07/10/09 - New album on Step 1 records.................
The Best Of Western Star Psychobilly Volume 1 out now on Step 1 records, it's got The Bad Detectives classic "Son Of Kong" on it. Buy it here.
30/06/09 - Mojo Honours 2009.................................
The fine people at Ford have issued a CD to tie in with their sponsorship of the Mojo awards, and guess what?......oh yes,we're on it. Ford Capri (everybody now - "Gonna get a new car, what will it beeeee........) nestles in with 5 other songs based on Ford cars, by the likes of The Steve Miller Band, Marc Cohn and Tom Robinson. Pretty good eh?
15/06/09 - Happy Valentines Day..................................
Don't know how it happened, but we're on this album:
'I'm In Love With The Mole Man's Girls' sits alongside alternative Valentines songs by the likes of Marc Bolan, Tiny Tim, ATV and The Creation. Fancy that. Download it here.
15/02/09 - New Album, The Butts Bugle, Rubber Biscuit photos..........
Well, we've nearly finished our third album, it should be out soon on Western Star Records, we don't have a title for it yet, but here are a few song title to tantalise you: "The Cerne Abbas Giant (Turned My Baby's Head)", "Binge Drinking Baby", "Big Hair Bouffant Groundhog Day".
We've also started a new blog called The Butts Bugle, where you can read all of the local news stories that "the man" doesn't want you to hear. You can also hear some of these on our monthly radio show on Frome FM.
Finally, there are some pictures in the gallery from a recent gig at the Rubber Biscuit club at The Lanes in Bristol.
25/11/08 - Free Album - Black Christmas!...................
This months issue of Bizarre magazine includes a free download of a 15 song Christmas album, featuring the likes of The Flaming Lips, Billy Childish, Twisted Sister, Jonathan King(!?) and us! Our song "Cadillac Under My Christmas Tree" has been hand picked for inclusion. It's really good, and it's free - go get it.
14/09/08 - Bikes'n'Leather - Rockin' At The Ace.....................
Out now on Cherry Red Records is a compilation celebrating 70years of the Ace Cafe. Somehow we've managed to get a song on it, Midnight Brighton Run sits alongside classics from the likes of Albert Lee, John Leyton and Twinkle. Buy it here.
08/07/08 - It's The Dunmow Flitch...............
While we're busy on the radio, the good people of Great Dunmow are readying themselves for the Dunmow Flitch Trials this weekend. We wrote a song for them, and they should be rocking out to it sometime during the celebrations, go to their site to find out what it's all about, it should be on our next album.
27/05/08 - Frome FM 2008...............
We're back on your transistors during the Frome Festival this July on 87.7 Frome FM. For those of you outside of Frome you can tune in via the website. We're on Fri 4th and then from Mon 7th through to Fri 11th from 10:30pm-midnight (BST). It'll be the usual nonsense we should imagine.
06/04/08 - Italian Review of B-Movie Beat...............
The Italian ezine In Your Eyes has reviewed the album, you can read it here. Anyone speak Italian?
Also, have a look at the updated reviews page for all the reviews of the album so far.
15/03/08 - The Bad Detectives Radio Show on WFMU.........
New York radio station WFMU broadcast a special edition of our radio show today. If you weren't in New York this morning to hear it, you can listen to it again here, and see the playlist here.
01/03/08 - Wireless news............
This coming Friday night (7th March) we're doing a one-off, internet only, episode of The Bad Detectives Radio Show. Listen in at the Frome FM website, we'll be on from 10 'till 12.
26/02/08 - New Photos..........
Two new photos in the gallery. The first one was taken at the Eddie Cochran weekender in 2005, where Henry and Andy were interviewed live on national BBC radio about our contributions to the Joe Meek Shall Inherit The Earth album. If you look closely - you can see fellow contributor Mike "Mr. Spooner" Berry in the background, waiting his turn. The other photo was taken at The Ring'O'Bells in Frome in January 1998 (10 years ago everyone!), we used to do a regular Sunday lunch time gig and get beer and a Sunday roast for our trouble.
14/2/08 - B-Movie Sweets.........
New in the shop - B-Movie Sweets. Bad Detectives Jelly Beans and Mints - grab them now before thay go out of date!
15/01/08 - Top 10 of 2007...............
Top Australian rock'n'roll mag I-94 Bar has a round up of it's staff and contributors top picks of 2007 - and we're in it.
Read it here..........hang on, I recognise that name!?
01/01/08 - 2 New Reviews...............
"My best find on this DVD" - review of The Western Star Promo Collection on Alcoholic Rats.com. Read it here.
"Absolutely dire" - review of B-Movie Beat on Die Shellsuit, Die. Read it here (he really hated it!)
23/12/07 - New live videos..............
