THE WUPPERTAL BAND OF THE “56# ALLEY CHAPS” FORMED WHEN SERGE BAXLEY DECIDED TO DEDICATE HIMSELF MORE TO NEO-BILLY AFTER LEAVING “SCUM RATS”. THIS COULD BE REALIZED (WITH OLD FRIENDS) IN 2002. FROM THERE ON THE BAND DEVELOPED THEIR OWN CHARACTERISTIC STYLE, "NEOBILLY ROCK", TAKING PATTERN FROM 80IES NEO ROCK-A-BILLY AND BEEING INFLUENCED BY PSYCHOBILLY, COUNTRY AND MELODIC ROCK.
IN THEIR PRESENT FORMATION THE “56# ALLEY CHAPS” ELECTRIFY THEIR AUDIENCE WITH SONGS, MOST OF WICH THEY HAVE COMPOSED THEMSELVES .
THEY PLAYED AS SUPPORT FOR THE FAMOUS (LAST BUT NOT LEAST AS JURY IN THE VOICE OF GERMANY) ” THE BOSS HOSS”, THE WELL KNOWN “BOPPIN B” AND PLAYED TOGETHER WITH THE “WASHINGTON DEAD CATS”, “RADIACS”, “MAGNETIX”, “69 BEAVERSHOT” AND MANY MORE.
2010 THEY RELEASED THEIR FIRST NEOBILLY ROCK ALBUM "TICKET TO THE END" On “CRAZY LOVE RECORDS”. FROM THERE THE “56# ALLEY CHAPS” ABSOLVED SOME HOT ROCKIN’ GIGS AS HEADLINER AND PRESENTED BRANDNEW STUFF FROM THEIR UPCOMING ALBUM “WORLD OF SHADOWS”. THIS ALBUM IS RECORDED IN THE SAME STUDIO LIKE THE FIRST ONE, AND THE STUDIO OWNER MATTHIAS FINGSCHEIDT, WHO MIXED THAT STUFF, IS DRUMMING AS MAIN DRUMMER FOR THE “56# ALLY CHAPS” SINCE 2012.
SOMETHING HAPPENED TO SERGE AND THE GUYS, SO THAT THE NEOBILLY ROCK BECAME MORE DARKER ON “WORLD OF SHADOWS”. WITH A LOT OF ROUGHNESS, SOME MIGHT SAY MORE INFLUENCED BY PSYCHOBILLY AND INDIE-ROCK. PSYCHOBILLYS, NEOROCKABILLYS, GREASY PUNK’N’ROLLERS AND OPEN MINDED PEOPLE SHOULD BUY THESE 15 TRACK ALBUM. IT WILL BE ABSOLUTELY ASS-KICKIN´. THE RELEASE OF THEIR SECOND ALBUM "WORLD OF SHADOWS" WILL BE 06.09.2013 ON SASCHA WOLFF’S FAMOUS LABEL “WOLVERINE RECORDS” !
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