Twisted Wheel to play DJ set @ The Castle, Union St, Oldham

Twisted Wheel are to play another of their famous DJ sets at The Castle (Room 2), Union Street, Oldham on Friday 1st May.

Rick, Jonny & Adam will be spinning discs from 10pm giving the brand new Room 2 a proper launch.

As usual, the lads will be giving you the best sounds from the 50s/60s/70s Punk & Alternative Rock & much more.

No pre-sale tickets available, just pay on the door, but it is adviseable to get there early to avoid disappointment. Doors open 10pm - 3am, Entrance £4 (before 12), £5 (after 12).

Contact Info Email: http://thecastle@rock.com http://www.castleoldham.com/

http://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/CASTLEOLDHAM

iTunes - 'Oh What Have You Done' single of the week

ITunes annouce 'Oh What Have You Done' as single of the week - Free Download..!

http://www.apple.com/uk/itunes/whatsnew/

Manchesters Twisted Wheel takes its name from the Northern Soul club that operated throughout the 60s and early 70s. This trio of rough-and-ready rockers has a new vision of soul music in mind. Stripped to the bones bare minimum of rock essentials Twisted Wheel kicks out the Jams like a blend of the Clash, the Ramones, the MC5, the Sex Pistols, Chuck Berry and Johnny Thunders offering thick snarling vocals and no-nonsense, pogo friendly rave-ups. 'Oh what Have You Done' will have you snarling along in seconds.

Pictures from the TWISTED WHEEL tour, supporting the Enemy March/April 2009

Twisted Wheel have done a fantastic job of supporting The Enemy on their latest tour (along with Kid British). I've followed them from Inverness, around England and Wales, then over to Ireland (not an easy job as I actually live along the South coast of England). Each night they played an amazing tight set full of energy with songs from their debut album (out now - so go & buy it!!).The venues were packed and they won over many of the Enemy fans with their raw rock n roll sound, each night giving their all. Starting off with 'Lucy The Castle' and running right thro to 'We Are Us'. As well as their gigs, Rick & Jonny also did DJ sets at various venues around the country. I took many pictures on the tour, but obviously can't put them all on here, but I hope these ones will make you see what a fantastic band they are. They have their own headline tour coming up in May (dates are listed in the right hand column here) all pictures were taken by me.. including.. 'butter for my toast, 'no washing powder for my clothes'

Twisted Wheel to play at Mini United Festival Saturday 23rd May @ Silverstone Race Circuit

Twisted Wheel will be playing at the Mini United Festival on Saturday 23rd May 2009. It takes place at the Silverstone Race Circuit.

The tickets are £35 for the whole 3 day event.

Paul Weller will also be appearing.

Tickets are available here : http://www.miniunited.com/web/guest/miniunited2009

OR

There are 10 pairs of tickets to be won!: http://de.click2music.co.uk/click2music_new/datagen_v2/pages/00018161001.php

See you there....!!

Ben Sherman presents TWISTED WHEEL with free download

Twisted Wheel have a dedicated page on the Ben Sherman web site

http://www.bensherman.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaticPageDisplay?storeId=10551&langId=-1&identifier=BBS2

which includes exclusive videos and the free mp3 download

Spillers Record Store (the oldest record store in the world!) Instore acoustic set 16/04/09

Thursday saw the lads hit Cardiff.... Before the night's gig supporting the Enemy at the Uni, they strolled down to the oldest record store in the world - Spillers Records, in Queens Parade, Cardiff, a tiny shop with a fantastic atmosphere, where Jonny played an intimate acoustic set which included 'Strife', (never been played before in an acoustic set) - 'Bad Candy' & 'Bouncing Bomb'

(pics by me)

visit Spillers Record stores http://www.spillersrecords.co.uk/

Gigwise.com A Day In The Life of Twisted Wheel 16/04/09

A Day In The Life Of Twisted Wheel -As they promote their debut album.

Gigwise was given unprecedented access to Twisted Wheel as they promoted their self titled debut album in Oldham and Manchester. They tailed them as they visted radio stations, played two instore gigs and signed records for fans.

