These good people have been kind enough to let me on stage with them in recent years, Danny Keane, Vlad Carboni, Ian Ritchie, Alex Hutton, Neil Innes, JJ Jones, Marcus O'Neill, Lewis Kirk, Bob Weissfeldner, Helen Boulding, Matt Chandler, Graham Fox, Robbie Pinna, Bizmark, Bucho, Charlie Finn, Sammi the drummer on drums, Rich Bignell, Mickey Simmonds, Andy Roberts, Sam Spoons, Bob Kerr, Rodney Slater, Roger Ruskin-Spear, 'Legs' Larry Smith, Phill Jupitus, Paul Merton, Stephen Fry, Adrian Edmondson, John Dowie, Holly Penfield, Bojan, Bostjan, Teats and Danjiel, Julian Saul, Spencer Jude Pearce, Adrian Garrett, Robin Cieslak, Emma the great, Chris Whittington, Alice Pratley, Robin Grey, Jonny Berliner and co, Dave Clark, Taka Boom, Andy Cortes, there's only one Winston Delandro, Coco, John and Phin Keane, Herbie Flowers, Pete Davison, Dave Candy, Tommy K, Boy George, Blair Jollands, Rhys Hughes, Katherine De Boer, Cousin Alice, Vashti, Tom Baxter, Oli Langford, Saul Eisenberg, Fishcake 'Guevara' Jackson, Ian Burgh, Ben Lee, Charlie 'for a brief moment' Winston, Ben Jawbreaker, Vince Dunn, Gav on trumpet and the band keeps getting bigger, daily.
Influences
Charles Mingus, Danny Keane, Jimmy Jazz Prescott on the bass used to do, Marcus O'Neill, Niels Henning-Orsted-Pederson, Ray Brown, need to think further on this
Hi, welcome indeed to this most convoluted of business cards,
isn't it fun.
As to me, I write occasional epic blogs which I post *exclusively*
ahem, here, on this site, just above, up there, yeah, have a look.
And I play double bass and drum badly.
The 'Poetry is Rubbish' myspace page is mine too for.. da da daaaah!
Yup, offensive poetry.
I've written two books you know...
They're not very good mind.
You can also find links to the other 'rubbish' pages.
So far we have; Poetry, Art, Religion and Tambourines.
All in fun. It is hoped that debate will ensue.
On which note could I just add that Extra-rubbish tunes
has a pair of tunes that I did myself..
He was the first one to get me enthused about jazz,
like, twelve years ago for which I thank him sometimes.
The man is profanely talented at both the pianoforte and
the violoncello. Truly unreservedly, it is only the fact that
we are indeed old muckers that I haven't taken my
twelve-bore to him.
Members:
Danny 'Spleen' Keane (pno) Vlad 'the dad' Carboni (dms)
I solemnly swear
to defend self-esteem
wherever it may be
without ever appearing
pompous or idiotic
and never to repeat
parrot fashion
anything I am told
by anyone posing
as an authority figure
so help me Rhonda
help help me Rhonda
Oooooh!
I could stamp my little foot
right, you're in
Members:
Neil Innes (gtr, uke, pno, vox, etc) JJ Jones (dms)
+ friends
Rutling Ken Thornton (gtr) The Terra Folk boys (alsrts) You
Them
All of us
Releases:
'Works in progress'
All songs written by Neil Innes
All songs copyright Neil Innes
Available now from Enygmag online shop where you may
care to browse some rare Innes albums and stuff.
For example:
'Dogman'
..a childrens tale by John Dowie in CD format,
narrated by top man Phill Jupitus with Neil's songs and music +JJ&I.
There are some classic Grimms albums and the like for sale also.
Plus it would be rude of me not to mention the absolute mountain of
material the Lad Himself has made over the past forty years and more.
You must check this site out, it is soon to be excellent.
Ego Warriors is a movement, started a few years back, by
accident, to cock a snoot at the tyranny of the modern age
in a kind of light hearted but firm way. And infirm also.
Fighting the tirade of mass mediocrity.
