Now the Wheels are in the company of the Beau Brummels, the Chocolate Watchband, the Zombies and Thor’s Hammer. Like many who have bought Big Beat releases over the past 20 years, I came to the label knowing I would find great garage, beat and psych.
#ROAD BLOCS PLUS#
Don’t even get me started on the feral intensity of their beat-punk opus ‘Road Block’.īig Beat’s new Wheels collection comprises the A and B-sides of their three singles, released across 19, plus the remaining sessions they cut at Regent Sound this is their album, its great period design making up for the fact that these talented young men didn’t get to release one first time round.
Yet their band original ‘Bad Little Woman’ was picked up by Chicago garage deities the Shadows Of Knight, and in contrast they covered Paul Revere & the Raiders’ ‘Kicks’. The Wheels, however, were not American they were from Northern Ireland. ‘Road Block’ and ‘Bad Little Woman’ are garage-beat classics of which anyone raised on American “Pebbles” albums will be very familiar. Tough, shouting R&B vocals and crunching riffs from Belfast’s other great combo. Rave ups don’t come any wilder than ‘Road Block’ by the Wheels, who keep the party going on this CD of their complete output, 1965-1966.
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