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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nInitially formed back around 2011\/12 as a vehicle for Dirt Box Disco guitarist and songwriting supremo Spunk Volcano to air the tunes he\u2019d written that didn\u2019t really fit with the day job (although some might argue some actually do fit \u2013 especially after Weab made off to pastures new) I now find myself in possession of Eruptions\u2019 album number SIX, and I\u2019m left thinking, where did the time go eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s because this time around we\u2019re all going down the \u2018Knackers Yard\u2019 as the band prepares to take a well-deserved break after their decade long burst of creativity and insanity. That\u2019s right, it\u2019s a break, they\u2019re not splitting up, just pressing pause on the \u2018TV God\u2019 remote control whilst Spunk and Maff concentrate on the next Dirt Box Disco record, Joey goes off to work with MeMe Detroit and Scott \u201callegedly\u201d goes back to being a full-time serial killer and Faxe drinker. It\u2019s certainly been a prolific (and most excellent) run of releases to date though (let\u2019s not forget the 5 EPs the band also released during this time too) with many stone-cold Eruptions classics written along the way. The bazillion dollar question I guess your wondering though, is does \u2018Knackers Yard\u2019 provide the fitting finale (for now)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, the immediate thing that hits me about \u2018Knackers Yard\u2019 is that after the more melodic leaning \u2018Barry Milner Is Thick\u2019 album from 2020 this time around a large proportion of the tunes once again lean more towards the darker\/heavier side of Mr Volcano\u2019s songwriting portfolio and there are a few tunes on here that could have easily been part of the hard as nails \u2018Double Bastard\u2019 album, with opener \u2018I Am A Capsule\u2019 complete with its UK82 guitar riff and \u201cFuck Off Leave Me Alone\u201d gang vocal as good a place to start as any. Likewise, \u2018Madhouse\u2019 (or should that be \u201cFooking Madhouse\u201d?) which whilst not being a cover of a certain tune by a legendary NYC thrash band, could very easily have come out of that scene, complete with a monster chugger of a riff and mid-section that flies off in all directions and is held together by a potty mouthed Spunk chorus that somehow also manages to twist and turn its way into a super catchy second chorus too. Genius stuff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And therein lies the real appeal of Spunk Volcano & The Eruptions for me though, because whilst \u2018It\u2019s All Kicking Off\u2019 and the sublime \u2018My Tears Get Washed Away\u2019 (which somehow manages to make me think of both Wolfsbane and Showaddywaddy in the same 3 minutes run time) are the type of \u201csing your heads off\u201d top-quality tunes that Spunk has become renowned for penning at a truly alarming rate. It\u2019s the polar opposites of the vicious \u2018Manky Man\u2019 and the sombre \u2018Dead And The Mirror\u2019 (yes that\u2019s keyboards you can hear) with its almost murder-ballad feel where The Eruptions truly stand apart from Dirt Box Disco. Likewise clock the the flawed brilliance of \u2018Mordrake\u2019 (which you have to hear to fully understand what I\u2019m on about) and then try and second guess what is up next? How about the kick in the coin purse that is \u2018Pit Bull Facelift\u2019, a song GBH would have been proud of writing back in their early Clay Records days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With \u2018Knackers Yard\u2019 Spunk Volcano takes the life experiences and the heart and soul that a decade of songwriting and touring offers a band and once again turns them into a dozen tracks that pack a punch so fierce, they will shock you to the core, and is that a little tear I feel welling in my eye as the forementioned \u2018Dead And The Mirror\u2019 segues into the CD only final track \u2018Shit Stirrers & Scaremongers\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With five final live shows booked running through June to September, which also see The Eruptions back to being a 5-piece once again as Tom returns on guitar, it\u2019s no time to be down in the mouth, as its time to party and get yourself down the \u2018Knackers Yard\u2019 when it\u2019s released via the band\u2019s own Avenue Recordz label on CD only (no vinyl this time) on July 1st<\/sup>. \u00a0You can also pre-order your copy right now, along with a rather wonderful-looking limited-edition T-shirt from the link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s only one way to give SV & The Eruptions a proper send-off, and that\u2019s by booking your trip to the \u2018Knackers Yard\u2019. We\u2019re all going, are you???<\/p>\n\n\n\n Buy Her<\/a>e<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n website<\/a> \/ Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Initially formed back around 2011\/12 as a vehicle for Dirt Box Disco guitarist and songwriting supremo Spunk Volcano to air the tunes he\u2019d written that didn\u2019t really fit with the day job (although some might argue some actually do fit \u2013 especially after Weab made off to pastures new) I now find myself in possession […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[6030,95,7743,3101],"class_list":["post-18971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-avenue-recordz","tag-dirtbox-disco","tag-knackers-yard","tag-sv-the-eruptions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971","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=18971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18973,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18971\/revisions\/18973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}