***PLEASE CHECK BLOG OF U.S. TOUR, OLDEST ENTRY FIRST***
or even subscribe for even more regular fun-filled updates even
***BONZO DVD out now***
'40th Anniversary Celebration of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band'
Recorded live, January 2006 at the Astoria, London.
Starring almost all of the Bonzo Dogs, a few celebs, JJ Jones & I.
(Classic Rock Productions)
The 'Bonzo's toured last November and I went along to see the last show,
they kicked the proverbial booty.
Plus, I believe they have a new album, thirty years in the making.
Which should be good.
So, I met this guy in the street and I was in a rush but
somehow we found each other and swapped numbers
and then it kind of kept happening and still does. Such is.
Milk plus, as in the drink the droogs drank at the milk plus mestos
of Anthony Burgess in his clockwork orange imagination.
Members:
Bucho Brown (vox) Robbie Pinna (Gtr) Bizmark (Kbds, programming) Slam Sammy (drums)
Releases:
***Album Coming Soon***
'Milk and honey' EP,
'Last of the mohicans' EP,
+ more forgotten demos only available by request,
some of the early stuff is worth getting your hands on
if you prefer rockin instrumental electronica type sounds.
All songs by Milk Plus
Currently:
Putting the finishing touches to the soon-to-be-released,
long-overdue and highly-anticipated album, ahem, 'Hit and Run'
after an agreement not to use a dairy influenced pun as a title.
Album to be independently released in the coming months
All independent releases so far
Label: Milk Moustache Records
Management: Self Management Co.
And a big shout out, if so vulgar an expression is permittable,
to all the staff at Area 18 for their time and support sofa...
Spencer Jude Pearce (vox, gtr, mndln) Alice Pratley (vln, string arrangements, bk vox) Robin Cieslak (dms, programming, bk vox) Chris Whittingham (add gtrs, sitar) Achilleas Anastasopoulos (tpt)
+ many many more
Releases:
'The Last Trilogy'
An album made of three parts, as good trilogies sometimes are:
Myspace Links..
Part 1 Jake Wellington and the Soldiers of Peace
Part 2 The Devil and the Dirty Feel ...and the Too Dark To Name
Part 3 The Love Making Music Band
The brainchild of Spencer Jude Pearce, London's finest busker,
'the last trilogy' is a stylistically diverse set of songs with an
underlying storyline which does as good a job as words can
when correctly failing to accept the bullshit in this crazy world.
This site is good fun, you can make Spencer dance for one,
you could also invest your hard earned moolah in the CD.
Gigs here and there, the main three parts were performed
live last year at three seperate purposefully set-up events
and are to be repeated as and when appropriate.
Ian Ritchie (sop sx, tnr sx) Alex Hutton (pno) Vladimiro Carboni (dms)
Releases:
'Soho Project'
Major sevenths a plenty and Soho streets brought to musical life.
Currently:
Well, this was us fairly recently, at the Malta Jazz Festival.
At the mo, Ian is touring with Roger Waters, Alex is touting
a new trio album of his own, and Vlad, between touring
the world and building a home, has headed off to live in
Italy having become a new dad this year.
Working with new tunes that have a distinctly minor vibe
which soon will be taking the world by storm.
the captain Lewis Kirk on the motherfucking drums (dms) the admiral Marcus O'Neill (vox, gtr, screaming harmonica)
and these days.. Chris Kelly on the bass on bass (dbl bs)
Releases:
2 Albums:
'Small town, big strides'
The Strides' debut CD available from the band website
and all good record stores, plus amazon and the like.
Also, and most usefully, a few decent download sites
and you could buy through the website 'buy' section also.
Or second hand record stores, ebay and charity shops.
Bloke behind the bookies, indeed any way you deem fit.
'Cry it all out'
Second album also and likewise..
5 singles:
'Suicidal'
'I do not fear jazz'
IDNFJ video on youtube somewhere
'Let's get nice'
.. LGN video
'Smiling' from the new album.
'Always together' also from the second album.
All songs written by Marcus O'Neill
Videos by O'Neill, Kirk and Twiname with others
Tom Pi, one of my evil siamese twins, who rocked hard with
the guys is credited for double bass services on these discs.
If you should ever care to wonder...
Get right down to it through this magical link the wonders of..
