psycho.' Smart AND psycho.
 
Urged on by an insistently pounding bassline and awash in reverbed guitar, the title track declares definitional self-awareness and a sneering drawing of social boundaries: "I'm me, and you're you/So, I got tattoos and a weird hairdo."
 
Several nitro-blooded cuts later, "I Ain't No Clown" begins as a rampaging roar of defiance only to end in self-mockery, conceding the point (the villain being too much "clown juice").
 
The stirring and majestically driven "Final Call" turns sentimental soil foreign to the average psycho, relating against commanding outburst an 'in memorium' ode to two passed. (The CD notes observe, "'Final Call' is in memory of Paddy Noonan and Frankie Hayes. RIP.")
 
So, "One Man Freakshow" stands apart from the psycho mob with its auto-awareness and multi-emotional ventilations. But it is of a part with same in its dedication to and fulfillment of the furious and boisterous stitched animal that is psychobilly.
 
This is the doomsday-rocketing, metallic guitar psycho that resounds in the living death midnight, the uncanny existence that throws back its flaming skull and howls its homicidal epithets at the full and bloody moon.
 
Besides its previously enumerated recommendations -- the self-examination and humor, the thundering onslaught -- "One Man Freakshow" spotlights a new title-holder. Doyley
coins character as Psychobilly Guitar Hero of 2008. His serrated assertions and lightning flashes are not largely confined in arrangements to prescribed spots, but thread through entire songs, articulating melodic consistency and imbuing each with vivid and live-wire pyrotechnics that are organic to the madness.
 
This is abundantly so in bone-rattler "Like A Rocket" and in the disc's closer, the instrumental (save for a sampled Michael Keaton) "Johnny Dangerously." Doyley and Gizmo tear rashly and at light-speed through a mini-epic of raucous hitrionics and breathless dynamics, leaving none unviolated.
 
So, yes, something unnatural is happening. And even though Batman might not dig it, you know damn well that the Joker would.
 
myspace.com/guitarslingers
 
6 STARS

- Rockabilly magazine USA


Discography

One Man Freakshow
Six String Bandit

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Guitar Slingers are a 4 piece Psychobilly/Rockabilly Surf band from UK/France

Doyley the founder member of the band was/is a guitarist for:

Klingonz, Demented Are Go, Dead Kings, Celtic Bones, Nigel Lewis & The Zorchmen,The Deltas, Spellbound and a shitload more! He is also a producer & engineer and owns Diablo Studios and Diablo Records UK which has recorded some great Psychobilly & Rockabilly bands to date.

The Guitar Slingers project started about 4 years ago and with help from a lot of friends Doyle put together his debut album "One Man Freakshow" It received 5/5 from Big cheese Mag and 5***** from Rockabilly Mag USA. It was 13 original tracks writtin by himself & Strangy, and a lot of help from top bass player and friend Fantomas! He still didnt have a band together just the tracks put down from my studio so he called in help from guitar assassian Jean Mi-hell, Gaybaul on drums! and together with Fantomas on bass they had the Guitar Slingers line up for gigs.

During this time the 2nd album was recorded "Six String Bandit" 13 tracks of mostly cover songs and more guests on it than you can shake a stick at receiving 4/5 in the mighty Big Cheese mag reviewed by Simon Nott, they done a short Finnish tour and then an open air festival in Spain. They had a slight lineup change as Fantomas moved to USA so Karl stood in to do a short German tour and Simon Farrell for the French tour supporting the famous Sanserveno.