Sleazegrinder checks in with today’s Track Of The Day with the fantastically named Dogs Bollocks. Click here for previous Tracks Of The Day.

Today’s exciting new track is from a gang of Swiss crazies called Dogs Bollocks. Which, thanks to a quick Wiki search, I now know means “Excellent – the absolute apex”. Well, right on. I dig a band with an arrogant streak. This newly minted cabal of sleaze-dealers have just released their first album, Smokin’. It is, indeed, the mutt’s nuts. It’s got a whole barrel of think, juicy riffs and a pungent whiff of 70’s ker-pow, and it makes you feel like your standing shirtless on a mountain top, with a broadsword in one hand and a half-empty bottle of something amber in the other. Manly stuff.

Dogs Bollocks is a supergroup, of sorts. Everybody is in another band, as well: Zamarro, Bitch Queens, Fucking Beautiful, and Phebus. This probably doesn’t sound that Super, unless you’re
A. Swiss
B. Seriously into Zamarro, Bitch Queens, etc.
C. Married or owe money to any of ‘em

But believe me, it’s pretty f*%#ing super, man.

We’ll get to the jam in question, but first, let’s get to know the Bollocks-of-Dog a little first.

So, how did this whole mess come together so seamlessly?

St Sebastian, bass: “About two years ago, on a moonless night, a new potion was created to free the rock’n’roll hound of hell. We put a cauldron full of riffs and beats on a blazing fire, added a dash of Zamarro and a pinch of Fucking Beautiful, stirred it 666 times before refining the smouldering broth with a spoonful of Bitch Queens and a smidgen of Phebus. And now, forever more, the night belongs to the howling beast.”

Poetic. So are the dudes in your other bands jealous of what you’re up to in Dogs Bollocks?

“Of course they are. They hate our guts and want to kill us, but not even our best friends’ jealous hatred will stop us now.”

It is true that in Switzerland, the streets are so clean you can eat off of them? And if so, do you consider this a detriment to being a filthy rock n’ roll band? I mean, are you ruining the neighbourhood with your antics?

“Unfortunately, it is true. But even here, the global financial crisis has hit home, and some of the trillions of street sweepers have been laid off. And yes, we do our best to shit on the historic cobble stones, puke on churches and beautiful museums, piss off the highest mountains and leave a trail of destruction in our wake, and of course we are corrupting sons and daughters around the country the instant they hear us. If they come to a gig they’re hooked for life.  We’ll turn the clean living Swiss citizens into depraved dogs bollocks slaves before they know what’s happened and then we’ll take the world. So watch out, your boring life might be over soon.”

Can Dogs Bollocks get you laid? Or does it have the opposite effect?

“Dogs Bollocks can get you laid, will get you laid, and must get you laid. If not, you’re doing something wrong. This is ‘Get-those-panties-off-in-a-jiffy’ music if there ever was.”

On a scale of 1-10, how Satanic is your band?

“Well, God’s a load of bollocks, so Satan must be too. So come and worship at the shrine of rock’n'roll.”

Done and done. Here, courtesy Dogs Bollocks, is their smash hit Rebel Reload.

Enjoy, and if you want to hear more, visit ‘em at www.myspace.com/dogsbollocksbasel

Sleazgrinder

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