The McDeath Trio
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"The McDeath Trio were great, they confirm my formerly stated theory that 'the smaller the drum kit, the better the band'...and they're the sort of band I'd like playing at my wedding. " - Skitster, commenting on our first gig at Scaledown on 25th Nov 2005 "Please could you play 'Too Drunk To Fuck' at my wedding?" - Skitster, a couple of days before we did indeed play at his wedding "...the embers of 'Mondo Wray' band The Charles Napiers reborn as a hyper stripped down instrumental bar band ... just bass, guitar, snare and cymbal. The punky, crunchy knowingness of the Napiers has been replaced by a nervy reverb-twang cool. And I, like most others of those present, loved it. Of course it seemed a fitting tribute to Link Wray too." - Richard Sanderson, commenting on our first gig at Scaledown on "I loved 'Work Song'. That was 'Work Song' wasn't it?" - Big Joe Louis "Could you play 'Rawhide' for Frankie Valli?" - Polite elderly gent at Oval Tavern gig. I think he meant Frankie Laine "This is certainly a band that believes in placing its own stamp firmly on whatever tune they playÂ…All are delivered at pretty high volume, but in beautifully laid-back way (the words "sinister" and "stripped down" do indeed spring to mind) that makes the McDeath Trio a pleasure to observe." - Hang Nine "That's a great guitar sound, that." "Yeah, what sort of guitar sound is it then?" "Err, well, it's, err, a guitar sound" - Two punters overhead chatting at the bar at Sunday Swingin' "They asked me if I wanted to play with them on their version of Harlem Nocturne tonight, but as I'm doing it in my set I told them to piss off" - Terry Edwards, shortly before playing a blistering Harlem Nocturne at the Orchestra Pit 26th Sept, 2008 "Red Right Hand makes a damned good surf guitar tune" - The Afterwardsness, having just watched us play a damned good sinister stripped down instrumental, not surf, version of RRH "The other half of the drumkit?" - Nifty Eagu, in response to the tagline of "a guitar, a bass and half a drumkit...what more do you need?" |
Previous Gigs
25/11/05: Scaledown, King & Queen, Fitzrovia with NINKI V 13/01/06: Live session on Scaledown Radio Show on Resonance FM 15/01/06: The Large Club, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club 12/03/06: The Large Club, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club 29/04/06: Private Party , Blackheath 04/06/06: The Large Club, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club 07/06/06: What's Cookin', The Sheepwalk, Leytonstone with STEVE HOOKER 23/09/06: Go Baby Go! at the Grosvenor, Brixton with NAKED RUBY 17/11/06: The Basement, MCPS-PRS, London W1 with Viv Youell, Jumped Up Madam, David Gunn, etc 09/12/06: The Prince Albert, Brighton with LOS FANTASTICOS 13/12/06: What's Cookin', The Sheepwalk, Leytonstone with BIG JOE LOUIS and DELTA ECHOES 10/02/07: The Oval Tavern, Croydon 07/06/07: The Cross Kings, Kings Cross with HICKS MILLIGAN-PROPHECY, THE MENTALISTS, BO NINGEN & DON TEMPI 03/08/07: The Greenhouse Effect, Hove with The Redeemers 21/11/07: What's Cookin' , Leytonstone Ex Servicemen's Club, E11 25/11/07: Sunday Swingin', Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, E1 10/12/07: The Borderline, London W1 10/06/08: The Old Explorer, London W1 with JB & The Wolfmen, The Richwoods & The Brilleaux Pads 26/09/08: The Arts Theatre Club, London W1 with Terry Edwards & The Scapegoats, Dear Thief & Afterwardsness 17/10/08: The Greenhouse Effect, Hove with The Redeemers 21/03/09: The Ivy House, Peckham. Paul & Fernanda's wedding, with The Bottle Brunettes, Don Tempi, The Bouverie Trader, and a short set of Tropicalia numbers where we backed Fernanda & Paul, and Arnold hopped up on stage and shook a shaky avocado 16/09/09: The College Arms, London WC1 with JB & The Wolfmen & The Brilleaux Pads 12/12/09: Mooch Bar, Burgess Hill - an even more stripped down than usual set (me on 12 string acoustic, Clive on acoustic bass, Danny on bongos) at my 40th birthday bash 17/12/2009: British Music Experience at the O2, backing Stephanie O'Brien (out of the Puppini Sisters) |
Disque
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Holy Flypaper, the Nelson Riddle instrumental covered by The McDeath Trio, gets an airing on vinyl courtesy of those good eggs at 442eme Rue Records on their excellent Tribute To Batman LP. Also on the album are The Charles Napiers with Brand New Batmobile, and some cracking tracks from The Adventures of Parsley, The Killer Bananazz and many more 442eme RUE |
Biography
It was summer 2005, and for the first time in over 20 years I found myself band-less. To pass the time I started messing around doing some solo home recordings and was so pleased with the outcome that I promptly booked a gig for late autumn. Then I realised I really ought to put a band together for this gig, so called on two long term collaborators who gladly, I am happy to say, said yes: Clive Pearman, with whom I have played on and off since 1986, in the Shockwaves, The Charles Napiers and a selection of other smaller projects And Danny O'Brien, with whom I have played on and off since 1991, in The Charles Napiers and The Ray Mondo Combo. |
