The Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell are the last of a dying breed of Grease Rock B*****d musicians who somehow, despite and in spite of the last 3 decades trying their best to kill off balls out, non-bullshit rocknroll music, somehow, against all the odds, still exist, surviving on a steady diet of God sent gigs, hire vans, broken down amps, split drum skins, greasy spoon fry ups, patched up jeans, roll-ups, cheap leather jackets, booze, weed and bathtub speed.
On their new LP Check 'em Before You Wreck 'em the Shovell somehow carry on the lineage of the truly golden age of British heavy rock whose stained road was paved by the likes of Budgie, Sabbath, early Motorhead, Quo, Lizzy, The Groundhogs, Stray etc. Chuck in a healthy chunk of U.S. and Aussie proto metallurgists Sir Lord Baltimore, Dust, Bang, The Litter and Buffalo, as well as a healthy Vertigo Swirl of dew picked mushrooms bad trip psych.
The Shovell thinks the world could do with another slice of no-nonsense re-gressive proto-rock n metal – one that you don’t need a Degree in doomrock or a Masters in metal to appreciate just a love of when music was F U N !!!!