Towers Of London - Air Guitar Video

Towers Of London
Air Guitar
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Hairspray savvy 5 piece Towers Of London are set to recently release the single 'Air Guitar'. These boys have been stirring up quite a scene overhere in the UK for the past 12 months but now it's time for them to be introduced to the US.

It's a very comfortable world for guitar rock, now embraced by Sunday supplements and Mercury awards. The establishment likes guitar music as long as it's indie; it's like "hold" music for the new millennium. All very polite, very well meaning, very college. It's not likely you'll get to see some full on, in your face, rock 'n' roll danger, something a bit loose and chaotic.

The Towers of London, don't seem to care. The band's in your face rawk ugliness and over the top posing is why they get all those "They can't play, what do they think they're wearing?" comments. But, you know, they really don't care. The London five piece spit attitude. They hit the stage like Motley Crue mashed up with the Sex Pistols. They play short sharp shock-troop songs and f**k off. The singer does all the Iggy moves but on speed, stomps along the bar and climbs around the furniture- it's fantastic, fuck you theatre and the rest of the band's rock-n-roll droogs pump out the martial rock-n-roll beats behind him.

It's a thrilling, dirty, lascivious, downright nasty exhibition of surly, strutting, in your face rock-n-roll attitude, and it's backed up with stomping slices of glam punk action. They used to be called The Tourettes; a post-Manics rock-n-roll rush, and their early pics looked like a gang of Richie Edwards on a glam punk night out. Since then the hair's grown and they've morphed into a feral poodle permed rock beast, but still retained some of that Manics edge in their sloganed vests. There is some method in their madness. Not much though.

Towers of London are:
Donny Tourette - Vocals
Dirk Tourette - Rhythm
The Rev - Lead
Tommy - Bass
Snell - Drums