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new albun
out now on ocker records
thru green media
According to VeeBees’ bass player Glenno the new albun Roots’n’Blues is a complete departure from the last studio albun Crack Us
Anotha. “Roots’n’Blues has got twelve songs on it. Crack Us Anotha only had nine!”
The self-styled ‘thinking mans band’ have obviously been putting some thought into that one. “It’s called progression in show biz”
And so what else is different about this albun? “Not much, these songs sound as dated as the first songs we wrote ten years ago and let
me tell ya, that takes some doin’. It goes to show that rowdy rock’n’punk’n’roll never goes out of style. Mainly coz it never really was IN style!
This stuff will still sound great in another twenty years”.
Roots’n’Blues is the VeeBees fifth albun and yes it is albun. The VeeBees do not make albums, they make albuns. Get it right. “Everyone
I know knows it’s ‘albun’. Just like everyone I know knows that our new song ‘Brewery Tour’ should be called ‘Buery Toowa’. It‘s down right
un-Australian to call that stuff anything else” says Glenno “and only a complete dickhead would”. And The VeeBees know a fair bit about
being Australian. A fair bit about being dickheads too for that matter.
Amongst other things these blokes have been Roo shootin’ with Ned Kelly, wrestled crocs with Dawn Fraser, and drummer Tommo once
bowled a wrong ‘un into Don Bradman’s block hole.
2010 sees The VeeBees turning ten years old and the boys are still going strong. To celebrate the occasion they booked themselves into
a studio over the Australia day long weekend and recorded a new album, Roots’n’Blues. It’s the product of 5 hard years of research into the
history and concept of Aussie roots’n’blues. The results are in and to be perfectly honest, they have abso-bloody-lutely fuck all to do with
John Butler, Xavier Rudd and all those other tender do-gooder crybaby hippies. No, what has become apparent is the true concept of
roots’n’blues. Handed down from our rock’n’roll forefathers Lobby Lloyd, Pete Wells and the Young brothers, is the legend and fact that
Aussie rock’n’roll was built on rootin’ an’ bluein’. Fuckin’ an’ fightin’. That’s all there was to do in the old days! Rip into the 6 o’clock swill and
then root or blue ya way home! So the roots of Aussie rock’n’roll has its feet firmly planted in the pub. Any pub, anywhere, anytime, it doesn’t
matter. The rock’n’roll spawned from the seedy pub scene of the 70’s and 80’s was ingeniously named ‘Pub Rock’. Rock played in a pub.
What an innovation! The pub is the home of roots’n’blues.
The VeeBees feel a national obligation to keep history alive and to set the record straight, taking the word to the streets via a concept albun
with a deep heartfelt message. The albun Roots’n’Blues is 12 songs of genius Aussie Grog Rock, showing that these blokes are starting to
get the hang of it after a decade of occasional practice and sporadic gigging. Moronic genius some say. The band motto ‘4 blokes, 3 chords,
2 brain cells and a carton of beer’ is starting to pay off.
The boys aren’t running out of ideas just yet either and one new innovation is sure to become a rock’n’roll standard. Every rock’n’roll band
in the world has rhymed the words ‘rock’n’roll with ‘saves your soul’ and it’s getting very predictable and bloody stale. The VeeBees once
again raise the bar and breathe new life into the genre by rhyming ‘double plugger’, ‘budgie smuggler’ and ‘your mother’. How the hell this
has never happened in the history of rock’n’roll is absolutely mind-boggling! Moronic! Genius!
New songs “I’d Rather Be On A Brewery Tour”, “Pocket Pool’” and “Three Thongs” prove that the research and development of roots and
blues has certainly paid off. “It’s an endless supply of inspiration”, says vocalist Norro, of Thirsty Thursday Happy Hour down the local. “I get a coupla new song titles every week!”
Roots’n’Blues and all VeeBees albuns are available on Ocker Records through
Green Media or on this website. For more information
contact glen@veebees.com.au.
Well it’s all been happening here at Vee Bees HQ.
Ahhh…..good ol’ Vee Bees HQ!
The trusty Vee Bees HQ!
Don’t be mistaken about Vee Bees HQ.
And don’t be surprised about Vee Bees HQ
True, The Vee Bees HQ is The Vee Bees Head Quarters.
But most importantly, the HQ is the HQ.
It’s the HQ panel van up on blocks out the back of the shed.
There’s rust in the quarter panel and the big end is shot.
The diff’s up the shit and there’s a hole in the block.
The rats have moved in and the interior is fucked.
