“The name comes from the father of my old bass player,” says frontman Dennie Sloot. Dennie met the former bassist at work. It clicked and the boys wanted to start a punk band. The most important? If only it went hard. ‘The real thing,’ Dennie thought. “And there you have it already. The Real McCoy. The real thing,” he explains.
The bass player’s father heard that the boys wanted to make ‘the real thing’, translated it into English and Dennie knew immediately what the band should be called.
The band had a completely different composition at first. “We messed around with that a bit. In the end we didn’t perform, but we did make our own songs,” explains Dennie. Even though the band did not perform, a foundation was laid, then with other members. But The Real McCoy fell apart. Dennie, however, wanted to continue. The Asser drummer Marnick Muller was asked to play drums temporarily. “But it’s still there,” laughs Dennie. He called his old fellow villager and guitarist Mervin Bel to come and play the guitar. “At that time I wasn’t doing very much; yes, working a bit, but not in the music,” explains Mervin, who didn’t have to think twice about it either. The band became complete six months ago when bassist Boris Mulder was asked to join, who at the time could not play bass at all. The four gentlemen are out of their corona sleep and ready to play.
The men seemed to be done with the corona, because there was quite a radio silence before the stage. “Not behind the scenes,” explains Dennie. “We’ve been very busy writing song.” In addition, they had to accompany the brand new bassist well, and not for nothing, because Dennie has good news. “We’ve recorded a single and it will be out soon. April 29th.” In addition, the band is busy rehearsing for a number of shows. At the end of April, for example, the men will be in ‘t Schienvat on Erica and May 5 at the liberation festival in Assen. And that’s about time, because there hasn’t been a performance in ages. “We stood still for two years,” says Dennie. “The last one was in the New Image back then,” Mervin recalls. “That’s a cafe in Assen”, Dennie adds again. “The time will go so soon.”
And performing, that is the most beautiful thing there is. Tap three times and go. An indescribable sensation. “That is a feeling I described in the issue that will be published on April 29. You always feel fear beforehand. It doesn’t matter how often you do it: you are always a bit nervous. But the moment you When the first note hits you know: this is what I want to do. That’s fantastic,” he says enthusiastically. “It’s nice to create a little chaos, stir people up a bit in the audience, a little push and pull. Yes, that’s nice.” There is no such thing as sitting still. The single is not out yet, but plans for after that have already been made. “We want to kick off immediately when it’s out”, Dennie smiles. “First see how it catches on and then back into the studio as soon as possible. Write new songs and perform. We’re going to stomp.”