Bela and the Lugosis – International Radio Star – EP Review

Tune your analogue radio dial to the wham bam glam of the 1970s and the dark sweeping goth of the 1980s and ready yourself for a gloriously heady extravaganza in the form of the goth/glam fusion from everyone’s favourite purveyors of Bowiehaus, Bela and the Lugosis. If you’re already familiar with the band, the International Radio Star EP is going to be a welcome addition to your burgeoning collection of the bands effervescently boisterous and hugely entertaining goth songs with more than a smattering of glam sugarcoating. 

That old familiar squeal & fizz of radio static as you tuned the vintage dials on your old radio fills the airwaves as the EP’s title track kicks in, and it feels like it’s the band’s Radio Ga Ga moment.… Read the rest

Bela & the Lugosis – Trash in Dayglow – EP Review

Bela Lugosi might be dead, the bats may have left the bell tower and the victims bled. But the red velvet doesn’t line the box, by the sound of Bela & the Lugosis, they’d be more likely to be turn it into a gloriously over the top stage shirt, to go with the “plastic boots and spandex flares” of the EPs title track.

The Trash in Dayglow 5 Track EP announces itself in darkly majestic style, with the thunderous instrumental AS Erotica laying the groundwork for the clamorous electrically charged wham bam thank you ma’am glam stomp of the song from which the EP takes its name.… Read the rest