The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster (They are named after a car which they say was once driven by Winston Churchill) [EMBD] are an intense, loud, and powerful band that exploded out of Brighton in early 2002. They rapidly gathered attention with their first single "Morning has Broken" - a concoction of psycho-billy punk, thrash, Elvis-from-hell vocals, and their own brand of weirdness that has to be heard to be believed.

After a series of short, chaotic live performances they released a second single "Celebrate your Mother" an even faster and louder song than their debut.

In December the debut album "Horse of the Dog" was released, their highly original blasts of noise and genuine anger intersecting with almost random playing that lacked any form of structure. This added a whole new dimension to their "songs".

In early January their third single "Psycosis Safari" came out, arguably the best, and most commercial song on the album.

Three of the band are Buddists, they have a strong belief in Psycosis as a positive force, and they own a dragster that is also called "The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster.

The Band

The EMBD are:

• Guy McKnight - Vocals
• Andy Huxley - Lead Guitar
• Marc Norris - Rhythm Guitar
• Sym Gharial - Bass
• Tom Diamantopoulo - Drums

Horse of the Dog

Tracks:

1. Celebrate your Mother - A propulsive bassline, a wail of feedback, and the debut album by the EMBD begins. Its about incest, or loving someone's mother. A speedy attack with guitar solos flying everywhere, until the guitar-and-snare middle eight cuts in and holds for almost a minute. All hell then breaks loose and a huge thrash carries it through to the end.

2. Chicken - A rocking horse rhythm takes this song through dark musical waters.

3. Whack of s**t - A slow grind with an extremly loud chorus, and Guy McKnight claiming himself to be "Just a man".

4. Psychosis Safari - Arguably the best song on the album, "Psychosis Safari" sees the EMBD thrashing through their guitars until they sound completly wrecked, as the solo near the end sounds like the last gasp of the instument before it completely overloads.

5. Giant Bones - The most chaotic song on the album randomly thrashes about until everything stops, starts again, gets faster, repeats, then ends before the 2 minute line.

6. Fishfingers - At this point, you would think that the EMBD would offer some respite, but instead they knock out the fastest song on the album, with Guy screaming I am the son of God!.

7. Charge the Guns - A song about war and death that lasts less than a minute and a half.

8. Morning has Broken - A song about Jesus, with a screechy intro and distorted vocals leading you to belive that this will be the loudest song on the album, and it almost does it, but the lyric "I wana live my life making love" lightens the mood slightly.

9. Team Meat - This song makes fun of rich people who think they're cool because of their wealth.

10. Presidential Wave - The longest, loudest and most doomy sounding of the lot with a creepy vocal middle eight and a strange guitar intro.

Videos

• Celebrate your Mother - A straight forward band-plays-to-rabid-crowd set up, the only difference being that the crowd are transvestites.
• Psychosis Safari - An extremely strange and unusual video where ghosts and various other creatures spin round the EMBD who are driving the EMBD. This is interspersed with shots of them playing on a yellow background while it appears that they are on a 3D screen, and the viewer puts on 3D glasses. In the finale the car goes so fast that the band burn up in a blast of flames.