Go to gigwise.com for more pics

http://www.gigwise.com/article.php?id=50481&image=15

HMV Instores Oldham & Manchester 15/04/09

15th April saw a mega busy day for the lads. Firstly, Oldham HMV Instore @ 1pm, acoustic set featuring 'Strife' 'Let Them Have It All' and 'Bouncing Bomb'. There followed a visit to Rock Radio in Salford. 6pm saw the lads performing an electric set at Manchester's HMV, where rock n roll mayhem reigned supreme!! The set included 'Lucy The Castle', 'Shes a Weapon', 'Bad Candy', 'Oh What Have You Done' & current single 'We Are Us' (images from wireimage.com)

Music OMH - Twisted Wheel debut album review ***

Twisted Wheel have been making a lot of noise over the last year. The Oldham trio's high-octane commercial spin on post-punk rock has supported the likes of The View and The Enemy on tour (with Oasis and Paul Weller to come this summer). Does the release of their debut self-titled album justify all the fuss? The answer is definitely yes if you like no-nonsense guitar-based lad-rock (see the names above) with big tunes and singalong choruses. If you are looking for something more original with shades of subtlety, then you will be disappointed. As perhaps suggested by their major record label Columbia and their commercially successful American producer Dave Sardy, Twisted Wheel may have the snarling aggression of punk but their sound is very much on the mainstream side of 'indie'. And though they are named after the legendary Manchester Northern Soul club, but they are closer to pub rock than Motown. The songs are strong, if lacking variation. Opener Lucy The Castle sets the tone with its main loud rock'n'roll/boogie woogie riff pierced by a short punky guitar solo and backed by a driving rhythm: a defiant attitude destined to launch a thousand pints of lager at their gigs, which they will soon be headlining. First single She's A Weapon carries on the swaggering posture in a blistering dose of pure adrenaline which leaves your heart pumping. Current single We Are Us moves away from women to politics, as the band enter the territory of the early The Jam or The Enemy with lines like "You will never stop us/Cos you are you and we are us": us and them class consciousness is alive and kicking it seems. Lyrically Oh What Have You Done also hypes up the aggro - "People try to destroy me/And they don't even know me" - while musically it could have come from 1977. Conflict continues in the aptly named Strife, in which a girl "shaves her leg with a potato peeler" (ouch!), followed by the catchy One Night On The Streets with its rock-solid groove, the slightly skiffly Let Them Have It All and the punchy Bad Candy driven by staccato chords, one of the album's best tracks. You Stole The Sun is rather different, a somewhat surreal story about... someone stealing the sun - it doesn't seem to serve any symbolic purpose. Bouncing Bomb is an acoustic-guitar-led song with a folksy protest feel, and What's Your Name also turns down the noise a notch to bring about a relatively mellow conclusion to a record full of sound and fury. Frontman Jonny Brown's sneering vocal style may be limited in range but its in yer face directness makes a big impact, and his guitar playing is equally raucous, while bassist Rick Lees and drummer Adam Clarke form a tight rhythm section. Twisted Wheel have made an impressively rousing debut, even if it holds no surprises. The test will be whether they are able to develop when the time comes to make the difficult second album. - Neil Dowden

Shakenstir Twisted Wheel - Liverpool gig review (supporting the Enemy March 2009)

