{"id":12853,"date":"2020-08-04T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12853"},"modified":"2020-08-02T12:31:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T12:31:22","slug":"kerbdog-announce-reissues-of-self-titled-debut-on-the-turn-out-november-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12853","title":{"rendered":"KERBDOG ANNOUNCE REISSUES OF SELF-TITLED DEBUT & “ON THE TURN” OUT NOVEMBER 6TH"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe cult Irish alt-rock quartet, Kerbdog, have today announced that they have teamed up with Hassle Hindsight, the recently launched\u00a0re-issue label from the team at Hassle Records, to re-release their 1994 self-titled debut and its heralded\u00a01997 follow-up “On The Turn”, their last full studio album\u00a0before their first break-up in 1998.<\/p>\n

Despite a small handful of re-union shows\u00a0over the last decade, working on\u00a0new material and putting out a live record, “Congregation”, released to acclaim in 2014, the setlists for those shows have been\u00a0almost entirely made up with songs from their\u00a0much-revered\u00a0two 90’s albums.<\/p>\n

“On The Turn” \u2013 which was recorded with Garth Richardson at the legendary Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California \u2013 was a near perfect album, one that front-man Cormac Battle most recently described as “the right album, at the wrong time”. Their 1994 self-titled debut was recorded with Jack Endino, the producer of Nirvana’s “Bleach”, at Rockfield Studios, with Sepultura recording Chaos A.D. at the same time next door. Cormac says of their raw debut record: “I think some of what they were doing seeped into what we were doing. It made the record heavier and more chunky than we intended, but we were happy with the results.”<\/p>\n

The band’s songs were powerful and\u00a0inspired – like those early Dave Grohl songs\u00a0of the same era\u00a0– by the likes of Husker Du, and then Bob Mould’s subsequent work in Sugar; both direct and melodic, heavy but immediate. Kerbdog were, to many, their new favourite band.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

However the explosive success\u00a0of Britpop meant that their singles were at odds with daytime radio playlists and the mainstream press of the time, seeing them\u00a0subsequently dropped by Mercury Records, two albums into a six-album contract. They struggled on for a year before playing their final show in Dublin the following year.<\/p>\n

While the band looked initially\u00a0destined\u00a0to reside in\u00a0the footnotes of rock history, their fan base unexpectedly grew and their albums, while out of print, seemed to find their way into the homes of determined rock fans. Recently an LP copy of “On The Turn” went for an eye-watering\u00a0\u00a3300 online.<\/p>\n

The attendances for their reunion shows\u00a0– often five times the amount of people they played to while touring “On The Turn” – and the clear interest from people in hearing these records again inspired long-term fans Hassle to assist the band, and who will be releasing\u00a0the records complete with their original artwork and liner notes.<\/p>\n

Cormac says of the reissues: \u201cIt\u2019s truly humbling to be bringing out the two Kerbdog albums on vinyl. They\u2019re for the fans who\u2019ve supported us from the beginning and vindicated those albums across the years, for those who came on board after we thought the albums were dead and buried and also for ourselves \u2013 mainly because I have only one copy of the\u00a0On The Turn<\/em>\u00a0LP and I can\u2019t afford to pay the extortionate prices on eBay!\u201d<\/p>\n

Pre-order “Kerbdog” and “On The Turn”\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cult Irish alt-rock quartet, Kerbdog, have today announced that they have teamed up with Hassle Hindsight, the recently launched\u00a0re-issue label from the team at Hassle Records, to re-release their 1994 self-titled debut and its heralded\u00a01997 follow-up “On The Turn”, their last full studio album\u00a0before their first break-up in 1998. Despite a small handful of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5543],"class_list":["post-12853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kerbdog","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12858,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12853\/revisions\/12858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}