Celebrity Chimp – Celebrity is the New Royalty
Celebrity Chimp are more of an experience than just a band. Watching them play live, as they basically act like total bastards towards one another, and as the pink and black-clad crowd leap around like muppets, I am actually reminded of what music was like when, instead of the internet destroying recorded music, recorded music was destroying live music.
Because Celebrity Chimp seem to be about more than just putting their albums on the record player. The extreme piss-taking mixed with the tiniest hint of seriousness in their songs actually requires that they become a shared joke. Watching the band bicker amongst themselves like an old, married threesome on stage, that wink of understanding between audience and performer again becomes obvious. If you get them, you actually almost have to become one of them.
For those of us who do not live in London, however, the music has to survive on its own merits, which it does with aplomb. You can, actually, just stick ‘em on like a pop song and hum along. The hooks and the rhythm are infectious and basically the whole thing is just one fucking great pile of boisterous fun. You can’t avoid the lyrics though, and the first time you listen you will inevitably find yourself thinking ‘What the fuck are they going on about?’ But then, that’s a large part of the point.
This is a five-song EP of banjo punk joy, and you’d be a fool to miss it. And if you can see them live you really, really should.
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Celebrity Chimp – Kasia (This isn’t on the EP, but I wanted another song to give you more of a taster, and two from a five-track EP seemed a little cheeky.)
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Love this EP! Porn Star is such an excellent song, really hope this continues to get good coverage…
They had the honour of being the 1st tune played on the 1st TWR WOXY broadcast, but due to the adult nature of the word FUCK we had to play the ‘radio edit’. Our first taste of being ‘radio’ proper.
It’s a cracker, though – ‘Plastic Girl’ is like The Proclaimers with a hard on. Brilliant stuff.
Plastic Girl is tremendous. Close your ears and refuse to hear the words and you could easily imagine you were listening to a bona fide pop song.
Porn Star sounds sexy
never heard that porn star song but glad i found if. It’s not as bad as i thought it would be just from reading the name