The Penny Black Remedy
Alternative / Country / Rock

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The Band

Keith Thomson - Guitar / Vocals
Marijana Radcliffe - Vocals / Percussion
Steve Nelson - Bass / Vocals
Wilco van Eijk - Drums / Vocals

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The Penny Black Remedy - Finalists for the 2008 UK Indy Music Awards, Best Alternative Act.

The Finals will be hosted at The Kentish Town Forum on 25th April 2008 - see you there!

Thank you for everyone who voted ;-)

In The Penny Black Remedy, Keith Thomson seems to have found the perfect vehicle to express his world view...that life is full of dark, cruel things and unjust miseries, that it may come to a premature or unpleasant end, but that there is no reason not to embrace the situation and be cheerful, and live that life to its limits.

This band make a gleeful noise, dancing on graves and kicking away ladders, and Keith croons and snarls, roundly abusing the audience and pretty much anyone else, but in such an agreeable way that they always want more.

They bring a crowd, keep a crowd, and the crowd grows bigger, and livelier, each time another gig comes round, and more songs wash over them like petrol pouring on a barbeque.

Their Balkan country punk juggernaut exhumes Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Hank Williams, checks Nick Cave's pulse for continued signs of life, and sets all of them go-go dancing till the bars close and the street cleaners come to pick up the bones.