Available now to view on our YouTube page, 4 brand new videos filmed at Farrington Gurney in November. Here is a little mini taster:
16/12/2007 - Following yet another mindbendingly generous and fullsome plug for the bad detectives contribution to the western star psychobilly and rockabilly promo collection on his bbc radio programme, We feel it to be appropriate that we pay tribute to Geoff Barker.
Geoff (legendary bbc radio d.j) has tirelessly plugged and supported every single bad detectives release to date and you can hear his most recent appraisal by visiting bbc.co.uk...type in geoff barker...type in listen again....and about 25 minutes into last saturdays show he spends about 20 minutes promoting western star records and the bad detectives contributions to it.
We love geoff barker and we suggest that you love him too.
13/12/07 - Western Star Psychobillies Vol 2 - Out Now!..........
"I'm In Love With The Mole Man's Girl" features on this new compilation from the home of the hits -Western Star Records. Buy it here.
18/11/07 - Radio Radio................
We're back on Frome FM from this Friday 23rd through to Sunday 2nd December, every night form 10 o'clock to half 11 (except Saturdays). Feel free to get in touch if you have any requests, we've got loads of new features and special guests lined up, it's gonna be great. Text us live when we are on air on 07972 078940.
If you miss a show , you can listen again on the Frome FM website.
12/11/07 - 2 More Reviews..................
"An exiting sound" from Americana UK, read it here.
"Recommended" by Music-Reviewer here.
05/11/07 - DVD out today!..................
The long awaited "Western Star Promo Collection DVD" is here, you can buy it direct from Cherry Red. There are 27 promos on it, including 3 from us. They are: "B-Movie Scientist", "Surfin' the Severn Bore" and "Alligator Rosie", you won't believe your eyes! Here is a little teaser:
30/10/07 - Classic American Review..............
Here is the review of B-Movie Beat from this months Classic American Magazine. They quite liked the first album........oh well.
24/10/07 - Download!.............
B-Movie Beat now available to download from Cherry Red. It's loads better than itunes and it's only £7.99 for the album, or 79p per song (why would you only want one song?)
16/10/07 - B-Movie Beat review on Melodic.net..........
Another good'un, where we get compared to Dr. Feelgood, Brian Setzer and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, read it here.
10/10/07 - The Bad Detectives on Radio 2..........
Steve Lamacq played "I'm In Love With The Mole Man's Girl" while he was sitting in for Bob Harris on Radio 2 last Saturday, you've got until this Saturday the 13th to listen to it again here
08/10/07 - Bluesbunny review of B-Movie Beat..........
"The more we listened to it, the more we liked it" - 4/5 Carrots from the Bluesbunny, read the review here.
04/10/07 - Another B-Movie Beat Review.........
This time from Toxic Pete: "I can't fault this album in any way; it's superbly done, irritatingly catchy and frustratingly unputdownable." Read the whole thing here.
04/09/07 - B-Movie Beat review...........
We've had the first full review of the new album, it's a "cracker", read it here.
28/08/07 - Rocking Rode........
We had a good time in Rode on Sunday, and as you can see, the crowd did too (the real action starts at 13 seconds).
06/08/07 - Alligator Rosie Pictures........
Last Sunday we took to the local swamp to finish off filming the promo for Alligator Rosie. While we were there, a professional photographer called Colin Ackerman turned up and took some pictures. A couple are in the gallery or you can look at them all here.
24/07/07 - Podcasts and Playlists........
On your left is a page called Radio Frome FM, this has all of the playlists for the radio programmes. And there is a Podcast player for you to listen to some of the shows without having to go to the trouble of downloading them and that.
15/07/07 - Henry's Blog.........
Henry has started doing one of those blog things. Read his regular ramblings here.
11/07/07 - Frome FM..........
So, we're slap bang in the middle of our run on Frome FM. If you haven't heard it yet, were on every weeknight this week from 10pm-11:30pm BST. It's been ace fun so far, you can even listen again to some of the shows by clicking here.
13/06/07 - Urban Lawns Review.........
We've had a nice review of our Urban lawns set at eFestivals.co.uk, read it here.
16/05/07 - Frome FM.........
We've just secured 6 hours of programming on Frome FM during this year's Frome Festival. We'll be on every week night from 10 -11pm playing an assortment of our favourite songs fom the last 60 years, along with some tunes from a few of our favourite local turns. More details nearer the time.
11/04/07 - Psycho Killers...............
When we were over at Western Star in January, Alan mentioned that he was compiling a compilation called "Psycho Killers" for Cherry Red records. He asked us if we had any serial killer songs that might be suitable for him to include, we said "no" but Henry said that he'd write one. So that night he went home and wrote "Texarcana Moonlight", brought it in the next day, we bashed through it a couple of times and recorded it, all done in a coulple of hours and it's ace. Buy it here, look at the lyrics here.
