Claw Boys Claw
Claw Boys Claw | |
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PIAS | |
Members | Peter te Bos John Cameron |
Past members | Allard Jolles Bobbie Rossini Marius Schrader Arno Kooy Geert de Groot Marc Lamb |
Website | www.clawboysclaw.nl |
Claw Boys Claw[1] are a Dutch band, formed in Amsterdam. The core members of the band are Peter te Bos (vocals) and John Cameron (guitar).[2] After some years of inactivity, the band started playing live again in 2007.
Claw Boys Claw never attained much commercial success, and a venture into the American market was unsuccessful.
Beginnings
Claw Boys Claw was founded in 1983 by guitarist Allard Jolles, at the time guitarist and singer of L'Attentat, though he played drums in his newly founded band. The original four members were Jolles, Peter Te Bos, John Cameron, and bassist Bobbie Rossini. Their "garage rock," as the Dutch termed it (a lo-fi mixture of rock and roll and punk), quickly gained popularity, and in 1984 the band releases their first album, Shocking Shades Of Claw Boys Claw, containing among others a cover of the song "Venus" by Shocking Blue. The album was recorded in three hours and cost 500 guilders (some $250 at the time), money the band had won in a talent show. While not a commercial success at the time, the album (which was reissued in 2008) was later called one of the best records in the history of Dutch pop music by Trouw.[3] Jolles leaves the band in May 1985 to focus on L'Attentat, and is replaced by Marius Schrader.[4]
The singles "So Mean" and "Indian Wallpaper" were successful in the
Hoping to reach a larger audience, the band performed at the New Music Seminar in New York in 1988, but success in the United States never came about. They met with John Cale, who was interested in producing the band's next album. Despite having built a great reputation as live-artists, the band were dropped by Polydor because of disappointing sales. The band subsequently released the album Hitkillers on the Megadisc label, an album consisting of Nederpop covers. In February 1989, Rossini and Schrader left the band and were replaced by Marc Lamb en Arno Kooy from The Agentz. Despite trouble with personnel and disappointing commercial success, the band's reputation seemed solid, and they were called one of the most prominent bands of the 1980s.[3]
Middle years
The Claw Boys Claw attempted a more accessible sound on Angelbite (1990). Rumors of a cooperation with John Cale had persisted, but Angelbite is produced by Steve Parker (who had worked with British band The Fall and Dutch singer Mathilde Santing), and recorded at ICP studios in Brussels. They played Parkpop in 1991, and Kooy was replaced by Geert de Groot (formerly of the Fatal Flowers). The Dutch press considered $uga[r] (1992) a highpoint for the band, and it established a style the band will follow on every album after, a circuitous and melodic "brooding swamp rock"[10] The album was recorded at Orkater studios in Amsterdam and produced by Magic Stick (Michel Schoots, of the Urban Dance Squad). The ballad "Rosie" was the band's first single to score in the Dutch Top 40,[11] and the song is still their best-known.[12]
In 1993 they played Pinkpop again and opened for
Rebirth, 25th anniversary
In the spring of 2006 the Claw Boys Claw were working on a new album and wanted to start touring again. According to Te Bos, he and Cameron had written some seventy songs since 2002,
Starting on November 16, 2007, the group played live shows again with a new line-up.
In honor of their 25th anniversary, on June 2, 2008, HipCat/PIAS Benelux released Shocking Shades Of Claw Boys Claw on CD, remastered with five additional tracks. Also reissued were $uga[r], with two additional tracks, Nipple, with three additional tracks, and Will-O-The-Wisp, with five additional tracks, all by EMI/Msi Music/Super D.
Members
Current members
- Peter te Bos - vocals (1983-now)
- John Cameron - guitar (1983-now)
Past members
- Allard Jolles - drums (1983–1985)
- Bobbie Rossini - bass (1983–1989)
- Marius Schrader - drums (1985–1989)
- Arno Kooy - bass (1989–1991)
- Geert de Groot - bass (1991-ca. 2000)
- Marc Lamb - Drums (1989-2010)
Touring musicians
- Jeroen Kleijn - drums (2012-now)
- Marcus Bruystens - bass (2007-now)
Discography
Albums
- Polydor, 1987; CD, Hipcat/PIAS 2008)
- Now! (live EP, 1985)
- With Love From The Boys(LP, Polydor, 1986)
- Claw Boys Claw 3 in 1 (compilation; LP, Polydor, 1987)
- Crack My Nut (LP/CD, Polydor, 1987)
- Hitkillers (LP, Megadisc, 1988)
- Hitkillers/The Beast Of Claw Boys Claw (compilation; CD, Megadisc, 1988)
- Angelbite (LP/CD, Solid, 1990)
- $uga(r) (CD, EMI, 1992)
- Nipple (CD, EMI, 1994)
- Will-O-The-Wisp (CD, EMI, 1997)
- PIAS, 2008)
- Hammer (CD, PIAS, 2013)
- It's not me, The horse is not me - Part 1 (CD/LP, 2018)
- Kite (LP/CD, Excelsior Recordings, 2021)
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