Hoggboy's physical home is Sheffield, but their spiritual mecca is a hybrid of MC5's Detroit and Ramones'New York. Their credentials are suitably top-notch, both sartorial (scuffed-up leathers and denim, unruly mops) and musical (Pistols legend Chris Thomas produces eight numbers; Uncut favourite Richard Hawley the other three), and there's enough sneering garage bluster on show?the wildly crashing "Urgh!!!" and "So Young"; the feedback snarl of "Mile High Club"?for justification. The tunes sometimes lose their way, but there's just enough belligerent suss left poking through the rubble.
Hoggboy’s physical home is Sheffield, but their spiritual mecca is a hybrid of MC5’s Detroit and Ramones’New York. Their credentials are suitably top-notch, both sartorial (scuffed-up leathers and denim, unruly mops) and musical (Pistols legend Chris Thomas produces eight numbers; Uncut favourite Richard Hawley the other three), and there’s enough sneering garage bluster on show?the wildly crashing “Urgh!!!” and “So Young”; the feedback snarl of “Mile High Club”?for justification. The tunes sometimes lose their way, but there’s just enough belligerent suss left poking through the rubble.
