Fanfare Ciocarlia, Cake, Ben Folds Five, Josie and the PussyCats, Goran Bregovic, Alice Cooper, rubber ducks, Meatloaf, Jake Thakery, Mr Bungle, Janis Joplin, Tomahawk, Ivor Cutler, The Kinks, Queen, Bonzo Dog Band, Temperance Seven, Benny Hill, David Bowie, Cider (for the brass section), Nick Cave, Soul Coughing, Nico, Buffy (the vampire slayer, of course), Lena Lovich, Joyce Grenville, Jane's Addiction, Tom Waits, Barbarella, Les Hurlements d'leo, Cuddly toys, 17 Hippies, Gogol Bordello, Black Sabbath, Elvis, Lidiya Ruslanova, Leningrad, Spalding, Banana Splits (all five of them), Bourbon biscuits and custard creams, Rumpus, Mike Patton, The Cat Empire...
Sounds Like
Well, imagine the bonzo dog band and Cake go on holiday to Russia. They rent a flat on the shores everything's going fine, they're listening to Burt Bacharach when Nick Cave comes round to borrow a cup of sugar but Tom Waits has already taken it all and he's using it to create gypsy brass sounds out of a dead cat that's stuck in a drainpipe.
Not only that but the 17 hippies are out in the barn picking fights with Gogol Bordello because they can't agree if the Beatles are better than the Kinks, but of course we ALL know the anwer to that question ... and that's what we sound like, give or take.
Bouncy music for people with a glint in their eye - imagine the Kinks and the Bonzo Dog Band with a bit of Russian ska thrown in. Songs of kitchen sink dramas, domestic problems and strange lovers burst through a wall of drums and brass and guitars.
Over the last few years we've played at Glastonbury, Lost Vagueness (Sheffield),Shambala, Cabaret Heaven, Shefstock, the Octagon, Peace in the Park, Music in the Sun and were featured on BBC Music Live. Our live show is theatrical and full-on, replete with furs, feathers, gizmos, shears and a four armed drummer boy.
Line up: Vocals, percussion, shears - LYN Vocals, guitar - RICHARD Bass guitar - DYLAN Sax and vocals - TEGI Euphonium - MATT Trumpet and vocals- HAZEL Drums - STEVE Drums, vocals and onstage heckling - SIMON Monkeyboy - MONKEYBOY
Cheers for accepting my add. Please check out Empty Space, contemporary art radio, live on www.sheffieldlive.org (93.2FM in Sheffield) every Tuesday morning, and archived at www.fadwebsite.com
Hello!!! Laura from King Wong here. Thanks so much again for the most amazingly fun night at seaweed biscuit last week. When did you say your gig at the grapes was?xx
WE LOVE YOU POKE me and my two friends were the 'threesome' at the front that were dancing like gypsies thanks to your inspirational act! get some firefly pics up!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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WOW! ...Who finally ate the biscuit? But even BIGGER GODDARN WOW - LOST VAGUENESS!! What a coup guys, all your frolicking has paid off ;] Do you need a couple of wayward cleaners again? I'm dying for a Lost Vagueness dusting!! :p
