STOKE recorded their self-titled debut album in 2000, and released it in early 2001. Lauded by 'Unrestrained' magazine as 'skilled musicians who can rock out like there's no tomorrow,' the three-piece outfit logged numerous live shows.
In 2007 a second album, 'Willingdon Black,' was release. It further defines the sound that STOKE likes to call blacknblues.
The name 'STOKE' comes from an old Brian Wilson instrumental. The tune (actually entitled 'Stoked), is a blend of 12 bar blues and surf twang.
As for the STOKE sound, it's a bit like a Cuban hotrod. Built on an old chassis, and made to run with an eclectic and scavenged batch of parts.
Blacknblues proprietor ACM, overlooking a ramshackle riffyard of musical parts and pieces, wishes to announce the formation of a new musical enterprise known as the Snake Island Salvage Company.
"I'll see if I can get some of this stuff up and running," said ACM dubiously.