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About That Petrol Emotion
Hometown
Derry, Northern Ireland
Formed
1985
Genre
Rock
Formed when the O’Neill brothers, Sean and Damian, parted from the fragmenting Undertones in 1983, That Petrol Emotion signalled a new direction for the pair, with frothing guitar, a fuller sound, and a more pronounced political agenda.
Their pop-based debut and its follow-up, BABBLE, were dominated by frantic guitar and U.S.-born frontman Steve Mack’s whole-hearted delivery. They signed to Virgin and expanded their mind with END OF THE MILLENNIUM PSYCHOSIS BLUES, which included the bone-shattering disco of "Groove Check," and the Sonic Youth-inspired "Under The Sky." They reached a frenetic peak on CHEMICRAZY, both chaotic and well-crafted, featuring the riffy-melodic modern rock hit "Hey Venus," but the record was a commercial failure and Virgin dropped the band and by 1994 they were no more.
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