Label: Thors Hammer (Germany), THCD 003
Style: Hard Rock, Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: Aalst, East Flanders, Belgium
Time: 61:23
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 359 Mb
Irish
Coffee’s singer-guitarplayer William Souffreau (b.1946.4.14) made his
first steps for musical fame back in 1960 in a band he formed with some
school friends: The Blue Jets. They played cover-songs of early rock
& roll-classics and Elvis Presley songs. In 1963 or thereabouts he
joined another Aalst outfit who called themselves The Mings.
This
adventure lasted another three years as it was in 1966 when he was asked
to join The Four Rockets as a second singer. This band was quite
popular in the dance hall-circuit and thanks to a manager they played a
lot of shows (even in France) while on some evenings they backed “Pop”
(Lou Deprijck) . On their setlist were mainly rock & roll classics,
The Shadows, The Beatles and The Stones with only very few self-written
songs. In 1967 The Four Rockets managed to release a single
(Mademoiselle / The Place Where She Lives) on the “Micro” label, while a
second one was recorded but never saw the light of day, as the original
tapes seemed to got lost.
Hugo Verhoye (b.1947.2.5.) came from a
musical family and started playing balls & pubs in 1960 and by the
time he was 15 he already had a band called The Rocking Stars. His next
drumseat was with the Paul Lynde Quintet where he met Paul Lambert
(b.1948.8.20 ~ d 1974.11.2) who was the organ player and via Josh Mondy
he joined around 1966 the backing band for singer Rocco Granata called
the Cardinal Show Quintet. This quintet was Hugo on drums, Paul on
organ, William on guitar, Willy De Bisschop (b. 1948.1.20.) on bass and
Rudy Van Impe on sax. Together they played a lot of shows for about
three years till one day in 1969, after a show in Brugge Hugo got fired.
Paul
and William decided to quit also and start a new band with singer Dirk
Diericks and guitar player Romain De Smet (ex The Mings).
They chose
to name themselves Voodoo after analogy from The Voodoos (their only
vinyl release was a 7” back in 1965), another Aalst-based band with
singer Dirk and guitar player Romain, who played cover-songs in the
dance halls since the early sixties.
(full version: belgianmetalhistory.be/irish-coffee/)
01. Can't Take It (04:07)
02. The Beginning Of The End (06:20)
03. When Winter Comes (04:53)
04. The Show (Part I) (02:54)
05. The Show (Part II) (03:02)
06. Hear Me (04:02)
07. A Day Like Today (06:54)
08. I'm Lost (04:33)
09. Masterpiece (bonus track) (03:06)
10. Carry On (bonus track) (03:13)
11. Child (bonus track) (03:44)
12. Down Down Down (bonus track) (02:40)
13. I'm Alive (bonus track) (04:13)
14. Witchy Lady (bonus track) (02:57)
15. I'm Hers (bonus track) (04:36)
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