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SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: THE COCKTAILS – YIPPEE F’IN HURRAY
THE COCKTAILS
YIPPEE F’IN HURRAY
INDEPENDENT
Hot off of reaching the semi-finals of 97.7 HTZ FM’s annual Rocksearch competition, Niagara, Ontario’s The Cocktails are one of the provinces coolest punk outfits. Almost an exact year to the date of the release of their explosive debut album, Viva La Juicy, the band has returned with their follow-up record, Yippee F’in Hurray, an explosive full-length, ten track album that sees the power-trio dig equally as deep into their ‘90s punk and alternative roots...... Read more on Spill Magazine
Niagara hard rockers The Cocktails are leaner and meaner
The way Anthony Botting sees it, his band The Cocktails have gotten bigger by going smaller.
Last year, Botting and four friends brought their collective experience to their raucous new band, making it to the finals of HTZ-FM’s Rocksearch in the process. The band’s debut album, “Viva La Juicy,” was a concise, old school throwback to punky ’90s rock.
For the sequel just a year later, Botting has lost nearly half of his band. But if anything, he said The Cocktails are even tighter as a trio. Botting and Matt Keighan remain as primary songwriters, joined by veteran Niagara bassist Rod Standish.......read on at Niagara Falls Review
