Q. Aren't you the guy out of that silly band Sack Trick?
Chris Says "Yes!" |
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Despite,
or perhaps fuelled by, the fact that I'd been in some pretty silly bands before
I decided to form the ultimate in silly bands. In fact the
silliest band in the World, no less. We would be so silly that we
would sing ballads about Camels and Heavy Metal songs about ice cream.
We would change our line-up every gig. We would drink Belgian beer, wear
hats and play lots of Kiss covers. We would be Sack Trick. |
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Sack Trick's
line-up is really just a bunch of friends who love to play music
and laugh
together. |
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So far we've made three Sack Trick albums, "Music from the Mystery Rabbits" ("too much spare time on their hands" Metal Hammer), "Penguins on the Moon" ("obviously this is a work of genius" Kerrang) and "Sheep in Kiss Make-up" ("the greatest covers album of all time" Classic Rock Magazine). Each album follows the predecessor in making slightly less sense than the one before. |
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At first we didn't really plan to play any gigs, but then a few came our way and they seemed like fun so we did loads more. We've done headline UK and Scandinavian tours, supported the likes of Bruce Dickinson and the Damned and we even somehow got to play the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. It's often different line-ups playing live too and the different inputs only serve to enrich (or distort) the sound. |
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Despite the fact that we've been so silly by avoiding contact with the music industry in general, things have been going from strength to strength. We've even designed our own card game called "Shape Card Championships", which probably wouldn't have happened if we'd signed to a major record label. |
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Kerrang came to
see us play once and said "unfortunately it’s all
marred by too much slap-bass nonsense from the boy-Dale" |
See the Sack Trick website for more...