Sunday, 29 January 2012

Truffle Rock Band

TRUFFLE were a heavy rock band from Portsmouth, England that gigged all over the UK in the 80's and early 90's. They released a single “Round tower/If you really want” in 1981,  a cassette single “633 Squadron/Do you like heavy metal” in 1984 and the cassette album “The bacon slicer strikes again” in 1985.

The same band also formed a covers band which ran alongside TRUFFLE in 1986 called the (Monday) MAFIA. Both bands gigged for several years but gradually the boys found that more & more  people in pubs wanted to hear cover numbers & so the TRUFFLE gigs slowly fell off & the MAFIA ones increased.

The MAFIA are still gigging (click link on the left for the MAFIA website) and in April 2011 at their 25th anniversary gig at the Heroes,  Waterlooville in April 2011 TRUFFLE performed 3 songs live, the first time they had done so in nearly 20 years.

Also in 2011 a German record company HIGH ROLLER RECORDS remastered and released  most of the material TRUFFLE had recorded  on 3 vinyl albums “If you really want”, “1st Attempt” & “The bacon slicer strikes again”  ...fantastic for the boys after nearly 30 years!  
You can listen to "Running out of time" from “The bacon slicer strikes again” album by clicking here  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCIJf51HiCs&list=FLISCX_b_M5VuO2MEvgcwQHQ&index=2&feature=plpp_video


To purchase the vinyl albums click on the HR Records link to to the left of your screen.