Fargo Promotions Present Superhooch Gallons of Gold Album Launch – Tellemahookah – Analogue Man – Coventry – Live Review

Fargo Promotions Presents – Superhooch Gallons of Gold album launch – Tellemahookah – Analogue Man – The Tin Music and Arts – Coventry – 27th June 2025

We reviewed the new Superhooch album this week and there was no way we were going to miss the album launch show, the first in a while to be promoted by Fargo Promotions who did a storming job with this bill. Fighting Boredom meet up in the pub down the bottom of the hill for a technical discussion and the Photographer insisted I drink cider against my better judgement. We crossed the bridge to the Canal Basin which for some reason the Photographer needed a bit of a rest after, scary, and then joined the groups of people outside the Tin, enjoying the early evening warmth and gently throwing insults at each other.

First band on are Analogue Man and the first thing that strikes me is that they have the singer from General, I’m not convinced that there weren’t various other members of General playing too. So obviously this could be a surprising treat. They start with guitar noodling and Graham saying stuff on the mic that I have no hope of understanding. Slow beats and guitar over the top, the fuzz starts and the vocals sound rich and wasted, the echo they’ve put on Graham’s voice is great. It’s a slow measured groove being led by the vocal but it doesn’t feel finished, it feels like they need a bit more of something. I mean, they’re by no means bad, just that they could be devastating.

The drums skip into another tune and the rest of the band come in, as dense as a patch of brambles. The song falters and then comes together led with an amazing blues rock’n’roll howl. The tune turns slow, lurching and chaotic getting stronger and harder as it goes. A fuzzed out Iommi riff and battering drums. It turns messy again but the vocal pulls it together. Graham keeps talking between songs, obviously stoked to be playing. They finish off with more big riffs and dense fuzziness and I reckon they will get better, a decent first band.

Tellemahookah have the best moustache in the building, a guitarist wearing a stoner tee shirt and a drummer that looks like he’s played his way through dozens of chaotic jam sessions. They start with a wigged out, fuzzed to hell and back psychedelic scrawl through White Rabbit and it’s as heavy as. They wallop straight into a huge stoner mass and the vocals are almost lost underneath the massive noise. The room is full and this mesmerising psych is filling it. It’s heavy and cool, what more do you possibly need. I am hugely enjoying this. It’s typical of Fargo Promotions to put a support band on to make me take a stunned step back and wonder why I haven’t seen them before.

They slow it down and an utterly devastatingly heavy distorted is unleashed. To paraphrase the great Lord Lemmy. Everything heavier than everything else. The resemblance to Motorhead doesn’t end there, they ooze rock’n’roll attitude, giving the impression that they really don’t give a damn. Yet they play like an adrenalized Jefferson Airplane with a stage full of distortion. I really like this lot. The bass turns loose, it slows down to a stoned and beautiful crawl. The drums are thunderous and the wah wah guitar turns to a wail of feedback. The feeling turns bleak and lost as the vocal takes you. But then slams into a huge heavy rock kicking.

No one has left the room, The feedback etches itself into your skull like the afterimage of the sun on your retina as the stoner rock flows on. They play on, a psychedelic break down obliterating everything else, a stoner fest that just takes you away. They could have played all night and we wouldn’t have left, a bloody great set.

This though, is Superhooch’s night. They have created this album bit by bit since the beginning of Lock Down and now they are going to share it with us. I’m unsure if I’ve ever seen Chris’s eyes, half Johnny Thunders and half Keith Richards, he is every inch a rock star. The rest of the band look the business too, they’re not pissing about tonight. They start with the sound of the best spaghetti western soundtrack you’ve heard in years and then the sound switches to synths and a low vocal, jerky rock’n’roll as the vocal gets louder and the groove turns hard. It’s a hard, deliberate slow paced rhythm then switches into a heavy stoned glorious rock. The bass is massive and the drums stutter along behind it. The overriding thought is that it sounds like when the Beastie Boys came back and started playing tiny gigs, that’s a good thing in case you were wondering. It turns heavy and the whole band are shouting. It’s stuttering again and then that turns into a punk rock guitar led explosion.

A sliding funk guitar sound goes into heavy heavy rock which quietens for the vocals and then densely layers on the sound in between. Just when you think that they’ve found a groove to stick to they switch around and do something else, it seems to be a Cov thing at the moment, I don’t know why, but it makes for some excellent music. They play an excellently epic stoner rock tune and then Chris asks everyone to get on their imaginary horses for the next track. Quite a few of the lunatics in here do exactly that. Then brilliant cow punk drums hammer out a beat and a hard core vibe seeps in at the edges as the band explode again. It goes from that into a mass of psychedelia and noise and then back into proper punk rock attitude.

They carry on, hitting us will more psychedelia, stoner rock and punky vibes, they play their arses off and the crowd are clearly on their side as it’s like a fan oven in the room and has been all night, Would You Like A Receipt With that sounds absolutely livid with angular riffage and destructive beats it almost verges on Hawkwind at the end it’s so far out there. They finish the set with what feels like an old fashioned dancehall tune, silly vocals and all, think the Kinks when they meant something, ace stuff.

Well I say finished the set, they ask if we want more and play two that are both loud and groovy, but I am by now melting away so watch them from the archway to the other room, I buy a CD and disappear into the slightly cooler evening air. An ace gig at a great venue.

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