BEERZONE "Against The Flow" LP

Overview : Hold on to your pint glass 'cos here's the eagerly awaited first all new studio album in 3 years from England's latest Streetpunk sensation featuring 15 more lager-drenched & hard-hitting tunes. Without a doubt their best release yet, full of the snotty, tuneful Punk Rock that you expect from this British band. The songs range from topics like prohibition to pop rock legend Michael Jackson's problems with the law. Pressed on clear blue vinyl.

Tracklisting : Against The Flow / Stupid Little Man / Bryza / Web Of Lies / Don't Give A Fuck / Life's Too Short / Can't You See / Ha Ha Ha / Neighbours / Dead And Gone / Simple Simon / Come On / No Point / Trolley Dolly / Stuck In Here

MP3 : Against The Flow

Biography : Formed in early 1997 with the sole intention of making fun of the current dreadful UK music scene and to give the local music scene a kick up the bollocks/wake-up call as it was dominated by pop/pap, boybands, drums and techno. The band first played live in July 1997 and since then have played around 250 gigs across Europe and the USA with a host of bands including Stiff Little Fingers, The Exploited, Cock Sparrer, UK Subs, Test-Tubes, GBH, Anti-Nowhere League, Sham 69, The Damned, Murphy's Law as well as two US tours with The Business and Dropkick Murphys.
They originally started for a bit of fun with most of the songs being written about our mates. We never imagined it would get out of our own town never mind the places we have been. We were offered a recording deal at our second show which startled us as we only had about 10 songs and things just seem to have gone on from there with our third single Gazza Gazza receiving airplay in around 20 countries as well as plays on the BBC World Service and being played at Middlesboro and Newcastle Utd's football matches. The band's debut album They Came, They Saw, They Conquered has received favourable reviews in a host of top magazines including Kerrang who, with weekly sales of around 35-40,000, have given the band great coverage, and on top of this they also reviewed the bands first headline London show, a huge success, at the Underworld in Camden giving the band a very good review. In the USA the album has received dozens of very favourable reviews including in the heavyweight Punk mags, Maximum Rock'n'Roll and Flipside.
The band were signed to Flat/TKO Records as a result of a highly successful U.S. debut at a two day Punk fest in Kansas City. "We were approached by the mighty Dropkick Murphys at the Holidays In The Sun festival in England. They own Flat Records and have joined forces with the very well established and reputable San Francisco label, TKO."
Check out the band's Website at www.beerzone.net

Reviews : don't just take our word for it, read what the critics are saying about Beerzone...
»»» "Third album from the Beerzone boys and it’s slightly different from the last stuff I heard by ‘em. You still get the humorous lyrics and catchy tunes but the overall impression on this album is a more pissed off band. Somebody somewhere has done one on the band and they are letting them know in no uncertain terms. For those of you who have never heard Beerzone you really are missing out, old-school Punk along the lines of P.T.T.B. with better lyrics. The band can run out a good tune and reading the lyrics made me chuckle and feel old in equal measure, listen to Web Of Lies and Life’s Too Short to see what I mean. All in all another good album from a good band."  (Punk & Oi! In The UK)
»»» "Beerzone are an un-fresh breath of boozy air to review. Having caught them several times by accident I have always enjoyed their raucous live shows. They have been cranking out their piss-taking brand of Streetpunk since 1997, and on this their third official album they've upped the ante in terms of the of their songs and their production. Combining the best parts of Stiff Little Fingers and The Business and good old fashioned 80's Streetpunk, you can almost smell the booze and sweat of a gig filled with leather jackets and mohawks. With songs like Web Of Lies about pulling on the Internet and Ha Ha Ha about Michael Jackson that includes the lyrics 'his face is full of plasticene and what he does is so obscene', you can't help but smile."  (Big Cheese)
»»» "Musically, they have developed into a tight little unit …This is a good solid Streetpunk album with some beautiful Menace-like guitar and stomping, meaty choruses. …Beerzone have a potentially massive untapped audience outside of the punk scene."  (Record Collector)
»»» "This is good old-fashioned English Punk Rock with lots of singalong choruses. Most of the songs are mid-tempo pogo speed which reminds me a bit of The Adicts and Peter & The Test Tube Babies. The record is really good and they are a great live band as well."  (Hit List)
»»» "England's Beerzone have come up with quite possibly the most searing Punk Rock battle hymn since God Save The Queen on their second release. The 14 track Punk scorcher contains some good old-fashioned sneering Punk that sounds as if it was dug up from a 1977 time-capsule but the clincher on this disc is the title track of the album, a rally call that we all need to adhere to if we want to rid the world of musical mediocrity forever. For a Punk Rock shot in the arm, look no further than Beerzone's three chord gem."  (Skratch magazine)

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