![]() ![]() Initially he was thinking of calling his project Skyscraper, but soon realised that another band was using that name, so decided to appropriate the title of 1973 Can single (another band he loved) as the name of his new venture: Moonshake was born. His increasing enthusiasm for sampling had developed by this point and he wanted to use this new project as a vehicle for a fresh approach to songwriting instead of simply relying on guitars. Post-split, Callahan forged ahead and started anew with a blank canvas. It was great that the Wolfhounds ended their first incarnation with such defiant style, but sadly the listeners and record sales told a different story. Both could easily vie with the likes of Sonic Youth in terms of how guitars could be brandished like artillery: the sheer mountainous barrage of gleeful six-string abuse on both records was astonishing and still thrilling when heard today. ![]() It was to the record buying public’s eternal shame that they never even noticed the band’s last two releases: 1988’s Blown Away and 1990’s Attitude. The Wolfhounds then found themselves caught up in that turn-of-the-decade no-man’s land where they felt as if they had achieved all they could within their means but very few punters were paying attention as they were all too busy necking E’s and doing the loved up rave vibes. They released their earliest singles on the Pink label, and were wrongly lumped in with many of the ‘anorak’ jangle poppers and other quirky bands that were featured on the C86 multi-artist indie compilation created by the NME, but they soon escaped such restrictive confines and became progressively more vital and aggressive in sound over the space of four albums until their rather ignominious demise as the 1990s dawned. ![]() Before Moonshake were formed in 1991, its founder member Dave Callahan was the singer and guitarist with spiky and clamorously edgy guitar renegades the Wolfhounds – prominent names in the burgeoning mid-1980’s independent scene spearheaded by the growth of fanzine culture and popularity on the John Peel show. ![]()
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