Upon listening to Shake! Appeal various familiar sounds are grouped, rounded, composed, re-arranged, and regurgitated once again blaring out of my speakers, and you bet ya, as usual, there is a Ska sounding song involved.

Now I'm not saying I'm not a fan of ska music. Oh no, it's just that to a point I am slightly sick of it. I have spent a lot of time gigging in the south of France and let me inform you there are as many Ska bands there as there are sausages in the summer time!

So, nothing lavish, unique, or daring here. Generally speaking it doesn't really stand out from the rest of the gazillion bands that exist in the world today. Shake! Appeal can play well and the single is well produced. They seem young, so there will be plenty of time for them to grow and start adding the suprises to their music that were lacking on this effort. The single in question, 'CONTROL' is scarily catchy and I can imagine it will be a hit with the Soho Indie kids. I may even be found among them one evening upon a derelict dancefloor strutting my moves in my darkest and drunkest hour, mistaking Shake! Appeal for the Stone Roses or something of that persuasion.



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