31/03/07 - New old photos in the gallery............
21/03/07 - Yes, but it's not exactly news is it...........
So, yesterday was the first big bore of the spring and we went to Minsterworth on the banks of the river Severn to do a bit of filming for our song "Surfin' The Severn Bore". ITV came along too and filmed us for a section on the evening news. It was absolutely freezing making it pretty hard trying to mime along to the song, and Henry faced some tough questioning but I think we got away with it. As soon as we've worked out how to do it, we'll post the clip. In in the meantime there are some photos in the gallery, and here is a video from one of our crazy surfing friends:
10/03/07 - Vintage Set List..........
Chris found this old set list from sometime in the early '80's. If you have seen us recently, you may recognise the first and last songs.
23/02/07 - Track of The Week
This week "Double Neck Guitar" is track (they mean song) of the week in the Americana charts at Garageband. This is quite an honour they tell us, apparently only 52 songs a year get this award, here is the badge to prove it:
Somehow it got into the Pop charts too, and we we got another track of the day:
09/02/07 - Family Tree
After months of hard work, we have finally finished the Bad Detectives family tree. It goes back quite a while, but remember, most of us were mere childeren when this all started! There are probably some mistakes, everyone is very hazy on dates and line ups, but this is as close as we're gonna get for now, click here to see it
04/02/07 - Radio Tasty
We're playing at the Urban Lawns Festival in May, and we have kindy given them permission to use "Trash Culture" as their featured song on their Myspace page.
20/01/07 - Western Star Studio
We've just spent a few days working on some songs for "B-Movie Beat" at the new Western Star Studio (There are some photos in the Gallery) . This video clip gives you a rare insight into the murky world of todays modern recording techniques.
12/01/07 - Old picture
Ralph has found a nice old picture, here it is.
10/01/07 - New videos in "Hero Worship"
We've found some nice clips of The Pretty Things, The Monks, The Archies, The Flyng Burrito Brothers, The Cramps and MC5 for you to enjoy. Watch 'em here.
07/01/07 - Garageband update............
Today "Sacred and Profane" is the Americana Track Of The Day.
"B-Movie Scientist" wins it's way into round 2 of the competition.
But despite being awarded "Most Original Song" on the whole site, "Ralph The Diving Pig" drops out of the contest (too experimental for them we suppose).
16/12/06 - No. 20 with a bullet..............
"Double Neck Guitar" is riding high in the Americana chart on Garageband, scoring us another "Track Of The Day"
09/12/06 - Track Of The Day............
B-Movie Scientist selected as "Track Of The Day" at Garageband
23/11/06 - CD Baby...........
Good news for American fans, 'Get Hip - Let Rip' is now available very reasonably from CD Baby, buy it here.
16/11/06 - Last of the videos for now.....
We've got a version of the hit single "Son Of Kong" for you, and another montage, this time of Great Balls Of Fire, Don't You Just Know It, Train Kept-A-Rollin', Louie Louie and Wipeout.
Thanks to novice director Steve for filming us, look out for some rather ambitious (beer fuelled) camera angles!
13/11/06 - Even more live footage......
Here is a little montage of Let It Rock, Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down, Flyin' Saucers, I'm A Hog For You Baby and Route 66.
If you can stomach some of the extreme close ups, it's worth a look.
07/11/06 - New video.....
A rollickin' live version of "Howlin' For My Baby" is on YouTube. ...see it here
30/10/06 - More Download News......
emusic is quite a good download site, you can see who has downloaded our stuff and what other bands they've had., Have a look here.
24/10/06 - More videos coming soon.....
Good news - Headliners The UK Stiffs have arranged for this Saturdays gig in Trowbridge to be filmed (but properly this time), so expect some more video clips soon.
20/10/06 - Recording Session
We have just confirmed some dates in January to vanish from normal life for a few days to record some new songs and put the finishing touches to "B-Movie Beat", our second full release.
Alan Wilson has recently finished building and equipmenting a new sound recording laboratory, so we felt obliged to book some time to go twiddle, press, mess and generally play with glowing things that we don't understand.
15/10/06 - Downloads......!Update!.....
Oh yeah, iTunes as well.
08/10/06 - Downloads......
We know that you kids like to download and there are many places that you can find our stuff. You can get each song for as little as 75p, and for completists, our compilation contributions are all available individually too. We highly recommend Cherry Red, but you could also try Wippit, Daily Snack, This Is London, Easy Music or 7 Digital.
01/10/06 - YouTube......
Hey! We've set up a YouTube account. Only one rubbish video on it so far, but I'm sure there will be more to come - have a look here
30/08/06 - Songs From 1981.....