Twisted Wheel: Liverpool 2009 Twisted Wheel, who take their name from the old northern soul club, venerating Manchester’s past glory, are taking their incendiary, compulsive, no-holds-barred, live set on another national tour this year when they take to the road as special guests to The Enemy throughout March and April, before a headline tour in May. The guys then support on several Oasis outdoor stadium shows and open for Paul Weller on his outdoor forest tour this Summer. The festivities continue in Liverpool tonight thirty-three years after the influential Sex Pistols gig in the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall, it is exciting to see the city’s punk roots being rediscovered and reworked by a younger outfit. Twisted Wheel have quickly earned themselves a reputation as one of the hardest working young touring bands around and also as the support band of choice (previously having gigged with Oasis, Ian Brown, The View, Pigeon Detectives, The Courteeners, Reverend & The Makers, Kasabian, The Rascals, The Coral and The Happy Mondays). Mining the same rich seam as some of the UK’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands such as The Clash, The Who and The Jam; and armed with a lyrical intensity to match Mark E Smith at his most pointed. In twelve short months the Oldham three-piece have gone from nothing to selling out 500 capacity shows in their home town, 300,000 views of their My Space site, and a record deal with Columbia Records. With songs that tell tales of unhinged northern street life, dripping with sardonic humour and reckless desperation. With chant’s of ‘Wheel’ already rolling around the venue before the band even emerge it’s hard to remember that The Enemy are supposed to be headlining. When The Wheel eventually appear they give all the raw energy of the crowd right back to them. Around a year ago they came to my home town and performed an outstanding acoustic session for my radio show, and a gig to around 50 people in my local venue. They seemed young, nervous and not really ready. A year on and they have become a full force rock machine that commands the stage and audience in front of them, and drive the songs right down our throats

The stabbing guitar chords of ‘Lucy The Castle’ create a frantic mosh pit as plastic pint glasses go flying through the air. The high tempo, marching drums of ‘You Stole The Sun’, complimented with rasping vocals further adds to the frenzy. ‘She’s A Weapon’ is an all out assault on what is left of the crowd’s energy. Upcoming single ‘We Are Us’ just confirms how good this band really is borrowing heavily from the likes of The Clash and The Jam, with a hint of Oasis - Twisted Wheel has a refreshingly retro but not outdated aura. Twisted Wheel release their debut album on April 13th on CD, ltd. CD/DVD and very ltd. vinyl. The album also plays host to acclaimed single Lucy The Castle, and new versions of earlier releases ‘You Stole The Sun’ and ‘She’s A Weapon’, you would be foolish not to purchase a copy and then catch the band live at some point - I recommend their Liverpool Sound City gig in May, but I would, wouldn’t I…

Twisted Wheel DJ Set @ Brixton Jamm 12/04/09

After the gig at the Brixton Academy we eventually found the place with Rick & Jonny getting us in (THANK YOU!!).. . Managed to see two bands before the lads set... pints consumed.. bit pissed... classic tracks played -

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Leeds Music Scene Album Review ****

"A Band For The People" and "Proper Music That You Can Believe In" are definitely over-used phrases since two brothers by the name of Gallagher came onto the British music scene, and Twisted Wheel are definitely a band for which the above cliche apply, but please don't stop reading here. Whilst the band clearly has Oasis as a big influence, here swagger is replaced by snarl and genuine inspiration. 'She's a Weapon' marries breezy ska verses to a vicious chorus, before breaking everything down and cranking it up to a turbo speed ending, all in less than two thrilling minutes. 'Let Them Have It All' is a real joy, the whole thing being carried along by a great sense of melody and undeniable energy - frontman Jonny Brown sounding at times like an infinitely more in tune and interesting version of Caleb Followill. Less successful are the attempts at slowing things down, with 'Strife' being particularly unsuccessful. It starts like 'Some Might Say,' a chorus reminiscent of 'Champagne Supernova' and a solo that could really be lifted off any Oasis song ever made. It's in these slower songs that their influences shine through a little too brightly, and they really feel like an arbitrary break for the listener before the next exciting onslaught. This really is a band who will go from strength to strength - the last song written for the album - 'Oh What Have You Done' is its undoubted highlight, packed with credit crunch-friendly lines such as "I've got no butter for my toast/no washing powder for my clothes", the mountainous chorus is just the thing to lead The Enemy fans away to these greener pastures. A band with tunes to actually match the motor mouth? It may well just catch on. REVIEWED BY ROWAN BRUNSWICK

