Track Listing

1. The Girls Go Crazy   7:42

2. Climax Rag   7:06

3. St. Vincents Hospital   13:47

4. The Chant   7:58

5. La Grippe   7:31

6. Fidgety Feet   8:07

7. The Mooche   8:16

8. Georgia Swing   4:27

9. Wild Man Blues   5:02

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 More info & Reviews 

Hoodanger music lies somewhere between Bourbon Street, French Quarter, New Orleans and Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne. The sound belies description but is characterised by intense energy and commitment to rhythm and piss-take. The Hoodangers grooves and tunes are jazz-punk-funk based as they switch with ease from 100 year old classics to 3 minute Melbourne anthems.

Beginning ten years ago, the group quickly harvested a regular cult following among the poor and happy music fans and fun consumers of Fitzroy and Melbourne. Since then the band has put smiles on faces and sweat on backs throughout Russia, Central Asia, Scandinavia, Western Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand, India and Fiji.

The band has just returned from their fourth European tour and have recorded their long awaited first live album.  

 "it took Australians to give us a lesson in New Orleans jazz.......you'd think that they were punks - except that instead of electric guitars these six Australians played with a beautiful musical sense."

– Laurence La Presse, Montreal, July 8th, 1999

"The Hoodangers concluded the afternoon's proceedings with two feisty sets on the main stage and a short acoustic interlude. If The Hoodangers play trad jazz, it's trad jazz with attitude. But it's not the attitude you might expect, given their age- early to mid 20's - and their appearance - faded t-shirts, baggy trousers and mohawks. The members of this band approach their chosen repertoire from a position of knowledge and respect, and their instruments sing and swing with strong echoes of the jazz tradition. Yet they perfrom with such energy and wit that it's impossible not to feel this music is the product of current culture rather than moth-eaten memories. Chris Tanner's clarinet can swirl deftly in a graceful, carnivalesque waltz, but it can also shout stridently over the horns in the front line. And Mal Williams whips himself into such a frenzy that at times it looks like he's handling a jackhammer instead of a bango. These musicians never let their commitment to their art get in the way of their ability to have a good time. Their aim isn't just to play music, but to revel in the sounds they're creating, to push themselves into places they've never been before, and to let loose the Siberian tigers of their imagination. And that, really, is what jazz is - or should be - all about."

Jessica Nicholas The Melbourne Age 25th January 1999 

    You can visit their website or e-mail them via  ben@hoodangers.com