Sorry for the negligence

Never fear! All of you followers and frequent readers ...*cough cough* ('cos there's so many of you...) can fight the famine with ear-blasting, good ol' fashion, modern day blues rock advocates, Hot Fiction. This UK duo, Andy Yeoh (vocals and drums) and Simon Miller (guitar) are the spawns of rhythm and soul heroes The Black Keys circa Thickfreakness, which in my opinion is still the best album TBK have produced. Their debut album "Dark Room" was released in June 2010, with all tracks being available for download from the band's Facebook Bandpage.
Catchy garage blues riffs, bellowing choruses sung through Yeoh's smooth low-pitched pipes, stomp-along drumming and a whole lot of attitude in each track make for one great album. Out of the 13 tracks, these are the stand-outs in my opinion, Start It Off, Laid Me Low, All My Love In Vein, Get Out Of My House and Autumn Girl (harmonica!)
These guys are just starting to kick off in the big bad world of music and I want to give them all the help I can, which is not much... but I can urge you (and you can imagine puppy dog's eyes while I do this) to not only download the tracks but also Like and share their page! Then we can all be those smug dickheads who get to say  "I liked them before they got big". Real big...as I foresee in the near future.


And just because I can, here's Dan and Pat on the cover of the first Rolling Stone Magazine for 2012 and a snippet from the interview.

"Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world," says drummer Patrick Carney. "So they became OK with the idea that the biggest rock band in the world is always going to be shit – therefore you should never try to be the biggest rock band in the world. Fuck that! Rock & roll is the music I feel the most passionately about, and I don't like to see it fucking ruined and spoon-fed down our throats in this watered-down, post-grunge crap, horrendous shit. When people start lumping us into that kind of shit, it's like, ‘Fuck you,' honestly."  source

Amen, the prophets are here to save us!