Caffeine.
At last the baggy panted wallet chained contingent over here have a British band they can happily spit at KERRANG!
studded with attitude and some very fines tunes METAL HAMMER.
They've got balls of steel, I like fucking shit like this CHRIS MOYLES RADIO ONE in Melody Maker awarding Caffeine Single Of The Week.
London based skate-punk 3 piece Caffeine can be truly be called an international act, hailing from Rome, Sheffield and Cape Town they can only be described as original. In the last 18 months they have wowed crowds all over Europe touring with The Offspring, Blink182, Samiam, The Dickies and Zeke to name but a few. In 1999 they played to over 50,000 at almost 150 shows. They have sold 8,000 CD's in the UK alone and have recently done a deal with Sony/Sour Music in Canada for all their releases.
Following the success of their debut album What The Hell Am I Gonna Do When She Comes which contained their three singles so far Romance, You Spin Me Round and Kill The Brave and their appearances on Big Cheese magazines Deck Cheese 2, Channel 5's Rad Album, Org Radio compilation and a Metal Hammer cover mount. Caffeine have recently completed their second album Summer Salt Scheduled for release in the UK on Fluffy Freako Records in June 2000 it will follow their forthcoming fourth single On The Road Again which hits the shops mid Feb 2001.
that crossover hit surely can't be far away Kerrang!
Caffeine are:- Alain Iovine Bass/Vocals Jonathan Browning Guitar