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| Friday, January 9, 2009 - Bass player wanted | Drugdealercheerleader are looking for a new permanent bass player! London based, signed to Pebble Beach/Pinnacle and with 3 singles (one of which went top 100 in the UK) and an acclaimed album under their belts the band have extensively toured the UK and gigged as far afield as New York City supporting The Wildhearts. They're gonna be doing some pretty intense songwriting and rehearsing over the next couple of months culminating a 5 date UK tour and then the recording of the 2nd album.... If you're a bass player (m/f) or know someone who might be interested in auditioning contact via Myspace at www.myspace.com/drugdealercheerleader Singing Bassists get a special star!
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| Monday, July 28, 2008 - Drugdealer Cheerleader news | Drugdealer Cheerleader have re-launched a new-look website at www.drugdealercheerleader.com and have a myspace site at www.myspace.com/drugdealercheerleader where you can listen to some of the tunes from the album 'Enjoy the time you waste' (buy online here or pick up a copy in HMV).
Drugdealercheerleader release the first single 'Gimme Some Love' from the album - re-recorded and edited for the rock n roll dancefloor! The B-side features the controversial live favourite 'Britain's great'. Pre-order the single here
The band are on the road in support of the single release. DdCL will have Laney from Teenage Casket company on bass duties, Sam singing BV's and a bevvy of gorgeous cheerleaders at each show.
DRUGDEALER*CHEERLEADER UK 'Gimme some love' TOUR
25th July - Uxbridge Crown & Treaty (support Patchwork Grace)
26th July- Manchester Bar Academy (with Dear Superstar)
30th July - Glasgow Rockers (with Peep show & Dear Superstar)
1st Aug - Barnsley Arches (with Callus & Slash Vegas)
2nd Aug - Nottingham Salutation Inn (with Dear Superstar & Peep show)
3rd Aug - Grimsby Yardbirds, (with Dear Superstar & Peep show)
7th Aug - Leeds Cardigan Arms (with Peep show)
8th Aug - Basingstoke Great Western (with Peep show & Riot:Noise)
10th Aug - London, Kentish Town Bull & Gate (with Peep Show + Dead Monroe)
14th Aug - Bristol The Louisiana (with Riot:Noise)
15th Aug - Gillingham Beacon Court Tavern (with Thrashtown Thrillers and Daz Rigo)
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| Friday, June 29, 2007 - Drugdealer Cheerleader album and tour news | "Sticky glam punk and roll bubblegum is back!" (Paul Travers, Kerrang!)
Drugdealer Cheerleader will release their debut album on 3rd September 2007 through Pebble Beach Records. Leading up to the album release a 20 date tour of England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland is planned. If you have the chance to catch these guys in action be sure to grab it. The band promises "a rollercoaster ride of carcrash rock n roll with dancing cheerleaders and entertainment a go-go!!"
Tour dates:
Jul 7 2007 8:00P - Loom Room @ The Plough. Witney Nr Oxforod Witney, Nr Oxford
Jul 11 2007 8:00P - Buffalo Bar, Cardiff Cardiff, Wales
Jul 14 2007 9:00P - The Purple Turtle London, London and South East
Jul 17 2007 8:00P - Rainy&39's Ramsgate Ramsgate, South
Jul 19 2007 8:00P - Under The Boardwalk, Sheffield Sheffield, Midlands
Jul 20 2007 8:00P - Days of Fire Festival, Worksop Worksop, Midlands
Jul 25 2007 8:00P - Album Launch Party London, London and South East
Jul 28 2007 8:00P - TBC TBC, Northeast
Aug 3 2007 8:00P - The Loft Cambridge, London and South East
Aug 4 2007 8:00P - Wildside @ Junktion 7 Nottingham, Midlands
Aug 7 2007 8:00P - The Fly London, London and South East
Aug 10 2007 8:00P - Crown & Treaty, Uxbridge Uxbridge, London and South East
Aug 16 2007 8:00P - Rockers, Glasgow Glasgow, Scotland
Aug 17 2007 8:00P - TBC Stockton, Northeast
Aug 18 2007 8:00P - Electric Circus @ Rosetta Stone, Belfast (tbc) Belfast
Aug 21 2007 8:00P - The Bull & Vic Dartford, London and South East
Aug 24 2007 9:00P - Gasworks Bar Bradford, Northeast
Aug 25 2007 8:00P - Going Live T/C's Niteclub Carlisle, Northwest
Aug 26 2007 8:00P - The Three Blackbirds Hemel Hempstead, London and South East
Aug 31 2007 11:00P - Rock the House Aftershow Party, Nr Leeds Nr Leeds, Midlands
Check out the newly revamped official website or the MySpace site for a taste of their music, including the new single "X E Cute My X".
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| Thursday, February 9, 2006 - Drugdealer Cheerleader up-date | Some major goings on in the Drugdealercheerleader camp at the moment. If you've recently been on the website you'll have seen that Shannon has left the band but don't worry we're working with some great guys at the moment and a permanent replacement will be announced soon!
