Label: Thors Hammer (Germany), THCD 003
Style: Hard Rock, Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Country: Aalst, East Flanders, Belgium
Time: 61:23
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 359 Mb
Irish Coffee’s singer-guitarplayer William Souffreau (b.1946.4.14) made his first steps for musical fame back in 1960 in a band he formed with some school friends: The Blue Jets. They played cover-songs of early rock & roll-classics and Elvis Presley songs. In 1963 or thereabouts he joined another Aalst outfit who called themselves The Mings.
This adventure lasted another three years as it was in 1966 when he was asked to join The Four Rockets as a second singer. This band was quite popular in the dance hall-circuit and thanks to a manager they played a lot of shows (even in France) while on some evenings they backed “Pop” (Lou Deprijck) . On their setlist were mainly rock & roll classics, The Shadows, The Beatles and The Stones with only very few self-written songs. In 1967 The Four Rockets managed to release a single (Mademoiselle / The Place Where She Lives) on the “Micro” label, while a second one was recorded but never saw the light of day, as the original tapes seemed to got lost.
Hugo Verhoye (b.1947.2.5.) came from a musical family and started playing balls & pubs in 1960 and by the time he was 15 he already had a band called The Rocking Stars. His next drumseat was with the Paul Lynde Quintet where he met Paul Lambert (b.1948.8.20 ~ d 1974.11.2) who was the organ player and via Josh Mondy he joined around 1966 the backing band for singer Rocco Granata called the Cardinal Show Quintet. This quintet was Hugo on drums, Paul on organ, William on guitar, Willy De Bisschop (b. 1948.1.20.) on bass and Rudy Van Impe on sax. Together they played a lot of shows for about three years till one day in 1969, after a show in Brugge Hugo got fired.
Paul and William decided to quit also and start a new band with singer Dirk Diericks and guitar player Romain De Smet (ex The Mings).
They chose to name themselves Voodoo after analogy from The Voodoos (their only vinyl release was a 7” back in 1965), another Aalst-based band with singer Dirk and guitar player Romain, who played cover-songs in the dance halls since the early sixties.
(full version: belgianmetalhistory.be/irish-coffee/)
01. Can't Take It (04:07)
02. The Beginning Of The End (06:20)
03. When Winter Comes (04:53)
04. The Show (Part I) (02:54)
05. The Show (Part II) (03:02)
06. Hear Me (04:02)
07. A Day Like Today (06:54)
08. I'm Lost (04:33)
09. Masterpiece (bonus track) (03:06)
10. Carry On (bonus track) (03:13)
11. Child (bonus track) (03:44)
12. Down Down Down (bonus track) (02:40)
13. I'm Alive (bonus track) (04:13)
14. Witchy Lady (bonus track) (02:57)
15. I'm Hers (bonus track) (04:36)
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