Anachronistic rockers keep it real At a time when music was often more about glam and glitz than actual substance, The Stray Cats, with their primitive instruments and deliberately retro sound and look, were a refreshing alternative to the New Romantic movement, and all that hair salon pop being played on the airwaves. Yes the… Read More The Stray Cats – Rant N’ Rave With the Stray Cats

At a time when most musicians were trading in their more traditional instruments for synthesisers and electric drumkits, it was rather refreshing to hear a trio of young rockers preferring to belt it out the old fashioned way, using equipment which was as primitive as it was antiquated. The Stray Cats’ first album, Runaway Boys,… Read More The Stray Cats – Gonna Ball