When, after eight years of being called Pickled Dick, the band ditched their name in favour of Mike TV, a lot of people starting asking questions. Enough people, in fact, for them to decide to issue us with a list of answers to some frequently asked questions. Why are you changing your name? Pickled Dick […]
With a splitting headache to contend with, it was anybody’s guess as to whether I’d survive the first band, let alone the whole night. Nevertheless, I entrenched myself in one of the little cubby-holes at the back of the Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth and prepared myself for the worst. As it happens, things kick off […]
Well, what more could you ask for. With ‘Exercise Your Demons’, Pickled Dick have managed to preserve their hooky pop rock style while adding tons more variety and a load more individuality. ‘Extra-Terrestrial’ is the main exponent of this transformation and opens the album in the strongest possible manner. It’s still got that classy nineties […]
For a while now Three Day Benda have been plugging tonight’s album launch party to me, but they need not have badgered me quite so relentlessly. As a keen admirer I was always going to be here, not just because of my fondness for the music but also out of my curiosity as to what […]
I don’t want to start this review by telling you that Pickled Dick sound like Greenday, because if you don’t like Greenday you’ll stop reading altogether and if you do like them, you might get all possessive about them and instantly write this band off as a copycat. That said, this record is definitely inspired […]
Denzil kicked off with a sometimes forgettable and occasionally impressive collection punk rock songs. The rocky rhythms were played to a higher level of competency than their faster punk-metal breaks, which generally demonstrated a need to tighten up when playing at speed. Their performance was improved when the singer put down his guitar and concentrated […]