Newport punks Strawberry Blondes return with their second full length album ‘Fight Back’. While many bands fall victim to the dreaded ‘difficult second album’, Strawberry Blondes deliver a barrage of prime rabble-rousing anthems, featuring guest appearances by The Briggs’ Joey La Rocca and former Stubborn All-Stars front man and New York City ska legend King Django. ‘Fight Back’ shows that Strawberry Blondes, like The Clash and The Specials before them, have that knack of writing songs that perfectly capture the mood of the time. These are songs that express the anger and frustration of living in the bleak and decaying cities of Britain, in a way that is culturally positive and delivered with a passion and an indefinable feeling that’s difficult to fake.
“This year is the 25th anniversary of the 1984 miner’s strike, where we come from even today the scars of the strike still run deep,” adds frontman Mickie Stabbs. “That’s why this album is dedicated to the miner’s and their families. One of my first memories of school was when I was about 5 years old, during the miners’ strike. I remember at lunchtime the orange plastic buckets used to go around collecting loose change for the National Union of Mineworkers. When you're that young it sticks in your brain and as you become a bit older and start to really understand, you can't help but become radicalised by what is going on around you.”
The band who were personally invited by Rancid to open a UK tour, have also clocked up shows alongside the likes of Bad Brains, Anti-Flag, UK Subs and The Unseen, as well as extensive touring of the UK and Europe. In addition to this, the title track from their 2007 debut-album, ‘Rise Up’ features on the movie soundtrack to the film Green Street 2, ( Titled ‘Hooligans 2‘, in the U.S.). The sequel to Green Street - The 2005 football hooligan movie starring Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani and Marc Warren.
Fired with the burning frustration of living on the wrong side of nu-millennium Britain, Strawberry Blondes reinvent the past and spit it into the future.
Strawberry Blondes release 'Fight Back' on Monday 9th November 2009 through Not On Your Radio Records.
For more information contact: Mark James @ Motion PR
For more on Strawberry Blondes please see: http://www.myspace.com/strawberryblondes
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