Spanking Charlene

New York City, NY

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Travels up to 200 miles

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'Chicks & Broads' show from Underground Garage

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Rev It Up

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You Suck

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Overview

Spanking Charlene delivers a high-energy blend of rock-soul-punk that captivates listeners with driving rhythms, great guitar hooks and amazing vocals. The songs reflect life in New York City: the endless nightlife, the search for sex and love, disappointments, frustrations, happiness, anger & fun. They won Sirius Radio’s Underground Garage ‘Best Unsigned Band in America’ contest and recorded with Little Steve Van Zandt for his Wicked Cool record label. Spanking Charlene's song "Boyfriend" will be featured in the upcoming HBO series "The Deuce" which stars James Franco and Maggie Gylenhall


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Booking information

Price range: Contact for rates

Languages: English

Gig length: 30 - 180 minutes

What to expect

High energy show with a variety of styles and tempos. Mostly original tunes but, depending on set length, also a number of familiar covers.

About

Formed in NYC in 2005, Spanking Charlene has performed at almost every large and small venue in the city, and has played at venues up and down the East Coast and in Las Vegas. They were the winners of the Sirius radio Underground Garage 'Best Unsigned Band in America' contest and, as a result, recorded with Little Steven Van Zandt (Springsteen, Sopranos) and are on his Wicked Cool record label. Driven by the powerhouse vocals of lead singer Charlene McPherson, the group plays hard driving rock mixed with soul, punk, garage and roots. Their most recent and forthcoming albums were produced by Eric 'Roscoe' Ambel, former Blackhearts ("I Love Rock and Roll") guitarist, who also plays in the band. Spanking Charlene shows are a hard driving, powerful, sultry, sweaty, roller coaster of fun.

Additional booking notes

Standard band setup: drums center rear, bass amp & 1 guitar amp stage left, 1 guitar amp stage right, 3 mics up front.

Services offered

Set list

Find Me Out
I Don't Wanna Go There
Rev It Upp
You Ain't Gettin' None Tonight
Boyfriend
The Other Girl
Can't Let You Go
Liar
Whiplash
Dismissed With A Kiss
(Encore)
Highway to Hell
Runaround Sue

Influences and inspiration

Ramones, Aretha, AC/DC, Patsy Cline, X, Replacements, Neil Young

Setup requirements

Standard setup for 2 guitars, bass, drums & lead singer. We can provide all gear except for mics & PA if necessary.

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