Henry recently found an old tape of songs recorded in 1981, they are:
Incognito, Running Out Of Money - Running Out Of Love, Alibi Club and Teenage Monster
At least one of these songs made it onto one of the infamous "Sheep Worrying" complilations at the time, the rest have not been heard since the recording. As far as we can make out the line up was: Henry (Guitar/Vocals), Bunce (Vocals/Harp), Chris (Drums), Ivan (Bass), Ed (Guitar). You can listen to them and download them for free at their own Myspace page.
09/07/06 - Frome Festival.........
 | What a fantastic night! Thanks to everyone who came along to contribute to such a great evening. First up regards to Joss from Sonic Reducer who came along to man the decks during the evening and keep the mood flowing then it's hello to our good friend Ralph and his band Animals and Men who kicked the night off in fine style reprising songs from their early days and at least one fine new number. Our aim for the night was to play all self -penned songs from our back catalogue plus some that will appear on next years new release, all the songs seemed to go down well and even attracted some audience participation at times. Andy was in fine form kicking over beer and lurching at the crowd, Chris was using "eau de sweat" aftershave, Paul's thrash FAILED! to break a string and Ivan just pinned the whole thing down as usual. I just boggle that the whole thing comes together at all. Thanks to all of you who turned out to support us watch the websites for news - we should be flogging some merchandise soon in our own little disorganised way. Last thanks go to Nick and Naomi for giving us gigs and feeding us beer. Next saturday July 15th go out again and check out the Stiffs at the Griff'. |
31/05/06 - Ace Cafe...........
| Saturday night saw the official launch of Western Star's new release "Joe Meek Shall Inherit The Earth" at the Ace Cafe in London. The Bad Detectives deputation was in attendance enjoying the original Meek records being played by the D.J. and selected plays from the disc. There was a performance featuring a version of the Tornados and a chance to purchase copies of the album from hard working label boss Alan Wilson. The Ace is a fantastic place and bikers were dropping in and out of the car park throughout the day as did many classic cars and their drivers.The juke box seems to play back to back classic rock n' roll I advise you go there if you get a chance (try the breakfast). |
18/05/06 - Recorded Tracks..........
| Here is a list of completed tracks already recorded at Western Star this year. The bulk of these will make up the new c.d. in '07 although there may be an opportunity to record more before then. The titles are :- As time goes on i'll give an explanation of the subject matter of each song and post all the lyrics. |
16/05/06 - Joe Meek Tribute Vol 2
| I've just been listening to an advance copy of the new Western Star album "Joe Meek shall inherit the earth Vol 2" and it's even better than the first one. We have two tracks on the collection "What To Do" and "Leave My Kitten Alone" both songs were laid down by Meek's beat group the Syndicats and are later examples of his work. The whole collection is fantastic and contains contributions from John Leyton, Clem Cattini, Ray Fenwick,Graham Fenton, Ian Gomm (a particular favorite of mine), and even a track from Wurzels singer Pete Budd. Check out the Western Star website for more details. The album is being launched with a gig at the Ace Cafe London featuring the Tornados on Sat May 27th most of the Bad Detectives are attending and it should be a good night. Other artists on the recording will be there and of course main man Alan "Howling" Wilson. |
14/05/06 - Mells Barn
| The band played a rockin' gig at Mells Barn last night. The theme was Australia which saw the band wearing corks on their hats for part of the set.The hall was decked out with inflatable crocodiles, snakes and sharks with lots of other Aussie gear (flags, surfboards etc) adding to a great atmosphere in the room. We were groovin' to Rolf Harris on the disco and most of the partygoers were dressed in an antipodean stylee. The 'Tecs played two sets in our usual quickfire manner then chilled out with too many beers to drive home at the end so gig funds had to be raided for taxification. During the evening while Paul was spinning the tunes Chris was dancing around wearing the head from an alligator costume and Andy was trying to balance a beer glass on his head. Henry's hat made him look like a cross between Benny Hill and Hoss from Bonanza while Ivan as usual watched with detatched amusement. Good luck to Sarah and her family for their new life down under from the band don't drop yer Dingo down the dunny. |
24/04/06 - MySpace.....
We recently went live on MySpace which means that you can catch up with Henrys blogs, listen to more splendid Bad Detectives songs and meet loads of our (pretend) friends.
15/04/06 - Distribution.....
We have been lucky enough to do a distribution deal with Nervous Records through Western Star Records which means you can now buy "Get Hip - Let Rip" from many online retailers including HMV, WOOLWORTHS, TESCO and VIRGIN...
01/04/06 - New album is in progress.....
Yes, almost a year after "Get Hip-Let Rip", our first album proper was released, we are getting close to finishing our second offering. Release date is likely to be early 2007.
You will be pleased to hear that the new album will be less mature than the first one and hasn't been difficult at all to write...in fact we don't predict the arrival of the "difficult" album until 2012, and that will only be because one of us will probably have died by then.
