Flyscreen play big music. The stage is their kettle in which they brew rock pieces, punk morsels, grunge chips, metal shavings...In the end you're left with a stew, not for weak stomachs, not to be missed.
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"Having received favourable comparisons to Therapy?, Killing Joke and Fugazi, and toured with Girls Against Boys and Offspring, FLYSCREEN are shaping up to be as big as the latter two bands in a couple of years reckons Pippa Lang. "Oh, we want to be way above that by then!" responds an obviously confident Paul Karter."--Metal Hammer, December 1994
Flyscreen is confident and it certainly isn't unwarranted or unjustified. Flyscreen is a band that will become a household name and it won't be in reference to the back door...that's a promise.
Their music is tonic for that illness that neeeds rock, punk, metal and madness to cure it. Paul writes and sings lyrics about experiences. Real experiences, half true stories and that's what Kerplunk King is all about...Kerplunk King - a boy who wins and wins and wins at Kerplunk. Simple enough - he becomes the king. Wish you could take a tale like that and inject it with a welshman's penchant for storytelling, some deep bass, some rip, rip, guitar riffs, and a hook for everyone else to latch onto? Flyscreen can and does it good.
But words without action are meaningless, and live, Flyscreen deliver a short sharp blast of a set that will soon convince.
Kerplunk King is a track from the Flyscreen EP - Council Pop. Council Pop follows up their 1994 EP release, Dapbag.