Cocktail Slippers - Live At Blaker Festival Norway  single

For over twenty-four years, Oslo, Norway’s Cocktail Slippers have been kicking out rock ‘n’ roll that’s mixing influences like no frills garage rock, punk and Sixties girl groups.  Currently in the studio finishing up album number six, they have released this two-track single recorded live at last year’s Blaker Festival.  Originally released on Saint Valentine’s Massacre, “You Do Run” has pop hooks and great vocal harmonies along with a punkier edge and a chorus that can’t help but bring to mind The Crystals’ “Da Doo Run Run”.  The flipside is a cover of Them’s “Gloria,” a crowd favorite that sticks pretty close to the original but is a bit looser and ragged in a live setting and also has a bit of a bluesier feel in their hands.  The quality of the recordings here is great and the performances are full of energy. The only real drawback is the fact that it’s only two songs when according to the press info for the single, the sound engineer actually recorded the whole show.  Hopefully we will be lucky enough to get the chance to hear more, but for now this is a nice stopgap to hold us over until the next album.  

(Wicked Cool Records)