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The history of alphalfa according to Dave
I was a member of alphalfa even before we were a band, we were a figment of Deans fruitful and sometimes hallucinatory imagination. He, and then guitarist Vini Atkins, created an idea for a band for the 2004 battle of the bands at school, and Greg and I joined to make the numbers up on drums and bass. Several months and a few jam sessions later we performed a set of covers including, Mysterious girl (the Peter Andre), Privilege (Incubus), Parallel Universe (the Red-Hots) and the only song we could play properly, Sunshine of your Love (Cream). Following this we played several gigs, under several miss-spelt names, with several different line ups (We even supported Chinese, cheese punk sensation Get-Amped a few times, who have recently stopped being a band and turned into elastic wristband distributors). Jon Lee played bass for awhile allowing Vini and me to both play guitar. However, first Vini, then Jon left the band, leaving us without a bassist and only one guitar. Then my disbelief in fate was re-calibrated as I began to jam with Nick, and a few weeks, and a lot of skipped physics lessons later alphalfa were blessed with a new bassist. Following our first practice the musical connection was evident. Like a four-man thermal funk bomb, we shook Broadstone, caused irreparable damage to our own eardrums and practically vomited new material. You have to understand alphalfa had existed for over a year before Nick joined and written only two or three songs, and in the few weeks following we had a bevy of musical beauties at our disposal. This was destiny, we had found our soul mates (pun intended), and turned over at least 60 new leaves from the blooming tree of play-doh funk. So we set out to take on the world (or at least Poole and Bournemouth) by playing as many gigs as we possibly could. We are now in the process of finishing out debut sonic journey of discovery, creativity and funky animals, Party In The Primate Zoo. So check out this site from time to time and well try and get you a copy coz, although it might not change your life, as long as people getting eaten by Hoovers is funny, it might make you laugh.
‘Alphalfa generously dished up a wonderfully left-field canon of self-penned gems, romping funky indie songs that deserve to be championed on late night radio.' (The Bournemouth Daily Echo)
‘The highlight of the evening was the party-like frenzy Alphalfa whipped the crowd up into, infectiously and expertly engaging the audience more successfully than many bands could ever dream of.' (1st Degree Records)
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