Dinner Party Punk: The Legacy

Ever since the release of their 1997 hit album, Dinner Party Punk, The Fishtraps have long since paved the way for a greater class of pure plaster-face punk pantomime. With serious moose-killing hits as Signals and Jimmy’s Song, the album is awash with demon guitar work and fuzzy, bacterial trickery. With lyrics like; ‘Some Celebrities they say, drink their own piss, turtles are hard backed, so listen to this!’ It’s no surprise that film director Robert Frisk decided to use Signals as the opening soundtrack to the movie Quane back in 1997. Following the lead of punk forefathers The Pissheads, lead singer Gary Gutters, famous for photographing the Loch Ness Monster in back in 1977, intends to work closely with old-skool rockers The Hypno Effect for the release of their next fictopop album, Muck Bullet. Rumour has it that The Fishtraps are headlining at the Sledge Festival in Edinburgh this year alongside bands such as The Unknowns, Taz rockers Shin Dig, El Tapea, and the spectacular Tom Delaney. The Fishtraps new digitally re-mastered album Dinner Party Punk is available in stores some time in July.

(Originally posted as 'Sleigh' in March 2007)