Discography
The Vinyl Junkies are an English four piece alternative rock band consisting of David Foster, Alex Gatt, Matthew Cowling and Jamie Thomas. After three years of creative transition, the final line-up was introduced onto the scene in early 2011.
With 5 years of written material behind them, the band hit their local circuit filling pubs and clubs with their contemporary rock n roll music. The bands are now trying to branch out to a wide audience of rock n roll lovers with their heavy riffs, vocal harmonies and catchy chorus’. They continue to expand and hold big aspirations for the future.
Here are some quotes over the last year from listeners, promoters and local fans about the Vinyl Junkies:
Vinyl Junkies. Four under twenties, or thereabouts, playing to an audience of thereabouts. And here were original songs which sounded like they came from the same stable as the classics, which didn't sound like a mere pastiche of the classics, which stood up well alongside the classics, and which held their own. With an audience word perfect on some of them too.
Dave Foster is an amazing blues guitarist for his age. As a 60 something said to me once at a Coalhouse Walker gig in St Neots, "Where did a 19 year old learn to play the blues like that?" I have heard him play in two other bands, including his own blues trio. But playing in the Vinyl Junkies, together with Alex Gatt, Jamie Thomas and Matt Cowling - here is energetic, youthful, mature rock and roll rooted in the great blues-rock tradition and yet totally for the moment. Aggression, humour, musical competence, foot-tap-ability. I felt as if I had parachuted into an early Who gig.
I can say no more. The most hopeful band I have heard in Hertfordshire. And I wouldn't mind hearing them in Brighton.
Andrew King (Music Photographer)
This time round, we have The Vinyl Junkies. Four young chaps in their early 20's with talent beyond their years. If Paul Weller started a band with Kings of Leon..., with the influence of all the great bands from the 60s and 70s, you wouldn't be far off The Vinyl Junkies' sound.
