The Gay Blades
The Gay Blades are a "Trash Pop" duo from New York City. Signed to Triple Crown Records in March of 2008, they re-released their debut album "Ghosts" on September 23, 2008 and accompanied it with music videos for "N.H.D.N" and "O Shot". "O Shot" received significant airplay both on Alternative Radio as well as music television. Currently recording their second album with NYC producer Dean Baltulonis (The Hold Steady, Lissy Trullie, Goes Cube).
Press
NME: "Prepare to have your love defribulated by the raw, garagey sound of these two reprobates, strutting on to our airwaves with more saw-riffed swagger than a dog with two dicks and cougar's yowl. Clark Westfield and Puppy Mills are bad, bad men, and we love 'em"
My Old Kentucky Blog: "These guys are showmen with enough swagger, strut and snark to make the forefathers (Bowie/Mercury) of their genre proud."
Q Magazine: “Loud, gaudy, contagious”
Rock Sound: “Genuinely exciting genre-free music"
Day Trotter: "There's something sort of legendary and epic in the way that they can come off as being the equivalent of falling down drunk or high as a kite every single second of the time spent in their company. But they keep it all together when they're playing their glamorous, punk rock."
ArtRocker: "Big sounds, raw power and swagger..instantly catchy"
NYLON: "a very intriguing group, with major potential for an instant dance party whenever they hit the stage."
Drowned in Sound: "But really, at the end of the day 'Ghosts' is a completely mediocre record. It's got high-points, it's got low points, but really it just falls into a disagreeable, insufficient medium. At the best of times it's only good enough to forget that you're listening to it."
RCRDLBL: "These guys don’t exactly wear their influences on their sleeves, but saying they sound like Crazy Horse messing with some Stereolab noise wouldn’t be inaccurate"
CMJ Festival Guide: "If Freddie Mercury sang for Death From Above 1979, these guys would open the show."
The Guardian (UK): "We're not sure whether they're out to debunk or celebrate rock'n'roll by embracing it at its most extreme and ridiculous, but whatever it is they're doing, they're good at it"
Alternative Press: "Westfield and Mills hand out more head nods than should be legal for a band with only two heads; "Why Can't I Grow A Beard?" gets its David Bowie perennially stuck in its Brian Wilson, while "O Shot" ranks among the best songs the Arctic Monkeys never wrote"
The Village Voice: "The Blades' real deal is their swagger-soaked live show. The roof (and your eyebrows) will be raised. "
Info
- US Booking Agent: Justin Bridgewater at The Agency Group
- International Booking Agent: Ben Winchester at Primary Entertainment
- Label: Triple Crown Records // 4Never Records
- UK Label: Something In Construction
Discography
- 7" Split with Boy/Girl 4Never Records (2006)
- Ghosts - 4Never Records (2007)
- Ghosts - Triple Crown Records (2008)
- Alive at The Lanes DVD - 4Never Records (2009)
- 7" Split with Millions of Brazilians - 4Never Records(2009)
- LP2 - Triple Crown Records (2010)