No Hoodlums

The story of No Hoodlums starts in the summer of 1997. Like almost every punk kid they wanted to form their own band. When the bassplayer Iddo and the drummer Jeroen decided to rent a practice room at the youth centre of Oosterhout the brother of the bass player, Jeroen, jumped in at guitar. The musicians were complete. Now all they needed was a lead singer. They had several singers while practicing covers from bands like The Exploited, Sick of it all and Madball. Finally in fall that year they found William who was willing to sing
They recorded their first demo-tape called 'In this area'. Due to personal struggles William did not join the band too long. In the beginning of 1998 he was replaced by Mickel who was no complete stranger to the band as he already did the backing vocals on the 'In this area' demo-tape. interests, like drinking, skateboarding and political issues like racism.
the band's giglist grew fast. They already wrote a lot of decent songs and some of them they still play until this day. They recorded their second demo-tape called 'Join the police, arrest your friends' wich had more political lyrics, inspired by animal abuse and police brutality.

They recorded their first studio CD called 'Chaos NL'. Some of the songs of this album also appeared on various collection CD's.
They recorded their second studio album '...This is brainwashing'. Some songs were played on a dutch radiostation called Kink FM. It seemed they ran out of luck as the bass player decided to quit and continue his hardcore band D-Fens. With their biggest fan Stefan to replace him, they were able to keep up their heads and play on.
The new bass player picked up the old songs very quickly and managed to create a complete new bass style in the new songs. After a few months, they recorded a new demo-CD called 'Sunday morning, still at the bar'.