Doyley & the Twanglords

Reverbatron   digital album

(Diablo Records)

Just as opening minutes flash walloping imagery of Venusian waves crashing green-sand shores -- while the Republic Robot shoots the single-digit salute to two-headed gremmies -- closer "Lost Soul" introduces Old Country accordian into fast-flung instro proceedings. Betwixt the two hurtle wordless wonders that explore just how far six-strings can go to unite Bikini Beach and Forbidden Planet.

Recommended: "Reverbatron," "MoonSurfer," "Il Monstro," "Badaboom," "Robostomp," "Lost Soul"

No related videos were available. But here's a fun interview from years ago.

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Rocky Road to Dublin   digital album

(Diablo Records)

Son of auld sod Doyley is exactly at home, amidst traditional airs smiled upon by comely Éiru. All stringed tools are handily plucked by the othertimes Psycho marauder. And his brogue calls up legions of hardy grandsires. May the road rise up to meet him.

Recommended: "Rocky Road to Dublin," "Wild Rover," "Tell Me Ma," "Craic at the Irish Rover," "Paddy O Doyle" 

No videos available, but here's Doyley/Shamcock's 2024 version of "Tell Me Ma"

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Guitar Slingers

Greatest Hits   Digital-only release

(Diablo Records)

This reviewer rushes when opportunities to tout personal favorites present themselves. And Guitar Slingers - Psychobilly berserkers with Gretsch-batterer Doyley hectoring at their fore - ricochet between that category's perimeters. Various co-conspirators popped in and exited through years covered, but Doyley and lunatic fury were ever constant. Thunderation laughs derisively at speed laws. Trace elements of Morricone and outer-space hijinx percolate with Rockabilly rampage. Roky Erickson's Dr. Rorsach would surely drop his drawings if confronted by this crooked-grinned, LOUD deluge.

Sam Phillips had no idea the extreme to which his chance breakthrough would one day hurtle.

Recommended: "Fuck You," "Boppin' 'n' Shakin'," "Babylon's Burnin'," "Seven Deadly Sins," "Ska Trek Krew," "Fly with the X-ray Eyes," "Django Il Bastardo" Alien Hooligans," "I Feel Psycho," "Geraldine," "Psycho Mad 'n' Proud," "Hellhouse Stomp," "Psycho Cop," "Rise of the Cybermen," "Never Steal the Devil's Wheels"

Videos: "Fuck You"   "Fly with the X-Ray Eyes" (live 2015)   "Geraldine" (live 2014)   "Rise of the Cybermen"

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Philip Doyle

Slingers Duo - Stayin' Alive   digital album

(Diablo Records)

Testament to the yowling pair's capacity is that they salvage "Stayin'Alive," the Bee Gees' atrocity that (at least in this precinct) always provoked regurgitation. One is floored by the spectacle of Philip Doyle's and Jeanmi Arnould's digits tearing up and down fretboards. Fold in their beer-hall voices thundering in jollification, and the admixture intoxicates.

Recommended: "Jim Dandy," "Seven Deadly Sins," "Big River," "Staying Alive," "I Love Rock'n'Roll," "Gone Gone Gone"

Video: "I Love Rock'n'Roll"  (Mecrin France)   private show (2:11)   tour promo (1:04)

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