01	Purple Haze						04:10
	02	Voodoo Chile						07:20
	03	Fire						03:42
	04	Little Wing						03:05
	05	Spanish Castle Magic						04:35
	06	Foxy Lady						03:36
	07	Stone Free						03:51
	08	The Wind Cries Mary						03:35
	09	All Along The Watchtower						04:12
	10	Hey Joe						04:31
	11	Star Spangled Banner						03:03

www.thehamsters.co.uk

Our 16th Year - 3250 Concerts
The Hamsters
are...
Snail's Pace Slim - Guitar, lead vocals.
Otis Elevator - Drums, background vocals.
Zsa Zsa Poltergeist - Bass, background vocals


The Hamsters - The Bullsh*t Kit

Our Sixteenth Anniversary Year - 3,000+ Concerts

They're fabulous: one of Britain's very best live bands; - Bob Harris, Radio 2

We've been voted the uk's best blues-rock band by the readers of Blueprint magazine.

We contributed a track for inclusion in the BBC Radio 2 series Bright Lights, Big City. It documents the story of British Rhythm and Blues from the fifties to the modern day. It's presented by former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, and was broadcast in the Autumn of 2001.

We recently conducted an interview for the Sunday Express, and were also the week's featured concert in The Times 'Play' section, December 2002.

A member of Natalie Imbruglia's band was spotted wearing one of our t-shirts on a recent appearance on Graham Norton's show on Channel 4.

We appeared on the main stage at the Guildford Festival for the eighth time in July. Headlining were The Pretenders, Jools Holland and Fun Lovin' Criminals.

Bob Harris has been kind enough to carry on supporting us by playing tracks from the new album on his Saturday night show on Radio 2.

Latest 75 minute live album, They Live By Night, was released in 2002 via Pinnacle. It features 15 tracks, including brand new material.

Work has begun on a new studio album, for release later this year.


From the hinterlands of the Thames River Delta come...

The Hamsters

Now in their 16th year and soon to perform their 3250th concert, and with a
national mailing list exceeding 20,000. The Hamsters are established as the U.K.'s premier Blues-Rock attraction. This has been achieved purely by hard work, with the band handling all their own affairs, thereby disproving the popular misconception that it can't be done without major-label muscle.

The Hamsters have been voted one of the U.K.'s best unsigned bands by 'Kerrang' magazine... (we already have a record deal, but it's a nice compliment innit?). Even BBC's Top Gear magazine recognises the band as U.K.'s hardest working, and has featured them in an article on in-car entertainment, The Hamsters being the ideal people to ask as they are always travelling somewhere....

Widely regarded as leading interpreters of Jimi Hendrix's, and now ZZ Top's songs, they're equally comfortable playing Blues or tearing into a hard rocking original.

Originally forming for their own amusement and taking their name from the Sex Pistols (who once used it as a pseudonym to outwit hostile councils), The Hamsters enjoy the irony of being an aggressive band with a cuddly name - and although serious about what they do, they don't take themselves too seriously.

Band members have performed with artists such as Eric Clapton, Alison Moyet, Doctor Feelgood, Walter Trout, Art of Noise, Robin Trower and the late great veteran of British Blues, Alexis Korner.

World Champion Formula 1 driver Damon Hill is a fan, and was spotted wearing a Hamsters tee shirt at the Hungarian Grand Prix!

Slim has been voted one of the top 100 guitarists of all time in a radio poll on LBC.

Our version of Hendrix's Voodoo Chile has been used in an edition of BBC TV's Top Gear.

Slim is featured in a book called "17 Watts? The First 20 Years Of British Rock Guitar", talking about his early musical experiences alongside Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, George Harrison and David Gilmour.

The band's album The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts was rated Album Of The Month in Germany's leading musicians' magazine, Guitar and Bass.

Former bassist Dave Bronze appears on Eric Clapton's From The Cradle album, and has performed as a member of Eric's band at the Albert Hall concerts several years running.

Having visited the USA in '91, they're now working a lot in mainland Europe, and in November '92 they performed at three sell-out Jimi Hendrix festivals in Holland, including the most celebrated gig in Europe - The Paradiso, Amsterdam. Their version of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower is included on an album of Dylan cover versions, featuring such artists as Bryan Ferry, Joe Cocker, The Byrds and many others, released throughout Europe by Polygram in '93

Slim was interviewed for the Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison editions of Mojo Working, a Channel 4 (UK) TV series broadcast through summer '92, documenting the most influential figures in popular music.

Slim also writes for Guitarist magazine when he has time, and was featured talking about his equipment (!) in the September '94 issue of Guitar Techniques magazine. he has also been included in the Guitarist Magazine Book of Guitar Players. Guitar Techniques has asked Slim to contribute recorded lessons on how to play the Blues, which they include on the cover CD accompanying every issue. They have been interviewed and filmed live by MTV Europe, as well as being featured in session (some of these tracks are included on the Pet Sounds CD) and interview on Radio One for Bob Harris and Johnny Walker, Radio Two for Paul Jones, for GLR in London, and B.F.B.S. in mainland Europe and Dutch national radio.


Early in '95, the band released Route 666 which entered the NME chart at number 7. The Observer newspaper has even pinched the idea from the CD booklet for the cover of a colour supplement! Photographs for the album were taken by the
celebrated snapper, Gered Mankowitz, who is especially known for his seminal photographs of Hendrix and the Stones, among many other Rock icons.


The Hamsters are: Slim - Guitar, Singer / Rev. Otis - Drums, Sings a bit / Zsa Zsa - Bass, Sings a bit

Recordings:

Electric Hamsterland
Hendrix/Studio
'90
CD


Burnin' Vermin
Live
'91
Video


Hamster Jam
Live
'91
CD


The Hamsters
Studio
'93
CD


Route 666
Studio
'95
CD


The Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts
Live
'96
2 CD


Band of Gerbils
Live
'96
Video


Verminator! (The Z.Z. Top Tour)
Live
'97
Video


Pet Sounds - 10 Years Of Rodent Rock
Compilation
'98
2 CD


Rodents Rock The Reich!
Live German TV
'98
Video


Condensed Hamsters
Live Compilation
'00
CD


They Live By Night
Live
'02
CD