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...
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!
Howdy
Thank you very much for the Link Up & Sharing Your Music
Nice to meet you through cyberlink!
Keep up the Great Work!
Wishes you All the Best in 2009!
Enjoy your Weekend!
One-Off Show with a Horn Section, Backing Singers & Special Guests. With Support from Jamie Hutchings & His Imaginary Choir, The Disbelievers & Kirin J Callinan. This Thursday!!!
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