Cheap beer. Pompadours. Skinny ties.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's the magnificent Earls of Suave. 50's-style garage/lounge-rock at it's best. (Yes, I believe I just named a new genre...albeit, not very gracefully.)

The Earls of Suave infuse the silky lounge ballads of 1950's rock'n'roll with the drunken, sinful ethos of punk rawk. What you get is the punk version of a Vegas lounge act, or something close to it. One reviewer describes the band as having found "a spot where the Sun Studio sound crashed right into one of Sinatra's most pissed-off nights." Yes, it cooks. Just you wait.

These two tracks are off the "In My Dreams" 7" single from 1994 on Vinyl Japan.

1. "In My Dreams" - Earls of Suave

2. "Somebody Buy Me a Drink" - Earls of Suave

This band is long over, but they've got a ton of satellite projects. If you like what you hear, you should also check out Gallon Drunk, The Flaming Stars and The Stingrays.  When singer and producer Max Decharne went on to form the group The Flaming Stars, he'd say in an interview of his old band:

"But we started this band called the ‘Earls Of Suave’ just in order to have fun and play songs that we liked... and that was just cover versions, and us just getting drunk and getting up and playing in a pub in London in front of our mates, and that was all it was supposed to be. And a couple of years after when we were no longer doing that, I’d been writing some stuff and Paul (also ex of Gallon Drunk) and most of the people in ‘The Earls Of Suave’ wound up getting involved in it, just in order to do original material... So that’s where the band came from. It was very much that we knew each other and then started this band rather than the other way around...”

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