The Cheats
Title: Hats Off To The Cheats
Label: Off The Hip (Australia)
Catalogue No: (oth7074)
Format: CD (album)
Release Date: 2009
Price: $ 25.00
Armed with two vintage guitar amps and a beat-up drum-kit, The Cheats have recorded 13 tracks of live-wire party rock 'n' roll that is sure to make waves and bring good times wherever it is heard.
Track Listing: (39:23 m:s)
- Do It Again (2:37 m:s)
- One Foot In The Grave (3:10 m:s)
- Wait There (3:19 m:s)
- Don't Be Sad (3:49 m:s)
- Another Night (2:56 m:s)
- Burn It Up (2:15 m:s)
- Leavin' Here (3:57 m:s)
- Rack 'Em Up (3:01 m:s)
- Worried About You (2:54 m:s)
- Where You Been? (3:05 m:s)
- Baby Won't You Be My Baby (Tonight)? (1:33 m:s)
- Run For Your Life (3:17 m:s)
- The Devil And You (3:40 m:s)
Following on from the release of their single 'Burn It Up', Melbourne's party rock 'n' roll duo The Cheats unleash their debut album 'Hats Off To The Cheats' through Australia's premier garage rock label, Off The Hip Records.
Recorded at Sing Sing South, and produced by Robbie Adams (Kamikaze Trio 'Rain On Your Parade' and The Specimens 'Jazz Brutus'), 'Hats Off To The Cheats' maintains the raw energy and imagination of The Cheats live show, while adding a few extra sounds into the mix.
The two misfits; Julian Tovey (guitar, vocals) and Tom 'Coops' Cooper (drums, vocals) met in 2004 when they joined The Flaming Lips onstage at The Big Day Out dressed in furry animal costumes. Not long after they went on tour through the US and UK with Riff Random - Coops as guitar tech and Jules on bass. It was over a beer at The Espy once they had returned, when they decided to start a band. The Cheats was formed and songs began to flow, creating a high energy sound based on equal parts rock n' roll, blues and punk.
Having shared stages with an impressive list of acts including Eagles Of Death Metal, Louis XIV, The Zoobombs, Bob Log III, British India, Spazzys, The Exploders, The Meanies, The Grates, The Drones, and Brant Bjork & The Bros, The Cheats have cemented their electric live show and developed a growing fan base all over town.
Things will not be slowing down for The Cheats, after winning triple j's Unearthed competition, having songs featured in both seasons of Channel 9's crime-drama Underbelly, and now the release of their debut album, The Cheats are gonna bring the good times with 'em and make one hell of a racket along the way!
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