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The Psychedelic Surf Outlaws
The Psychedelic Surf Outlaws, exist for one member 'Chris Triggs' from Old Colwyn which is a small village just outside of Colwyn Bay in North Wales, Great Britain. Originally for 14 years, they were known as 'The Psychedelic Surf Queens' born out of a song titled as such. The first album release in 1993 was the double album 'Divinity' which was released on November 22nd, 25 years to the day 'The Beatles' released their White album, thus, the Divinity albim is also known as 'The Red Album'. In those early days, all songs were self composed by Triggs, and recorded onto a 'Panasonic' tape recorder. Divinity was passed around friends and became quite popular in the local area. After this it was felt that the Surf Queens suffered by releasing to many albums, being accused of Quantity over Quality, and indeed for a few years after, barring the odd song, many albums suffered. Until in 1998, an improvement in recording was brought, they famous 'four track' tape recorder. The first album that followed was the 'An Afternoon With The Gods' album, which is looked back on as 'the big turning point'. The album took 5 painstaking months to prepare and record, everything had to right, and when finished, it soon became apparent that this was the best album yet. But realisitically, there was still a lot to learn. An urgency to improve was acted upon, and recording continued, ending with a 2nd album in '98, 'Slip on Down', which technically was superior to 'Gods' but the songs weren't. Then just weeks later, and E.P. release brought everything together, 'CMYK EP' had 3 great songs and the recordings sounded magnificent, the sense of achievement was so great that the EP found it's way onto CD, and was played on local radio, and 'somehow' turned up being invited onto 'Mexican' Radio in 1998. How this happened is still unclear, but it has been proven. Songwriting was on an all time high, and into 1999, a third album inside 12 months was recorded, 'Monkeymonkeymonkeymonkey' once more improved on techniques on the last album and good songs started coming through. Unfortunately soon after this the acclaims stopped coming, and for a good few years, albums were coming but nothing was happening, although a couple of albums, now available on CD, were reviewed locally with good words to say, especially the albums 'Disguises' and 'Emotional Rollercoaster'. Rollercoaster infact became the first album to be recorded digitally onto computer, but once again the songs were not that great, apart from a Radiohead type song entitled 'Mondayitis' which became a favourite amongst some local music journalists. More albums came, the magnificent 'Landed' which was a concept album was ignored, and this had an affect on the Surf Queens, there next 4 albums suffered the same fate. Until early 2006, the a compilation album entitled 'Gold' gained great notoriety in the localised area, and feeling rejuvaneted, the band began work on one of their best albums 'Love Conquers All', which took 7 months to complete, a great pop album, challenging all styles of music, from 'U2', 'The Beatles', 'My Bloody Valentine', 'Nirvana' and even included a cover of 'Pleasant Valley Sunday' from the Monkees, (imagine Kurt Cobain singing that). Positive vibes were garnered and 'Love Conquers All' is still recommended listening today, but then again, so is the follow up, 'Happy Days Are Here Again'. Considering the last album took 7 months, Happy Days was written and recorded all in the month of August 2006, the sessions produced a great variety of tracks from, Rock, Gospel, 'Electronica', 'Psychedelia', 'Blues', Indian and at last 'SURF'. It's a great little album to listen to and hugely enjoyable. The great feeling of elation was shortlived, when in 2007, Chris Triggs lost his job, and this unfortunately took it's toll on his music, a change in name happened first, when the 'Outlaws' were born. With time on his hands, a triple CD was undertaken, a project which he'd been meaning to do for over 10 years. 'Obsession' took 8 months to put together and 42 songs were recorded, another 40 songs remained unreleased. The album itself suffered for it's grandeur, many songs shouldn't have been released and it was said that CD3 should have been released on it's own! But you learn from your mistakes, but this was a biggy, the 80+ songs written in 2007 had taken there toll and the 'Festival' album of 2008 was a mighty failure, all 8 new songs on the album had no real enthusiasm, it also included 6 cover versions, ranging from 'Bob Dylan', 'The Beatles', 'Robin Gibb', the album was a disaster. But then right on the horizon of this album, the Outlaws covered 'Jan & Dean's' 'Surf City' which became incredibly popular on the internet site 'Jamwave.com', it went to number 1 on the 'Pop Chart' and the Outlaws began thinking of recording a 'back to basics'. The resulting album was 'Beach Party Live', not entirely a Live album, but altogether it's a fun album consisting covers by Jan & Dean and The Beach Boys and sold remarkably well on Ebay, being sold as a Tribute to all the great surf bands from the 60's. More importantly it gave the Outlaws a little breathing space to stockpile ideas and words for a new album. After releasing a single track before Christas, titled 'A Wish For Christmas', which did well on Jamwave and myspace, the band knuckled down to the new stuff. 'Jupiter Rising' the resulting album is now available on myspace.com/thepsychedelicsurfoutlaws, and has had some incredibly positive reviews, especially from there peers from the USA, and many homegrown talents around the UK.

Discography 93: Divinity 'The Red Album' (Double Album) 93: Land of the Golden Spheres E.P. 94: Onky 94: Catcher 95: Voyager 1 95: The E.P. E.P. 96: Boomerang 97: Head 98: To Lose in Toulouse (The World Cup E.P.) 98: An Afternoon With The Gods 98: Slip On Down 98: CMYK EP 99: MonkeyMonkeyMonkeyMonkey 00: Gone Neon Polar Axis 00: Fish 4 Sounds 01: Seventy 01: Red 02: Saturday Night Beaver (Double CD) 02: Disguises 03: Emotional Rollercoaster 03: For Boddah 04: Landed 04: Penarol 04: One Chance in Surburbia (6 singles) 05: Absolution? 05: Tonight 06: Gold (Compilation with new tracks) 06: Love Conquers All 06: Happy Days Are Here Again 07: Obsession (Triple CD) 08: Festival 08: Beach Party Live 09: Jupiter Rising