But it’s where we wrote ‘Whaddya reckon About Me Ute?‘, and ‘C‘mon Cunt‘.
It’s like hallowed ground.
Like sacred ground.
It’s the alter from which The Vee Bees preach the good word!
VBHQ!
And hallelujah brothers and sisters!!
Hallelujah!!
We have seen the light!!!
Confused yet?
To make things a bit clearer we’d like to welcome you to:
The Vee Bees Official Bullshit Act 2007
We have never thought, ever.
We have never thought of ourselves as being believers.
We have never thought of our songs as being hymns.
Not until we met the big fella in person. The big fella, the spreader of the good word and the do-er of good deeds. The high priest of horsepower, and the Cardinal of Customisation of Cars.
Of course we’re talking of Chic Henry, organiser extraordinaire of Australia’s biggest Street car festival, The Summernats. Chic has shown us the one true way and we are in preparation for an experience that will rival the second coming.
And so it has come to pass that Chic has shown us the one true way, and encouraged us to spread the word. He has invited us to a fair dinkum Church. The Church of Jack Daniels. The Jack Daniels Bar at The Summernats 2008. We will be there. We will be spreading the good word and we will be bringing along hymn books. Hymn books for youse brothers and sisters. For youse to read and know the good word. And for youse to join in with The Vee Bees hymns so that you too may see the light!
A typical hymn of The Vee Bees goes something like this:
HYMN 69
(Drive Thru Bottlo)
Driving down the driveway in me shitbox
I crunched her into first
Drivin' real slow, me arm's out the window
I'm not gunna stop, I'm gunna GO! GO! GO!
Going for me wallet thats in me hip pocket
But I'm sitting on it
Still it's a thrill when I get to the till
And grab meself some cans
Hey mate! Chuck it on me tab!
Down the
Drive Thru Bottlo, Drive Thru Bottlo
Drive Thru Bottlo, Oh yeah, Oh yeah
Drive away down the driveway, drive thru the drive thru
I'm workin' up a thirst
I'm gunna go..I'm gunna go
I'm not gunna stop, I'm gunna GO! GO! GO!
Trying to make up me mind about what I'm gunna buy
But I can't decide
And it's lucky I brought the you beaut ute
Cos the hatch back jap crap got no boot
Down the
Drive Thru Bottlo, Drive Thru Bottlo
Drive Thru Bottlo, Oh yeah, Oh yeah
Going to a barby, going to a show
Gunna drive thru the drive thru.......Bottlo!
Going to a party, hanging round at home
Gunna drive thru the drive thru.......Bottlo!
If you don't know what to do, you don't know where to go
You'd better drive thru the drive thru.......Bottlo!
If you haven't got a car you'd better have a bloody go
At walking through the drive thru...........Bottlo!
Drive thru bottlo, Woah-oh-oh
Drive thru bottlo, Woah-oh-oh
Drive thru bottlo, Woah-oh-oh
Drive thru bottlo, Woah-oh-oh
Oh yeah!
More hymns are located on this website under ‘Words’.
We look forward to choir practise at the Jack Daniels bar with you.
And in clause two of the Official Bullshit Act 2007 we find that The VeeBees are international superstars. Since our distribution deal with Undertow Records we have been receiving rave reviews and Glenno, the most articulate of the band was recently interviewed by a leading European magazine. We didn’t understand a word of it because it was printed up Germanic Dutch Belguishness. If you speak this language please get in touch and you could be our official interpreter. Drunken mumblings don’t count. If this international rock star business keeps up we may soon find ourselves having to move to Tasmania for tax reasons, and to escape the screaming unwashed masses recognising us in the street.
Clause three, sub section six, sees The Vee Bees appearing on pay TV in Australia.
Blokes World are on the case and will be using our music on their new series running from Aug 07 - Feb 08. They will also be playing us on Blokes World s music show. Both on Foxtel. Rumour is that they blokes will be at The Summernats heckling us from the bar.
Aurora TV will be playing the fillum clip for ‘Drive Thru Bottlo’ on their ‘Music Clip’ and ’Shot’ shows on Foxtel, Austar and Optus TV in the coming months. Not bad for a band that has played barely a hatful of gigs this year ay?
Moving on, we have made obtaining our snazzy, fashionable and bloody grouse merchandise a whole lot easier. We now have a PayPal account which means that you can buy our stuff offova us bloody easy over the net. Max out that credit card on important stuff! Check out our ‘Stuff’ section on this web site for details of how to work this fine piece of modern technology...
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