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ALBUM REVIEW: Boilermaker – Kill Or Create (Closed Shop Records)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Just when you think you\u2019ve nailed your albums of the year list, along comes one that demands a place in your Top 10. This second release by North East band Boilermaker<\/strong> is just such an album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were formed in Darlington in 2016 by former Last Rough Cause<\/strong> guitarist Phil Coates and drummer Max Turnbull, who now handles vocals, with Steve Addison on bass and Gimp Fist<\/strong>\u2019s Mike Robson on drums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first saw them live at Rebellion Festival<\/strong> in Blackpool in 2018, and loved that year\u2019s debut album Shop Floor<\/strong>, which contains 12 tracks of menace-laden street-punk. Their sound reminded me a lot of 80s bands like The Last Resort<\/strong> or the 4 Skins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Max Turnbull of Boilermaker when they opened for the Old Firm Casuals. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve seen them a few times since, including a support slot with Lars Frederiksen\u2019s Old Firm Casuals<\/strong>, and they get better every time, so to say I was looking forward to this album is a bit of an understatement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it really doesn\u2019t disappoint. In fact it\u2019s up there with records by the aforementioned Old Firm Casuals and Gimp Fist, Subhumans<\/strong> and The Menzingers<\/strong> as one of the best punk albums I\u2019ve heard all year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opener Boilermaker<\/strong> is already a live favourite, and the only thing wrong with it is that at 1 min 47 secs it\u2019s too short – a real crowdpleaser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boilermaker guitarist Phil Coates at the Riverside, Newcastle, when they opened for Old Firm Casuals. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s clear from the off this is a much more upbeat-sounding album then the first one, and second song A Place To Go<\/strong> emphasises the need for a place to call your own, where you\u2019re among your own kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In similar vein to Away Days from the first album, Siege Mentality<\/strong> is about being part of a football gang, while Charm Offensive<\/strong> celebrates the band making their way in the punk scene, defiantly insisting \u201cYou say, that the music that we play\/Has been and gone and had its day\u201d but \u201cThe prize is the smile I see in their eyes\/From the power that the band supplies\/While you\u2019re sitting there on your phone.\u201d Great stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They Can\u2019t Take Your Hands,<\/strong> which opens with a great bass and drums intro before the guitar kicks in, is a celebration of the power of the working woman or man, while Into The Night<\/strong> appears to be a love song, Boilermaker style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boilermaker bass player Steve Addison at the Black Bull in Gateshead. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

If this was an old-fashioned vinyl album \u2013 now there\u2019s an idea, lads – that would probably be the end of side one, and if you think that was good, wait for side two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

County Lines<\/strong> is one of the strongest songs on the record, about the drugs gangs bringing misery to towns and cities from afar, and warning \u201cwe\u2019ve gotta show the youth there’s other ways to the top\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roll Back The Years<\/strong> is another highlight, a real dose of nostalgia about simpler times: \u201cOur folks were happy to get a house on this estate, they grafted hard, got out Saturday night\u201d\u2026 \u201cBring back those times again, those days they never seemed to end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mike Robson, the powerhouse drummer who holds it all together for Boilermaker. Pic: Gary Welford.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ya Pays Ya Money<\/strong> and the closing title track<\/strong> aren\u2019t bad songs, but suffer through sitting either side of the album\u2019s standout track, There\u2019s A Police Car<\/strong>. It\u2019s an absolute stormer, warning of the unrest among a generation angry at being forgotten, and it\u2019s destined to become a massive live favourite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you like your punk tough, with plenty of anger, but lots of melody and no little musicianship, you need to get some Boilermaker into your life. 9\/10.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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