The Doubleshots was formed in the late summer of 2001, after guitar-player Ruben walked into a bar named 'Bukkus'. At the time a local band - Ol' Man Trouble - was tearing up the place with their interim bass-player, Mike. After the show Ruben came up to Mike and told him 'We gotta play in a band together!' So, Ruben hooked up his longtime friend Sebastian and The Doubleshots were go! The first rehearsal was late august, and two weeks later they played in Doornroosje (Nijmegen) - a hell of a show! Though they weren't allowed to play longer than 30 minutes, they teared the place right up - take a look at the pics! From then on, The Doubleshots were planning on playing more shows as fast as possible...catch 'em if you get the chance!

Now, from the beginning The Doubleshots had very clear in mind what they were gonna do: mix a dirty, swampish shuffling blues-sound with a hardhitting 'n pumpin' rockabilly-beat. With not much effort to define the precise form of their path, The Doubleshots also call this 'rockabilly-blues'. For the lads in the band this means to turn up the volume of the original '61 Fender Vibrolux-amp beyond ten (not to speak of the slaying technique on those poor screaming big fat strings), slap the strings of the bass right through that huge doghouse, and hit the skins harder than a Neanderthaler who just caught a steer. Mainly, The Doubleshots are influenced by the likes of The Paladins, the early recordings of The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Blasters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, but also by older heroes like Joe Clay, Elvis, Johnny Burnette, Eddie Bond, John Lee Hooker and T-Bone Walker.
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