The band meanwhile are in the studio this week recording some new material - watch the site for updates on how this all went. Then next week Drugdealercheerleader play following shows:
14th Feb - Silks Bar - Basingstoke (with Teenage Casket Company andDangerfields)
16th Feb - Ginglik - Shepherds Bush, London (showcase show)
Joining the boys onstage for both gigs on rhythm guitar will be Richie Hudson from UK punkpopsters Kitty Hudson!
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Official Biography
"Pyrotechnic riff dealers from London who sound like some gasoline-swilling supergroup made up of a couple of Backyard Babies, half of UFO and Angus Young's penis. Between the name, the rock star looks and the searing arena-glam guitars, we figure Drugdealer Cheerleader are six months away from superstardom, so start pretending you've been into them forever now."
Classic Rock Magazine (May 2006)
In an increasingly over-polished, contrived and self-referential British music scene, it seems everyone is chasing their tails to find the Next Big Thing.
How about a band that are unashamedly flying the flag for joyful, pogotastic, balls-out rock and roll? One with the soul of Guns N Roses, the spirit of Motley Crue with the glam of The New York Dolls? But all rolled into a new kind of good-time rock for the 21st Century? Yes? Look no further then and welcome, in a very real sense, to Drugdealer Cheerleader.
This London-based four piece have already been built up a strong fan base through hard gigging with an incendiary live show and despite being unsigned, have been showered with praise from the likes of Classic Rock, as you can see above from their April issue, as well as Xfm, Heat and Kerrang!
 Want a personal introduction? Drugdealer Cheerleader are:
Hilda - Vocals
Neil - Guitar
Liam - Bass
Ringo - Drums
Flamboyant Yorkshire frontman Hilda and hard-hitting West Midlands sticksman Ringo first met at university and went on to form Waterbratz! and Glitterbug respectively. Both bands sank without much of a trace, and Hilda and Ringo ended up selling their souls but paying the bills playing in a covers band.
It was then that they stumbled across genius guitar player Neil. As Hilda explains: "I was scared of him at first. He seemed really cool and unapproachable. That probably explains his lack of luck with women actually."
After Spinal Tap drummer-type problems with a never-ending stream of vanishing bassists, the trio finally found their match in Londoner Liam who emailed them out of the blue and told them he was the man for the job.
So at the start of this year and with a brand new plank-spanker, the furious four set about defining exactly what their band should be about.
Over to Ringo: "We wanted to take the influence from music that we'd always liked and without sounding corny, to give it our own sound, a sound of today rather than a retro thing. And we wanted to be a gang. We're tight knit as a unit. If you have a go at my mate, you're going to have another four of us having a go back at you."
More importantly, the band just want to play music they love. They don't want to be a part of any current trends and don't give a flying Fender about being fashionable. As a result, they can be a bit of a Marmite band, but live, it's hard to ignore their mix of melody, energy and maximum power, as Hilda testifies: "I defy any other band to play a live show that's as entertaining as us. Anyone who comes to see us, whether they're into pop music, metal, jazz whatever, they'll enjoy our show. But again, if they give the music a chance, they might like that too."
The bands influences range from the likes of The Stooges, T-Rex, the hair-metal pop riffs of the Eighties, through to U2 and the more unlikely Manic Street Preachers or the grunge bands of the Nineties.
As Hilda elaborates: "We take something from each era of music and add all the ingredients together and make some kind of smashing pie."
The fans - The Cheerleaders - certainly agree, as Hilda explains: "They do tend to throw themselves at us at every opportunity which is a real handicap. We can't get to the bar."
Their debut single I Don't Wanna Go To School is a great introduction to the band, musically as well as taken as a mission statement. This is high-octane good-time rock with a grin on its face, a pair of ridiculous trousers and a bottle of Jack Daniels in its hand. It sure as hell aint The Arctic Monkeys or The Kaiser Chiefs.
As Hilda explains: "I don't want to grow up, that's why I want to be a rock star. 'School' here can mean your job, a workplace, it doesn't have to be your teacher telling you off, your fucking boss tells you off. School and work are exactly the same. You're going to listen to this song and you're going to jump up and down and go crazy at it."
With a European tour in the pipeline and a clutch of festival appearances coming up, it looks like you'll soon get your chance to get your own hit of Drugdealer Cheerleader. The party starts here, as Ringo and Hilda explain.
Ringo: "It's just the start of a crazy rollercoaster ride. Or maybe a waltzer."
Hilda: "Or maybe the Pirate Ship! We're just a huge fairground attraction. Come to our show, and we'll give you every ride available. But the fishing for ducks, we'll leave that to Coldplay."
Jody Thompson April 2006
What other people have said about Drugdealer Cheerleader:
"An explosion of snotty attitude crossed with great songs"
Steve Beebee, Kerrang
"Slick, glam, metallic sackfuls of energy and a real sense of rock 'n' roll. The singer reminds me a bit of Paul Draper from Mansun. No bad thing."
Eddie Temple-Morris, XFM
"They are the definition of everything that is great about a rock'n'roll band - energy, songs and showmanship."
Mark Frith, Heat
I Don't Wanna Go To School is out at the end of June through Pebble Beach, distributed by Pinnacle.
www.drugdealercheerleader.co.uk
www.myspace.com/drugdealercheerleader
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