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Having spent the past year touring their debut record, these Southern 'anti-gentlemen' are crawling back into the swamp they came from to write a follow up to The Skeleton's Problematic Granddaughter.
Lazier men would rest on their booze soaked laurels.
But, being restless lunatics with a thirst for adventure and an ear for hip rattling cacophony turned to good use, the sinfully hirsute foursome are out to make their past selves feel ashamed at writing something that was merely the best record released in 2011.
What comes next - frontman WH Monks assures us - will be a record so wild as to completely disable the inhibitive habits that are instilled from birth in polite society.
"A blistering collection of mind boggling rock n' roll"
wrote Rolling Stone of The Skeleton's Problematic Granddaughter – word from the GP camp is that while they're still about the hardest rocking ruffians ever to crawl out of bed at 8pm, things are getting funkier in the most odiferous sense of the word and more soulful, if you can believe in black magic.
While writing album number two ("don't ask if it's another concept record", warns WH, "you'll get what we damn well give you"), Gay Paris aren't content to merely sit back in their subterranean studio of wonder and pen the shaking-est songs known to man (in the future), they'll be climbing up out of the mire like filth coated apes (in sharp threads) to continue their legacy of live antics that really do put most other acts to shame - no-one can act as shamefully as Gay Paris. Don't believe a damn word that the band says? Smart move, they're inveterate liars, so check out what reputable media types have to say.
"Maybe it's the unpredictability (and talent you would struggle to parallel) of the boys that brings their dedicated fans back no matter how much beer is poured on them."
musicfeeds.com.au
"It's about time Australia experienced a hard rock resurgence and Gay Paris could easily lead that revolution,"
Liveguide.com.au
"Matching an undeniable stage presence with their wild-eyed, swampy style of rock, it didn't take too long at all for the audience to lose their collective shit." Fasterlouder.com
Spending their formative days playing with every imaginable band from pretty much any respectable genre, from Karnivool right though to blues-perverts The Snowdroppers, 2011 saw Gay Paris venture out on their own, touring the east coast relentlessly.
With an audience grown via a mixture of live action shock, critical acclaim from media types and mothers, genuine interaction with fans and, of course, a ridiculously strange and ubiquitous on-line presence.
What started out as a rambling and quite likely intoxicated conversation between friends has become something much more frightening – and surprisingly enjoyable, even for the innocent bystander.