Sabato
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It
was march 1997 when, from the depths of the cerebral dead, shithole
little provincial city called Voghera, Italy, 4 young guys who grew
up on cheap alcohol, badass hard rock, metal and punk rock decided it
was time to start a band, basically to have fun, try to get laid a bit
more and kick the shit outta the imperant fuckheads in town. It was
time to start such a band in Italy, where when it comes to good music,
well, it's better shut the fuck up and forget. THE NERDS started playing
around in Italy, gaining a reputation of silly guys whose only interests
are crazy b-movie flicks, good ol' porn and loud rock'n'roll. Shortly
after, in early1998, they released their first 7", a split with the
great and now split up ORANGE JUICE FROM THE CRYPT, the only band in
Italy that really went along very good with them.
In
their first years, THE NERDS was more into the wildest side of '80s
punk rock stuff, such as ANGRY SAMOANS, early QUEERS, GG ALLIN & THE
JABBERS and more, and they released in the same year the first 7" on
their own, "Don't Like You" besides some tracks appeared on LP compilations
such as the tribute to Wimpy's Queers "Blow Out with History" that came
out on Booze Recordings.. Meanwhile, a new label was rising in the italian
underground, SCAREY RECORDS. THE NERDS was the first band to be on SCAREY
with "I wanna kill your plastic slut" 7" ep, the climax of their "traditional"
punkrock oufits, with 3 originals and a cover of GG ALLIN's "I wanna
rape you", shortly after followed by a 7" compilation in Sweden on KEN
ROCK RECORDS with THE GRABBIES from Italy and THE IDYLS and THE PRICKS
from Sweden.
In
those times the band played a lot around Northern Italy and began writing
down some new stuff that came out on their first full-lenght "Just because
she didn't wanna fuck", pressed in december 2000 by the dutch STARDUMB
RECORDS. The liner notes for the album were written from two new friends
for THE NERDS, Jeff Clayton from ANTiSEEN and Gerry Atric from THE BULEMICS...
the album is the beginning of a new period for the band, because they
left the usual punk rock stereotypes to put more power in their sound,
and they got even more feedback from people abroad, and in april 2001
they toured Holland and Belgium spreading their evil brand of rock'n'roll
and knowing some more cool people like THE SPADES, EL GUAPO STUNTEAM
and THE HOT ROD HONEYS to play and party with.
A
new split 7" with the FRANKENSTEIN DRAG QUEENS FROM PLANET 13 from North
Carolina came out about the same time, with 2 unreleasead tracks for
each band, and always on SCAREY, that's now the one and only label that
truly supports the band. Other tribute tracks came out on the SCAT BOY
RECORDS tribute to the Alice Cooper Band and some others will be released
soon on two GG ALLIN tributes, one outta Sweden and the other outta
North Carolina, USA.
March
2002 sees the band touring again the beautiful country of Holland, with
a final climax supporting ANTiSEEN in Haarlem during their euro-tour.
More general mayhem and weird stage stroies lead the band to the releasing
of the long awaited 10" with the TUNNEL RATS from New Hampshire in june
2002, and more upcoming projects are scheduled right now... so it's
better if you watch your back...
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