Liverpool Horror-Rockers Zombina and the Skeletones have made up their minds that their new single, Teenage Caveman Beat Gargantua, will top the charts this Halloween.
With only just over a week to go until October 31st, the scheme probably sounds a little overambitious, but Zombina (who, incidentally has no record company backing or anything like that) remains undaunted, claiming:
“The charts are a ghost town right now. Nobody even knows who’s in the charts anymore, and the legitimate purchase of music has almost ground to a halt.
"We believe we can get that Halloween top spot that nobody else wants, by way of a sneak attack…”
This sneak attack will involve a campaign in part inspired by the notorious Rage Against the Machine vs the X-Factor chart upset and also takes some cues from Bill Drummond's The Manual and the classic ‘60s publicity stunts of Screaming Lord Sutch.
The Halloween number one spot is currently uncontested ground but if this nefarious plot is successful (which includes the single getting in the charts at all) this could open the door for other oddball underground bands to rise up and reclaim the charts in the name of art.
Teenage Caveman Beat Gargantua could potentially return the UK music industry to the glory days of punk rock or Brit-Pop, when even the scrappiest of homegrown talent was able to flourish in the mainstream.
The track itself, appropriately a ‘David and Goliath’ tale of a young Neanderthal’s monster-slaying rite of passage, set to sax-driven rock n’ roll, will be available to buy from October 28th on Spotify, iTunes, Play.com, X-box and many more – and 250 hand-numbered vinyl copies can be pre-ordered from http://www.zombina.com
Be sure to watch the spectacularly low budget, papier-mâché and loincloth powered, video on YouTube and buy your copy on the 28th!
Zombina and the Skeletones have been mixing garage punk and girl-group pop with spooked out surfabilly sonics since 1998.
They've shared stages with Kid Congo Powers, Shonen Knife, Hot Chip, The Cribs, The Horrors, GWAR, Wednesday 13, The Damned, The Meteors and The Misfits (to name but a few), have headlined festivals in Germany and Finland and been invited to drag their blood spattered live show as far out as Sicily, Greece and the Czech Republic.
They are currently on a tour of mainland Europe, but whatever the outcome of this experiment Zombina and the Skeletones will be celebrating at their Halloween Homecoming show at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes in London on October 31st.
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