Big Russ - trumpet, trombone, glockenspiel, bass guitar, flute
Suzie Creamcheese - percussion
Influences
here they are in random order: Tim Buckley, Bob Dylan, Captain Beefheart, Joan Baez, Nick Cave, Comte de Lautréamont, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Doors, Bob Marley, Erik Satie, John Cage, Sergei Rachmaninov, Frédéric Chopin, LSD, Frank Zappa, Jeff Buckley, Om Kalsoum, Mashina, Love, Albert Ayler, Dada, Léo Ferré Nick Drake, Hildegard von Bingen, Wine, Syd Barrett, Bill Hicks, Toy Death, The Hauntingly Beautiful Mousemoon, Ludwig van Beethoven, The Sugar Cubes, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jacques Brel, George Antheil, Tori Amos, Linda Perhacs, Andre Breton, Devendra Banhart, M.C. Escher, Woodie Guthrie, Huddie William Ledbetter (LeadBelly), Pot, Ravi Shankar, The Mars Volta, Edith Piaf, Aviv Geffen, Noam Chomsky, Rage Against the Machine, Dmitri Shostakovich, Salvador Dali, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Claude Debussy, Bjork, Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, John Coltrane, Aldous Huxley, Darth Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson, Joanna Newsom, Odetta...
"The Ballad of the Chimp" was the single of the week in Brisbane’s Time Off magazine (March 2009). The review is below:
BUD PETAL
The Ballad Of The Chimp
(Independent)
My whole life I have been waiting for a song written from the perspective of a chimp and I never even knew it! “They try to teach me sign language as if I were human child, but all I ever wanted was a banana,” so goes the first line of this song which answers the question that Kellogg’s chimp would have no doubt sprouted if asked in song how he felt about the mad bastard trying to prove he could grow up human if raised in that fashion. ‘The Ballad Of The Chimp’ goes on like this for about four minutes, while music that I wouldn’t be surprised to learn is also played by monkeys meanders painfully in the background. The seven-inch contains a remix, also possibly done by some kind of primate. No contest for single of the week then really.
Bud Petal’s music has been described as “cerebral art-folk”; “like a chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine, an umbrella, Noam Chomsky’s book ‘Year 501: The Conquest Continues’, and early Bob Dylan”; “the music Lord Byron would be making had he lived in the 21st century and taught himself how to play the guitar”; “what you get if you mix love, politics, and surrealism”; and “the feeling one gets when drowning within a sea of smiles”.
Bud Petal tends to agree with such descriptions, but would also like to add the list of influences on the left to the aforementioned chance meeting on a dissecting table at the docks...
Hullo, Is this weather not revolting? we'll actually to be honest I quite like the drama of it, wet n windy, oh so very moody, odd - a little out of place for Sydney in Summer. I just wanted to set you know, if your in Newtown tonight pop into @Newtown RSL (Enmore Rd) - MA will be playing at 11pm, its a free show, be great to see you x MA
Hey, If you not doing anything on Saturday the 6th of Feb, pop into @Newtown RSL (Enmore Rd) - MA will be playing along with SEVEN MILES TO PARADISE, SHOT AT SUNRISE, PAINTBOX CITY. Look forward to seeing you - Love MA
Derkajam plays the Huntsbury Hotel with OLD MAN CROW and ANDY GOLLEDGE SAT 6th FEB from 7.30 125 New Canterbury Rd petersham its free so you should come down.......
The Wildest Australia Day Event Sydney has ever seen - “Wild Colonial Day” At the Original Slim Dusty Pub, The Town & Country Hotel, St Peters NSW for more info go to www.myspace.com/barflypromotions blog
Are you interested in playing the feature spot at the unherd open mic on monday nights at the sandringham hotel in Newtown? please contact: unherdproductions@gmail.com.
we are currently booking for monday nights in JAN/FEB 2010 Full 45 min sets available for bands or performers, all styles welcome!
Hello!!! It's been awhile - sorry there hasn't been in any Australian shows for many months but we've been busy in Europe with a bunch of touring and we're now recording our new album in Berlin (scheduled for release in March). But to make up for it, here's a big (and silly) Merry Christmas from us (and from some hippos too) :
Some bold new artistic direction? Nah, Just us being silly!!! We did this track for our label's "Black Snow - the completely different Xmas compilation". (and of course, visit our youtube channel for a high quality version)
Wishing you a very silly Silly Season and we'll see you back in Australia sometime in 2010!
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