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Think Stooges jamming with Skynyrd to a Kraftwerk song helmed by John Lord. What you get is a chicken-fried, feedback-basted 21-piece box of greasy southern-fried punk rock. What you get is Van Cleef." Since early 2008, Van Cleef has gigged the guts out of Adelaide, carving up a sonic feast with a diverse range of well-known local and interstate acts. Their debut demo ‘Lynching Hymns’ released in May 2008, hunkered in the top 20 local radio charts for months. It also landed them a spot in the 2008 Three D radio top 100+1 and an invite to record a live-to-air set that went into the charts at number 2 and remained there for a long time. Van Cleef was then selected to be on Three D Radio’s annual ‘best-of’ DEPTHCHARGE compilation CD to be released in late August 09. Yet perhaps the highlight so far was the release of Van Cleef’s debut E.P, Intergalactic Porn Swamp in May 09. It went straight into the charts at no.2 and has been getting mondo airplay on radio stations throughout SA &