The 2012 Summer Festival was a blast, with gigs for kids, hipsters, outdoors and indoors, workshops, and we gave away an amazing recording prize to the amazing Alcohotlicks.
1. Hot In Hell
2. Drag
3. Buddy Ol' Pal
4. Down Town
5. Blue
6. Sad Song
7. Here Come The Alcohotlicks
8. Dang Dang
9. Hey Man, Yeah Man
10. I'll Tell You Tomorrow
The following review by John Shand is reproduced from The Sydney Morning Herald
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The Alcohotlicks's twin-guitar attack marauded from country rock to crunching rock via surf music and R&B, with hair-raising flair
Their brilliantly grotesque amalgam of grunge rock and jazz confounds the purists, being too grungy for the jazzers and too weird for the rockers. Yet they have the advantage of being able to get gigs in both camps.
Their weirdness as a rock act is compounded by the fact that they have neither a singer nor a bass player: just two guitars and Evan Mannell's pounding drums. Nor do Hauptmann and Flower strike any of the poses that go with rock-guitar territory.
Hot In Hell
Here Come The Alcohotlicks
The Alcohotlicks - Buddy Ol' Pal - at the Vanguard, Sydney.
More Info:
The Alcohotlicks are a Sydney based band formend in the later part of 2002 featuring 1st & 2nd place winners at the 2007 Wangaratta Festival of Jazz, National Jazz Awards, Aaron Flower and Ben Hauptmann. The instrumentation of the band is unique comprising of two electric guitars and drummer, Evan Mannell. The first two years were spent writing and performing in the local Sydney Jazz scene.
The Alcohotlicks have written over thirty compositions for the band and have released two self produced live recordings. The Alcohotlicks will be releasing their first studio album entitled 'You,You' (Jazzgroove Records) on the 29th of Oct at The Basement in Sydney, 31st of Oct in Brisbane at the Powerhouse with other capital cities TBA. In late 2007 The Alcohotlicks were commissioned by ABC classic FM to record a feature for Jazztrack with Mal Stanley. Performance highlights include: the Jazz:Now festival - Sydney Opera House 2004 & 2008, Stonington Jazz festival - Melbourne 2005, and they featured at the 2007 Wangarratta Festival of Jazz.
