Holy Fuck were apparently one of the highlights of Glastonbury 2007. These guys play analogue electronica but with a pretty serious rock attitude supplied by a tight drummer (sometimes HF play with two drummers) and bassist.
Over the course of a 50min set the band built up a trance-like, psych rock collage of bleeps and buzzes but never at the expense of the melody. I'm not sure who the band officially cite as influences, but to my ears Neu, Spacemen 3, Add N to X, some early Big Beat records, the BBC radiophonic workshop and perhaps even Space Ritual era Hawkwind (obviously minus Michael Moorcock's space poetry and Nik Turner's unrelenting yelping sax ) were all in the mix somewhere.
I will definitely be checking out their album as soon as possible, but I can't help but think that their choice of name might inhibit chances of pop stardom.
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