Manchester Music Album Review ALBUM OF THE WEEK *****

The Twisted Wheel seem to have done impossibly well in the last year, but the truth is that they are maybe the hardest working band out there at the moment. A series of (high profile) tours and live dates, have somehow been squeezed in, between the recording of this album and the band’s quick succession of memorable singles. The superb attacking pop of “Lucy The Castle” is present , alongside “She’s A Weapon” and “You Stole The Sun”, but current single “We Are Us” provides a convincing example of the band’s versatility. Jonny Brown’s guitar work is the centrepiece, but without long time cohort Rick Lees on bass and the shotgun sharp drumming of Adam Clarke, it would be hard to picture anything as focussed as the material found here on their debut album. In a few words, their self titled album is potentially a collection of 11 hit singles. The punk of “Oh What Have You Done”, complete with snarls and the Damned’s Brian James styled guitar assaults, underpins the urgency and immediacy of their songs. Elsewhere there are small tributes to bands like the Arctic Monkeys and Oasis (“Strife”), but these are contained to specific moments with little more than a fleeting, tongue in cheek sense of respect. Whilst Brown and co are entirely consistent, there’s a whole range of material that revels in Mod culture and the free-wheeling, intelligent guitar posings of punk. Twisted Wheel take us on journeys that celebrate the sounds of The Jam tumbling through a set at the 100 Club in 1976. They also investigate a hidden taste for Manchester’s own rock and roll heritage, from the sounds of 60’s Irwell-beat, the underground guitars of Madchester’s summer of love, Northern Britpop and the still ringing echoes of the finest sounds of Burnage. Thankfully “Twisted Wheel” offers no indication at all that this is any kind of tribute of album, more a distillation of what makes a truly great guitar track. Brown is one of Manchester’s most talented guitarist since Squire, with a quivering energy that makes you wonder if he had ever studied under the great Wilco Johnson. There’s a pleasant cavalier twist to “Bouncing Bomb” which provides a rare acoustic moment. Album closure is left to “What’s Your Name”, a favourite from their original demo, that still glitters between melodic sways, even if it has been toughened up for the album sessions. “Twisted Wheel” is a typically northern album, yet so strong is the bands imprint that they have truthfully crafted a sound all of their own, with a direct, unfettered new wave punch and a compelling range of infectiously short but memorable tunes. It seems to have been a long time coming, even in the Wheel’s relatively short career, but their debut is worth every penny and every single minute of listening time. An important Mancunian album on any day. REVIEWED BY JA

YOU STOLE THE SUN LYRICS

You stole the sun and its raining outside You stole the sun your not giving it to anyone You stole the sun You stole the sun and its raining outside You stole the sun your not giving it to anyone So I built myself a ladder and I climbed up to the sun I took with me my sunglasses I took my water pistol And eventually I shot him, I stuck him in my bag I took him down the ladders and he toasted all my fags And then I hung him in my bedroom and it was nice and hot I went into my wardrobe and put on my shades and shorts Soon I had a suntan, I hadnt told a soul The Police came round to ask me I said I didnt know You stole the sun You stole the sun and its raining outside You stole the sun you aint giving it to anyone You stole the sun You stole the sun and its raining outside You stole the sun you aint giving it to anyone Well it was pitch black outside, no one could see a thing And Im stood here with my guitar and I begin to sing While everybody else is searching for a torch I'm stood here in the sunshine, there's no way I'm getting bored I'm sipping on a cocktail, I suck a strawberry split I hold my glass up in the air and I said I love this shit Mr sunshine says to me, when will you set me free? I said to him, grin on my face, No you're all for me You stole the sun You stole the sun and its raining outside You stole the sun you ain't giving him to anyone Who stole the sun, who stole the sun, who stole the sun Well I'm making a confession and I dont know why But I had this suddenurge to take the sun right out the sky To keep it for myself, not for anybody else I got so blind and selfish that I began to melt And after about three days, I burnt up to a crisp I had to leave the sun off guard to go and have a piss To go and get some cream to soothe my painful blisters I ran down to the shop, I heard somebody whisper And they asked me where I'd been And why I looked like a lobster I blamed it on my ex who went to uni and I lost her She called me on the phone and gives me loads of grief She said I need to get a life and that I am a theif I dont know how she clocked me She really sussed me out But anyway I've gotta go, Ive got things to sort out I ran back up the road, I looked up at my house My window was ajar, Mr Sunshine had got out Darkness became daylight and I felt full of spite I fell down on my knees and I began to cry Mr Sunshine got away, he was shining down his rays I went and got my ladders and I got him back again You stole the sun You stole the sun and its raining outside You stole the sun you aint giving it to anyone You stole the sun Who stole the sun, who stole the sun, who stole the sun You stole the sun SONG WRITTEN BY JONNY BROWN

