Blackup consists of former members of FIFTY FOOT COMBO, THE ANDREWS SURFERS & THE FEATHER being Steven Gillis, Xavier Benoit, Miguel Moors and Piet Stellamans
Xavier comments : “ We all love those old punk and postpunk bands. So we just wrote songs that were straight forward, direct, to-the-point. We rehearsed, played shows, recorded the album. Next thing we know, Jon Spencer wants to work on our album together with Ivan Julian. Jon is known of course from the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Pussy Galore, Boss Hog and many other outfits. And Ivan was the original guitar player in Richard Hell & the Voidoids. When we heard about the Voidoids reference, we nearly lost it. The great Pieter van Buyten (bassist in Flip Kowlier’s band) recorded and did the final mix ! Needless to say, we were stoked. Major stoked ! Then John Reis (Rocket From the Crypt, Hot Snakes, Sultans, Drive Like Jehu...) asks us to join the Hot Snakes on their fall 2011 dates in Europe ! How can we say no to the Swami !!”
For fans of : Wipers, Saints, Nervous Eaters, Stranglers, Magazine, Wire, The Jesus Lizard..