APB - Palace Filled With Love - Live in NYC August 20, 2011

APB performs "Palace Filled With Love" live in New York City August 20, 2011.
Iain Slater, Glenn Roberts and George Cheyne.
©Footage by Echo Danon Photography

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APB
Jaguar
Oatcake Records (CD mini-album and MP3 download)
Release Date: September 2011

"A marriage made in heaven. If David Bowie got together with Cameo in an Aberdeen loft this might be on the agenda." (Kevin Pearce)

They supported James Brown as well as The Clash and The Jam. They inspired The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. The New York Tri-State Area adopted them as their own.
All of this from some country dwelling kids from Scotland.

APB were one of the early post-punk funk acts to make headway in the UK and USA -- where their early 45s were often played at such legendary pre-House boom clubs as The Danceteria and The Mudd Club. For the uninitiated they sounded like a more mainstream contemporary to Gang Of Four. There were plenty of plays on Radio 1 with John Peel being a huge advocate and fan, as well as the group having a number of appearances on the burgeoning youth shows on TV. APB visited America 12 times and gained fans as converse as Joey Ramone and Arthur Baker.

After a lengthy break, the post-punk/funk pioneers are back with a new seven-track mini-LP on Oatcake Records. Remerging in 2006 the original three-piece, which formed in the small rural town of Ellon in 1979, have looked back to the source material that so inspired them as teenagers. George Cheyne, drums; Glenn Roberts, guitar and Iain Slater, bass and vocals (with The Jasmine Minks' Jim Shepherd singing lead vocals on 'Jaguar' and capturing the essence of the gold lame suit clad white man soul of Bowie) sound as exciting as ever in 2011. Iain Slater's vocals have the edgy phrasing of APB's earliest outings circa 'Chain Reaction' or 'Shoot You Down', the time when the punk of The Buzzcocks and Clash was colliding with the steely experiments of Eno and The Talking Heads. What goes around comes around, you could say, as 'You Give Me Pain's' socially critical lyrics, the cutting guitar, punchy bass and offbeat drumming could quite easily be from the pen of Alex Turner.

Considering acts like APB, Wire and Gang Of Four's stylistic is so hugely influential it's a real pleasure to hear one of the founding bands return with a clutch of new material that makes it seem as if very little has really changed in 21 years."

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