Sunday 25th March 07 - The Horrors Plus Kreeps Club NME At The Welly Hull (1/2) By Michelle Dee Photographs by Kate Langan www.katelanganphotography.co.uk

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Eerie spaced out keyboard intros, skull shaped guitar heads, electric skeleton double bass, flutes saxophones and a Theremin? These are just some of the elements that make up the demented sound of Kreeps. The five piece stateside act, create stylized theatrical rock with multi instrumentation that leaves you open mouthed in admiration. All I Wanna Do Is... was their first release and I'm surprised to find it's almost all instrumental. The funky ass rock song features Simon Kreep on the aforementioned skeleton double bass and placed stage it dominates the sound.

The tune has a real smooth groove and I find myself moving with the beat as the player pulls and plucks the monolithic stringed monster.

The number Invasion is inspired by B-movie sci-fi film soundtracks and is suitably alien and otherworldly. Heavy expansive duo keys tones create an aural arena for unearthly psychedelic electronica. Taz Kreep (keyboards) dons an unnerving mask and proceeds to jerk and contort as he weaves and casts spells via the magical Theremin. Insight is given to the minds behind the music in the form of anecdote and commentary from drummer and vocalist Count Dom Kreep. He tells the young crowd with relish how the song Cyanide was borne out of his experiences of devouring the cult lexicon The Young Poisoners Handbook.

Flutes in rock bands? Not since the flowery rock of seventies. In this case the flute is used much like the keyboards earlier. Chip Kreep spews forth long drawn out blasts of shrill sound that adds urgency, tension and colour to the multi dimensional devotees.

The drum kit is stripped down to bare minimum but with an added electronic drum pad to help with samples and percussive loops. Brain deranging repeated vocals thistles and thorns on a boulder strewn gravel landscape. A slow creep/crawl as fingers drag over the keyboard brings this fucked-folk filmic rock to a close. The title Everyone I Went To School With Is Dead reminds me of that jolly sing-along Billy Jones Is Dead by MJ Hibbett which explores a similar theme. Although in Hibbett's case he is singing about the results of random life events, whereas Kreeps probably killed their classmates in a foul game of ever more ingenious and twisted design.

Only one person, that I know of from high school is dead; boy, motorbike, dark night, icy road, oncoming traffic; wasn't pretty. Before then in '86 there were the two boys that got struck by lightning outside a shopping arcade, but they were three years below me at school, so they don't count. Taz is back at his Theremin, now unmasked, body buckling and rearing simultaneously as hand and finger spasms dart in, whip out the invisible sonic threads.

Buy Kreeps records and then buy them for your black hearted boyfriend so that they can tour the world. Everyone should see this spectacle.

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The Kreeps sketches courtesy and Copyright ©  Dom Kreep (drummer/singer/multi-instrumentalist) 2007

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