Squeeler
Jennifer Broadhurst (Hit, 1979)
Squeeler were a hard-rockin' moustached Tetleys-swillin' round-the-clubs noise in Yorkshire, where men were men-with-whippets, when they finally succumbed to the lure-of-the-newer and added a punk rock twist to their regular fare of things like "Framed", the old Leiber/Stoller song, no doubt via the version proferred by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, which is one of the two songs on the other side of this 4-tracker EP.
It's not so much a game of two halves, this EP (their only release), more a game of four quarters: "Jennifer Broadhurst" kicks things off in punky kinda way, "Menace" reverts to mid-70s type, then on the other side it's the Jilted-John-separated-at-birth punky powerpop'isms of "I Just Want To Be Me" followed up by the aforementioned "Framed". If they'd ever got around to making an LP it'd probably have been called "Hedging Our Bets".
There was no p/s for this one, and it spent many years falling through the collector-cracks before being discovered and LDK gold-star'd. Any good?
