Band Info
Vinyl Solution snared a bunch of cool bands in the late 80's, most of them either originally from or still based in Ippo Rock City as it goes, Stupids, Bad Dress Sense, Space Maggots, Perfect Daze, Frankfurter, quite the nifty collection. So anyway, people drifted between bands, guested on each other's records and generally had fun, and eventually four nimrods from some of these bands mutated into Lovejunk at the start of the 90's. Since then these palookas have also been in Chocolate, Fun City, the Rists and have continued their occasional hardcore band the Coolest Retards, but still they've never stopped being in Lovejunk, releasing the 'Dare To Be Wrong' 12" and 'All We Have To Do Is Stay Together' 7" as well as appearing on a load of comps and touring w/ their pals like Mega City Four, Senseless Things, Snuff, Les Thugs and more. Never ones for the easy life, Lovejunk endured a few years of problems, records not coming out til the tour was over, a drummer getting ill and finally having to leave, vans breaking and deals falling through, but things started to happen again when they recorded a Peel Session and appeared on one of High Society's cool British Punk Invasion comps, leading them into an ill-fated (and absurdly typical) deal w/ Phoenix records, where our zeros recorded a full CD, sat around on promises waiting for it to come out and then heard that the label had gone bust. Maybe it's stubbornness. Maybe belief in what they're doing. More likely it's blind stupidity. Whatever, Lovejunk could have just thought 'fuck this' and called it a day, but having decided the options were either keep going or just spend the rest of their lives watching TV and developing unhealthy crushes on soap stars they stuck w/ it, played some of their patent ragged but rocking shows, got on some more comps and were finally rescued by the good people at Crackle, all of which brings us to Tribulations, Lovejunk's brand new CD. Taped in Norwich in the middle of June (average studio temperature - 90 degrees), Tribulations is a punchy and powerful example of what Lovejunk are good at, fast catchy songs, poppy melodies and crunching guitars, mixing up their Replacements, Ramones, Husker Du, Descendents and early Soul Asylum influences into a good time sonic blast that people have recently described as being like Weezer on speed.So if it's rock and roll ruined by stupid ska parts, crappy heavy metal that calls itself 'hardcore' to try and sell records to people under 35, droning emo garbage made by people too scared to drink beer or any of that other fashionable bland faddery that yr looking for then sorry, keep looking. If you want some short, fast and memorable tunes where guitars scuzz and howl, drums pound and out front there's a singer who can actually sing then Lovejunk could well be the band you need to host yr next keggers party. So pour yourself another large one, spin Tribulations and you know, get a little fun into your life.