The Ace's Riot Of Sound Album Review On STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING Blog

The Ace's album Riot Of Sound has been given a big thumbs up at the Strange Things Are
Happening Blog for THEE PSYCHEDELICATESSEN collective! 

Here is the review

'What can you say about Leeds based Beat/Garage/Bubblegum/Psyche/Power PoppersThe Ace?.........well they are…..erm…..pretty ace!!!!Their new album Riot Of Sound is a teenage rampage of sugar shaking poptastic mayhem straight outta the garage with hooks as sharp as a needle. Taking influences from The Searchers to The Standells to The Stairs, The Ace take the fizzy sounds of 60's Beat and Garage Rock, add a touch of Bubblegum, a dash of Soul and a large helping of  manic pop thrill  making them a real toe tapping, hip swinging, ass shaking, upbeat affair.

Riot Of Sound is an amphetamine headrush of the best up tempo, seriously danceable tracks from the mid-sixties British Mod/Freakbeat era with also a tip of the hat to the early eighties with a Pop Art collision of the Mod revival/Neo Psych scenes. With added fizzing Farfisa to fill out a model bass, drums, guitar line-up, The Ace blow the roof offa the joint with 12 tracks of top tunes and rave ups as tight as you like. Among the standout tracks are the very groovy ‘I Dream Love’ and ‘Misunderstood’, the Modish ‘Into The Action’ and ‘Take My Love’ which is packed full of Nuggety goodness. This record is an excellent distillation of the era in British music just before the Mods started dropping acid………think early Kinks, Beatles, The Action, The Who, The Attack, The Poets, Yardbirds and you are going to in the right place and at the right time for the inspiration/influences you can hear on Riot Of Sound. Dig The Ace’s happening 60s scene kids.

Released as a “name your price” digital download through the very cool Swedish Power Pop/ Mod/Surf/ Punk/ New Wave/Northern Soul internet radio show/boutique label Ice Cream Man Power Pop And More Records and available from their Bandcamp site at https://icecreammanrecords.bandcamp.com/. There also may be a CD release in the pipeline so keep a look out for that.'

Check out the review and Strange Things Are Happening Blog here at

http://theepsychedelicatessen.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/the-waves-hypnotized-ep-dl-ace-riot-of.html

The Ace's Riot Of Sound Available To Download Now!

The digital version of The Ace's new album, Riot Of Sound, is now available at Ice Cream Man Records bandcamp site. It is pay what you want, so get downloading! A massive thank you to Wayne Lundqvist Ford for helping out The Ace, with the digital release of the album, we're off and running! Hopefully we'll have the CD version of the album available soon. Wayne lives in Sweden, so the release is in Swedish coin, so some conversion maybe necessary, if you're gonna donate for the album!

http://icecreammanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-ace-riot-of-sound

The Ace Riot Of Sound Album Soon!

The Ace's New CD Single, Egil's Head-Ransom / I'm Leavin' You Available Now

The Ace's New CD Single, Egil's Head-Ransom / I'm Leavin' You is available now to buy. It will cost £2 at a gig, or through paypal for £3 for UK. Email us for the details. 

Alas, for International sales, the cost will have to be £6, due to the cost of postage, which is a bit ridiculous for a CD single. We're hoping to have bandcamp site up soon, so the single will be available digitally for £2, which should help out our international friends.

Cheers

Jonny Magus

Live Review Of The Ace @ The Cavern Club, Liverpool, IPO May 2014

Here's a review of The Ace's recent live performance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, for IPO 2014. The review is featured on the great gig blog, Minty And The Beeb Go Gigging.

http://mintyandthebeeb.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/international-pop-overthrow-tuesday-day.html

Across to the Club for the first time this year and in time to see a band we really like from Yorkshire on the Front Stage. The Ace are regulars at the IPO and we have also seen them play in Camden’s Dublin Castle. With an authentic garage/mod beat they really sound great and put the Power into Powerpop, drawing on The Dave Clark Five / The Knack beat. They really fired through their set, including old favourites such as “Yeah Yeah” and introducing new songs from an EP just out, with “Egil’s Head-Ransom” and “I’m Leaving You”. The drummer Daz, generates so much energy with his mad drumming, he could power a small town on his own! A fantastic set and thoroughly recommended.  Check them out on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ace/110755562312226?ref=ts&fref=ts

The Ace live @ The Cavern, Liverpool, May 2014.
Photo is by Minty or The Beeb!

The Ace's New CD Single, Egil's Head-Ransom / I'm Leavin' You available in May

The Ace's New CD Single, Egil's Head-Ransom / I'm Leavin' You will be available in May. The Ace will be playing this years IPO, at The Cavern in Liverpool, on Tuesday 13th May. Our new single will be available at the gig, then by mail order afterwards.

The Ace Live MOTM Huddersfield Irish Centre Sunday 23rd March 2014 Onstage 3.30pm

The Ace will be playing the March Of The Mods event for the Teenage Cancer Trust this forthcoming Sunday, 23rd March 2014. The event takes place at Huddersfield Irish Centre and should be a great shindig. We're onstage in the afternoon at 3.30pm. The event is £10, with 15 bands and loads of DJs in attendance. Proceedings start at 12 noon until after midnight. First band is onstage at 12.30pm, gonna be a blast! All proceeds go to The Teenage Cancer Trust.