Shredd & His Shredders release debut album!

Taken from Meringue! magazine.

Shredd & His Shredders, led by frontman Antony Lusmore, good friends of all the original members of the world famous band Runtime Error, released their first album "Rootin' Tootin' Rodeo", today. The album was announced 12 years ago, but in an interview with Antony Lusmore, he informed us that he "really couldn't be arsed to record it."

Lusmore admits RTR "should've been done long ago, but we [the band] never got round to it." He describes longtime friends Runtime Error as "a brilliant help in making the CD, the original members especially. Jakey and Cactus dropped in now and then, and I saw Eifion and Brandon once or twice. I didn't meet Kevin or Joey unfortunately - Kevin is still in jail (I think, he definately was while we were recording this) and Joey is a busy guy with his movie business. He is currently working on an RE movie which I am making a cameo in, which should be fun.

"Jakey, like I said, came by a lot, and he actually did the artwork for this album, with some help from our good friend Stevo Fisher, who has featured on the cover of a few of RE's albums in the past. Also, on the way out of the recording studio, he got electrocuted. I can't remember what happened exactly, but his screams of pain somehow got recorded, and ended up on one of the songs. Which means I had to credit him as a composer, and he now gets royalties for my albums, the man of limited inheritance. But I am happy with the end product, and I am looking forward to getting back into the studio for the next album"

Rootin' Tootin' Rodeo is out now via Tesco Records.

Rating: MMMM




TRACKLISTING: (All Songs by Antony Lusmore unless stated)

01: "Mimes Suck" – 4:12
02: "Spyro the Dragon" – 2:10
03: "Muriel" – 6:45
04: "Bongos" – 8:21
05: "Electrosis" (Lusmore, Adjtuant) – 4:26
06: "Sleeping In" – 3:14
07: "Holiday in Algeria" – 4:39
08: "Pirate Funk" (Lusmore, Fernando von Arb) – 5:56
09: "Sex Spider" – 5:02
10: "My Hands are Wet" – 3:37
11: "Jew" - 11:31


The only official member of Shredd and His Shredders is Antony "Shredd" Lusmore. The people who helped record this album are Carlos Santana, Shawn Drover and Fernando von Arb.

Tracklisting is up. Mimes Suck was great fun to record, and Sex Spider was amazing too. Jakey's screams of agony really go well in Electrosis, they basically made the song. Muriel is our attempt at an anthem, and the five minute bongo solo in Bongos was just us pissing around, and we decided to make a song with it in. Spyro the Dragon was a brilliant game, and I decided to dedicate a song to it. The origianl ones made by Insomniac, not the crappy other ones.

Pirate Funk is definately my best song on the album, I think it sums up all of these past 12 years into 6 amazing minutes. the solo nearly made me cry, Fernando von Arb came in to help record that, and it was amazing. I'm considering asking him to join the band.

We're already working on a new album, so look out for that coming soon!

Tesco Records? Tesco aren't a record company, doofus.

Oh, and Kellogg's is?

Shredd and his Shredders wrote:

Oh, and Kellogg's is?

*Sigh* Dude, the 80s is over.

Fine, I'll find a record label that actually exists for the next album.

Shredd and his Shredders wrote:

Fine, I'll find a record label that actually exists for the next album.

Good idea.

The next Shredd & His Shredders album will be released under Sound Riot Records, a REAL record label who have the REAL band Svartsyn.