Listen to ‘Ghosts of Holloway’ Remix At Out Magazine
Revered as Newcastle’s very own one-man electronic dance party, Razmataz Lorry Excitement, returned at the end of 2012 with a brand new 9 track mini-album ‘If It Takes Me All Night Long’ after a 2 year hiatus touring as guitar/synth player with acclaimed Sunderland Mercury Prize shortlisted act Field Music. Here he remixes Lone Wolf’s “Ghosts of Holloway” to blistering (of on-the-souls-of-your-feet-from-dancing kind) new levels.
Lone Wolf recalls how the unlikely pair met: “When I was 16 I moved from London to Whitby on the East Coast where I had the pleasure of meeting one of my best pals to this day, Kev Dosdale. As well as being the go to guy for guitar duty in Sunderland’s finest, Field Music, he also makes awesome dance music under the moniker of ‘Razmataz Lorry Excitement’. It occurred to me that in the 15 years I have known Kev, we have never actually collaborated on anything, and so seeing as he has just released his new mini album ‘If it Takes Me All Night Long’, and I’d just released ‘The Lovers’ we felt that there was no time like the present. “He has managed to bring Ghosts of Holloway from the late 80s to the early 90s with his fist pumping remix. I love it.”
Over the last 4 years Razmataz Lorry Excitement has received national radio airplay from such Radio 1 Djs as: Huw Stephens, Zane Lowe & Annie Mac along with 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq, Nemone & Tom Robinson and XFM’s John Kennedy. Video plays have also come from MTV2 and Ministry Of Sound TV. Razmataz Lorry Excitement has been mesmerizing gig-goers up and down the country with his electronic one man band performances and energetic live shows over the last 4 years, including opening up for the likes of The Klaxons, Crystal Castles, Shy Child and Errors. The Guardian newspaper summed it up best, with this review from his performance at the Reading & Leeds festival: “In a year short on surprises, the weekend’s most unlikely triumph belongs to a Geordie on the unsigned stage calling himself Razmataz Lorry Excitement. His bonkers dance beats and Prince falsetto pull a large crowd in a contest otherwise carried by Las Vegas Killers and Glasvegas.”