Gore Gore Girls
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| Gore Gore Girls | |
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 Gore Gore Girls live in Mondragón, 2008.
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| Genre(s) | Garage rock |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Website | http://www.goregoregirls.com |
| Members | |
| Amy Surdu Marlene Hammerle Lianna Castillo Nicky Styxx |
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| Former members | |
| Paula Regalado Deanne Iovan Casey Dawson Jen Pirch Melody Baetens Jeff Klein Deb Agolli Monica Breen Cathy Carrell |
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Gore Gore Girls are a garage rock band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1997. The Gore Gore Girls first line-up included Amy Surdu on vocals and guitar, Paula Regalado on bass guitar, and Jeff Klein on drums. Klein left before their first single was released.
The band's name comes from the title of a 1972 B-movie by Herschell Gordon Lewis, which is a parody of the term Go Go Girls.
Like fellow Detroit bands The White Stripes and The Detroit Cobras, the band started out struggling through the local club circuit before being "discovered" by independent record label Get Hip Records in 1998. Their first single "Mama in the Movies" gained favourable airplay on college radio stations in Michigan, before they recorded their first full-length album Strange Girls, which featured Surdu with Deanne Iovan on bass guitar and Deb Agolli on drums and vocals. Agolli was subsequently replaced by Monica Breen and then Cathy Carrell from rock band Inside Out. Bass player Melody Licious joined from Broadzilla, in 2000. Up All Night, released in 2002, received positive press from the Village Voice and Detroit Free Press. Their current touring line-up features Marlene Hammerle on additional guitar, Jen Pirch on bass guitar, and Nikki Styxx on drums, which toured with The Cramps in 2005. Their third album is Get the Gore, recorded at Ghetto Recorders in Detroit, Michigan.
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[edit] Members
Current line-up:
- Amy Surdu - Vocals, guitar
- Marlene Hammerle - Guitar
- Lianna Castillo- Bass Guitar
- Nicky Styxx - Drums
Past members:
- Mayuko Morris - Drums
- Paula Regalado - Bass guitar
- Deanne Iovan - Bass guitar
- Casey Dawson, Vocals, bass guitar
- Jen Pirch - Bass guitar
- Melody Baetens - Bass guitar
- Jeff Klein - Drums
- Deb Agolli - Vocals, drums
- Monica Breen - Drums
- Cathy Carrell - Drums
[edit] Discography
Albums:
- Strange Girls (2000)
- Up All Night (2002)
- Get the Gore (2005)
Singles:
Other Compilations:
- Drunk on Rock 2! (2001) song "Hard Enough"
- The Patty Duke Fanzine] (2001) EP, song "Don't Just Stand There"
