I caught up with excitable frontman Hugh McLachlan in the lead up to the The Franklin Fest 2016.  The Reverse Cowgirls will be playing at the Voodoo Rooms on Thursday 23rd June supporting Kid Congo And The Pink Monkey Birds along with Rosco (aka Sterling Roswell).

Debbie: So what's happening in Reverse Cowgirl land just now?

We have had a reasonably busy time of late what with supporting The Blind Shake, Dan Sartain and the legendary James Leg (Black Diamond Heavies) in Weegieland, and our various other side projects.

Not always being the bridesmaids, we have a couple of shows down Engerland way booked in for 9/10th September so far, which we are thoroughly ganting for also.

Not content to rest on our gilded laurels on self-releasing our two albums on Northern Cowboy Recordings. 'Hokum' and follow-up 'Outskirts' we are recording our first vinyl E.P. 'Lost Tribes' next month which has made us tres excited and beside ourselves in anticipppppation!

Debbie: How do you feel the RC slot into the whole Franklin vibe? You played at the Franklin Rock 'N' Roll Club in 2015, and of course at last years Franklin Fest afternoon show at The Parlour...

Like all good country garage bands we want to make a cool racket and have fun. The Franklin Fest knows this and caters to our particular sonic nuances and always have Angus at hand, on sound, to make this a thing. We have been involved with Calvin and Colin throughout the years in various musical outpourings and not managed to piss each other off much, which is a good sign, if not, a blossoming relationship, in our eyes.

Debbie: Are you excited about playing with a legend like Kid Congo? (previously of The Cramps / The Gun Club / The Bad Seeds / Knoxville Girls)

We are of course looking forward to playing alongside our hero Kid Congo, which we all dreamed about as small children. Also, can't wait to see Les Grys Grys again. a sight and sound to behold. The whole thing should be fab! If Edinburgh is good to us we'll be good to them, it's only fair. The Reverse Cowgirls are champing at the bit! 

Please note that this night requires a separate ticket to the Franklin Fest Weekend ticket (which is for Friday night and Saturday afternoon and night) details about tickets can be found here, and as their last show in the 'burgh sold out, it's advisable to buy now: https://www.facebook.com/events/790167527755692/ 

This is the fabulous debut 45 from Harry Violet & The Sharks, a dark sax-driven rock & roll 4-piece from London. Most impressively recorded, produced, and pressed by the band themselves. They are "intent on mixing dive-bar jive and 12-bar rhythms with nightmarish grooves".

Citing their influences as The Cramps, The Lounge Lizards, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Tom Waits and "the eccentricities of Joe Meek productions" and "inspired by the wild and wacky adventures of Frank Buck and the dystopian youth madness of A Clockwork Orange". Enough already, we get the picture. You are preaching to the converted.

'Jungle Cavalcade' is a low down dirty hip shakin’ stroller. I can picture all of the curvaceous leopard-print clad Betty Page-a-likes nonchalantly flipping their ponytails and giving the hot rockabilly dude the eye; a lucky strike hanging seductively from his mouth. Shake and shiver people, shake and shiver …    

Flipside 'Dance At The Korova', is a tale of working hard and letting loose. Madly jiving it’s way across the dancefloor. I’ll have a moloko plus with that please.

Two original numbers, and racking up less than five minutes in total - oh how you tease!! A great first single. Hope to catch the boys live soon.

Jungle Cavalcade is available now from Dirty Water Records.