The Music Magazine review Twisted Wheel debut album

Twisted Wheel – yet again a band representing the sound of Northern Youth. Before you groan, however, and claim that you’ve heard it all before, from the Monkey’s et al. just take a listen to the Manchester band’s debut album – you might be surprised. Whilst undoubtedly Twisted Wheel are an indie band in the vein of the Arctic Monkeys, the View, the Courteeners, the Enemy, and (dare I say it?) the Pigeon Detectives and Little Man Tate, they differ greatly from their contemporaries in that they have achieved that rare feat – a truly primitive punk album, whose greatest influences – the Jam, the Clash, the Who, Lou Reed, can be heard throughout. The most modern aspect of Twisted Wheel is that lyrically every song tells a gritty tale of Northern street life. What singer Jonny Brown lacks in romanticism it makes up for in a poignant, observational tone dripping with sardonic humour. Take recent single You Stole The Sun – not the romantic tale about falling in love you would expect – it is literally a song about a bloke nicking the sun, complete with the lyric “I went and got a ladder and I got it back again”. Album closer What’s Your Name is a poignant modern love story, telling tales of sex in back alleys. For all the modern Monkeyness of the lyrics, however, musically Twisted Wheel is pure vintage. From the lo-fi production to the frantic guitars and savage vocals, everything about this album screams punk. Jonny Brown spits out lyrics like a young Gallagher, or even a young Rotten. Album opener and high-point Lucy The Castle couldn’t sound more like 70s Bowie or Reed if it tried. She’s A Weapon is brilliantly angry, and One Night On The Streets has a funky feel. The album’s best track You Stole The Sun is a primitive rockabilly number. The pace of the album slows down on Strife , the closest the album comes to an anthem, and Bouncing Bomb, a beautiful, melodic, almost psychedelic track which would not sound out of place on the last two Oasis albums (and that is not a bad thing, in my opinion). Only once do Twisted Wheel resort to indie-by-numbers on Let Them Have It All, which sounds very much like the View, but even this is saved by a energetic, sing-a-long chorus. What is so great about this album is that it marries two completely different eras of music brilliantly- modern Northern indie and punk – and because of this sounds like a breath of fresh air. reviewed by Laura Rodwell for The Music Magazine

Daily Mail 10/04/09 Review Twisted Wheel album ***

Twisted Wheel: Twisted Wheel (Columbia)

Hailed as 'a breath of fresh air' by Liam Gallagher, Oldham trio Twisted Wheel imbue their lad-rocking instincts with unexpected subtlety here. Recent singles You Stole The Sun and Lucy The Castle combine the punky spirit of The Clash with an eye for the everyday detail worthy of the Artic Monkeys. But singer Jonny Brown is also a fan of Bob Dylan, and his more reflective leanings are well to the fore on the folky Bouncing Bomb. ***

Twisted Wheel DJ Slot @ NME Coalition Brighton 08/04/09

After the rocking set supporting The Enemy at the Dome Rick & Jonny headed off to DJ at the Coalition Club along the Brighton see front.

.......Many pints were consumed, so Im sorry that I can't remember much.

In-store performances and signings

HMV OLDHAM (Town Square Shopping Centre)Weds 15th April @ 1pm (acoustic)

HMV MANCHESTER (Market Street)Weds 15th April @ 6pm (electric)

SPILLERS CARDIFF Thurs 16th April @ 6:15pm (acoustic & signing)

Twisted Wheel Exclusive video series on MySpace A 4-part Twisted Wheel series that's been made up, consisting of new interview footage and some acoustic performances, and MySpace are featuring it on their Music page . Click here to watch PT1 and here for PT2.