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"Oh to be a teenage boy, let loose in downtown LA with a record deal. Like a hardcore West Coast Virgins, Billy Boy on Poison pick up where The Vines left off, were Craig Nicholls to have hung the fuck out with Black Lips. With an average age of 17 and a healthy dose of angst and anger, 'Standing Still' is fuelled by testosterone and the joy of beating the shit out of the instruments that some dude from a record label told you not to destroy. It's ballsy and agressive, with killer lyrics and more attitude than a stroppy schoolgirl with PMT."
-- Alice Wagstaff, Artrocker Magazine

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"A creature who can only perform good or evil is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice, but it is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil" Anthony Burgess on A Clockwork Orange

 

"Wound up by God or the Devil" - now there's a term that you would easily apply to Billy Boy on Poison's frantic, teen, rock superstar in the making, young Davis Leduke. Born and most definitely bred in LA, Davis and his fellow Droogs, Ryan, Greg and cousin Jessi make up the glitter-bombed, glam-soaked, Rockasaurus Rex that is Billy Boy on Poison.

At an average age of just 17 BBoP, who took their name from Burgess' seminal novel "A Clockwork Orange", have spent their formative years plying their trade up and down the Sunset Strip. While their classmates dodge groundings to come and check out the band, this LA four piece have made musicology their major. The raw power of the rabble rousing ten tracks that appear on their forthcoming debut album 'Drama Junkie Queen' is their song sheet. The dedicated ground work mean the band are, despite their tender years, a potent live brew.

'Standing Still' is the debut single to be taken from the album and has to be the work fob the devil. A whirling tornado of screeching vocals, guitar cyclone, thundering drums and an earthquake off-the-richter-scale bass. A satanic verse with a chorus of fallen angels.

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"If you love over-the-top, '70's-inspired glitter rock served with healthy dollops of attitude, you may want to check out Billy Boy On Poison. I'm kind of shocked that this band has not gotten more attention. They may be the most exciting band I've heard since The Vines' debut. This is crunchy, bombastic rock, but this group seems fully committed to their sound in a way that is really refreshing. Maybe it is most amazing because they are so young (ranging from 16 - 18), but I have a feeling that this band is going to make some real noise."
-- Ted O'Neill, Groupee.com

"Given some of the lyrics on this Los Angeles band's premiere EP, it's probable that, unlike another teenage band, the Jonas Brothers, you won't find members of Billy Boy on Poison sporting purity rings. Taking its name from "A Clockwork Orange," BBP is fronted by Davis Leduke, with energetic support from guitarists Ryan Wallengren and Greg West plus drummer Jessi Calcaterra, who is, at 19, the oldest of the quintet whose EP is just out on the Kiefer Sutherland/Jude Cole label Ironworks. The band's sound is richly updated glam rock with post-punk, hook-filled musicality. If there's a weakness in the five cuts on the EP, it's a certain sameness. In fact, when "Dirty Bomb" begins, you'll think it's just a continuation of "On My Way." But no matter. The kids are better than all right. They've got chops, talent and legit promise."
-- David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle

Davis Leduke is a teenage runaway marionette in the spiritual mold of Bowie or Iggy. Like the best of them, he believes he's real and so do we. His manic joy is truly infectious to all. He's flanked once again by Ryan and Greg, who reliably hammer out relentless riffs as if they could go all night. Jessi, the drummer and only girl in the band (though, like her cousin Leduke, appears to flirt with the idea of gender bending) commandingly drives each song from the back riser.

Billy Boy on Poison produces some edgy pop nuggets dripping with British sounding hooks and delivers each one with the same jubilant New York Dolls attitude that has eluded too many bands until recently. (Best exemplified here in the platform heeled strut of "Saturday's Child.") But these guys are too young to show any signs of excess baggage (even though on this night they cheekily introduce a new song they call "Falling in Love with A Higher Power and Other Twelve Step Programs"). They're not angry but they handily get inside the angst and theatrics of "Angry Young Man" (as in "every nice young girl needs one . . .") This band just seriously plays rock n' roll because it's fun. (And they'd probably have a ball accompanying the party that destroys your house when your parents have left town for the weekend.)

-- Sugarbuzz Magazine