The Hydromatics is an American
garage rock supergroup formed by Nick Royale, Scott Morgan and Tony Slug as side project to their main bands.
History
The Hydromatics was formed
Nick Royale from
The Hellacopters
The Hellacopters are a Swedish garage rock band that was formed in 1994 by Nicke Andersson (vocals and guitar), Andreas Tyrone "Dregen" Svensson (guitar), Kenny Håkansson (bass) and Robert Eriksson (drums). Andersson (sometimes known as Nick ...
and Tony Slug from Amsterdam punk band The Nitwitz planned to record a series of Sonic's Rendezvous Band coversongs, but the project was long on hold due to the hectic touring schedules of The Hellacopters. However Tony Slug was able to get a hold of Sonic's Rendezvous Band founder Scott Morgan and during the Hellacopters second visit to Detroit Morgan happily accepted the offer to record with Tony and Nick. In 1999 Scott and Nick flew to Amsterdam and met up with Tony and his bandmate Theo Brouwer and The Hydromatics were born.
The band rehearsed for six days, played three shows in Amsterdam and wrote some new material for the band's debut album "Parts Unknown." After a six-week tour through Europe, which resulted in the six-track live CD "Fluid Drive," Nick decided to leave the band due to his commitments to The Hellacopters and was replaced by Andy Frost. In 2001 the band released their second album, "Powerglide," containing seven Sonic's Rendezvous Band covers and seven new tracks. Soon after, bassist Theo left and moved to Spain and Laurent Ciron was called in as his replacement. After the tour the band took an extended hiatus while the members concentrated on various other bands. Scott and Nicke teamed up once again and formed the soul band
The Solution. After the hiatus the band returned with Kent Steedman (formerly of Australian band
The Celibate Rifles
The Celibate Rifles were an Australian punk rock band which formed in 1979 with a line-up that included mainstays Dave Morris on rhythm guitar and Kent Steedman on lead guitar, within a year they were joined by Damien Lovelock on lead vocals. T ...
) on guitar and Ries Doms on drums.
Line up
Current members
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Scott Morgan - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica
*Tony Slug - guitar
*Ries Doms - drums
*Theo Brouwer - bass guitar
*Kent Steedman - guitar
Former members
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Nicke Andersson
Nicke Andersson (born 1 August 1972), also known as Nick Royale, is a Swedish musician best known for his work as the singer and guitarist for the rock band The Hellacopters and drummer for the death metal band Entombed. He was also briefly th ...
- drums, percussion, backing vocals
*Laurent Ciron - bass guitar
*Andy Frost - drums
Discography
*Dangerous / Heaven 45 (RocketDog, Holland, lim. 1000 copies)
*Parts Unknown LP/CD (White Jazz, Sweden, 1999)
*Powerglide CD (Freakshow, Italy, 2001)
*Powerglide LP (Cargo, Germany)
*R.I.P. rnr on Ox fanzine compilation (Germany)
*Soulbone on Live at The Subsonic, Vol. 1 (Speed, France)
*R.I.P. rnr and "Do It Again" on Death Rattle and Roll (Wondertaker, USA)
*Live 10 (Pitshar
France, lim. 500 copies)
*The Earth Is Shaking (Suburban, NL, 2007)
External links
The Hydromatics MySpacePitshark Records, released the LIVE 10"
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Musical groups from Detroit
Dutch punk rock groups
Swedish punk rock groups
Punk rock groups from Michigan
Musical groups established in 1999