Eddie "The Orchestrator" Kulak, "Sugar" Ray McKnight, Martyn "Slap Bottom" Swain, Glyn "Wynton" Bartlett, Martin "Unforgettable" Villard, Ozzie "You're booked, son!" Orzel, Rick "Astral Traveler" Kulak, and Alfonso "The Bishop" Montuori. On special occasions, Dave "Ey-up lad!" Hughes, Steve "I just let it all slide off of me, man" Edhouse, Chris "I came to the band a bit late but I never came to the gig late, unlike some other guitarists I know" Bryant, Graham "Harpissed" Harvey, Donnie "Roadhouse Dog" Burke, Arthur "Bird" von Paumgarten, Mary Cosmos, John "Is that more Paki black you got there or am in the middle of a black out?" Kettner, Rupy Johnson, Eddie Lagan, Ian Pollock, and many, many more...
And of course, our inimitable manager, Mr. Rob Austin. Talk about staying power. The man is like those damn viagra ads: " If you have an erection that lasts longer than 4 hrs. please call your doctor." Well, We have a manager who's lasted over 20 years and we ain't callin' no doctor. Not that we've seen any money or nuffink. But he's an alright geezer.
Influences
Spirit (Future Games--A Kahuna Dream), The Beatles, Federico Fellini, Robert Fripp, Osibisa, Sounder, Sneaky Feelin's, Catch-22, Ishmael Reed, Bob Marley, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Mikey Dread, Tahiti, London, Timothy Leary, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Parker, The Mighty Diamonds, Flann O'Brien, Bananas, Pimlico, Under (the influence), Robert Anton Wilson, G.I. Gurdjieff, Konoko MacFishta, The Resistance, Brian Eno, Weather Report, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Shleho, Patrick McGoohan, The Prisoner, The Two Brewers in Clapham circa 1980, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone...
Sounds Like
If you don't like this one you (might) like the next one. If we can remember how to play it, that is.
REMIPEDS: 1979-1982
The Remipeds first appeared in the lively and flourishing music scene of post-punk London in the late 1970s. Right from the beginning, it was clear that this was no ordinary band jumping on many of the bandwagons that were making their way through the clubs and pubs of trend-crazed London. Initially confining their mind-bending live performances to the 23rd of every month and/or full moons, this band borrowed more from the future than the past or the present. A remarkable blend of rock, psychedelia, world-music, ambient, reggae and dub, techno, and postmodern juxtapositions of TV and movie themes with pseudo-political and outer-space samples, Remipeds never quite let the listener know what was going on by making sure the band didn't either.
The Remipeds burned brightly for around two years. Their meteoric rise to fame, coupled with an incredible creative output in the form of songs, interpretive dances, children's stories, multi-media events, bodily noises and fluids, and, sadly, much, much more, took London and indeed most of England by storm. Their influence can be said to have penetrated every nook and cranny of popular music today. Indeed, this may arguably be a good reason for the rapid decline of popular music in the new millennium.
Fortunately, most people have never heard of the Remipeds. There are several very good reasons for this tragic lapse. Along with what has come to be known in the literature as "The Cover-Up," the band was boycotted by major record companies following the infamous "EMI Xmas Caper." in this legendary episode, the lads found to their own surprise that record company executives are singularly lacking in sense of humor when it pertains to their own persons. After "humorously" squishing custard pies in the faces of all the A&R men at the EMI UK Christmas party at the Whitbread brewery, and then dancing on their tables while said A&R persons were trying to eat, the boys left assured that they, like every other band that had played at the EMI Xmas party, would be signed almost immediately. What were they thinking you may well ask? What more to the point, were they smoking? Were they on crack, you may well ask? Surely we know not to bite the hand that feeds us, particularly before it has fed us? Apparently not in the case of these young malcontents.
Living constantly at the temperature of their own destruction, and sometimes exceeding it to the point of becoming a health hazard, the frequently feverish Remipeds came to epitomize the power of Creativity, Freedom, Independent Music, and Post-Adolescent Stupidity. They proudly recorded on their own Banana Records as a statement against the corruption so rampant in the music industry, and because they insisted the album should be pressed on yellow vinyl. initially distributed by the legendary Rough Trade, the first album, "The Tahiti Syndrome," thrust the boys into a limelight they were far too bleary-eyed to notice. A recording for the BBCs John Peel Show was notable almost exclusively for the au naturel performance by the horn players.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions/1980s/1981/Aug17theremipeds/
Unfortunately, the complex challenge of reconciling order and disorder within the band's profoundly pluralistic and admittedly ample if somewhat sagging bosom soon proved unbearable for our young heroes. After a couple of years, the centripetal force created by Remipeds expelled the band members one after the other. The Remipeds disbanded in the early 80s, but not before leaving behind an astonishing body of work.
On this website, we'll bring to the attention of today's listeners a band that was so ahead of its time, it was once humorously speculated they were in fact time travellers. In a disturbing twist, we shall see that this bizarre conjecture may not be as outlandish as it might seem. (See last video below for a speculative clarification by the late great Robert Anton Wilson.)
Along with some of the more well-known Remiped songs, we'll also occasionally upload some of the songs that have never seen the light of day. Well, not publicly at least. And for very good reasons, we might add. Which all goes to show that despite their frenzied creative foolishness, the lads did, at the time, have some modicum of a sense of discrimination, which is a hell of a lot more than you can say for whoever is managing this myspace.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, AND TO BUY REMIPEDS CDs, PLEASE VISIT THE OFFICIAL REMIPEDS WEBSITE AT:
WWW.REMIPEDS.COM WWW.REMIPEDS.COM WWW.REMIPEDS.COM
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website.
You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
If it's too far from your home, if you have better things to do, if you're scared to go out...discover
Jack Dupon's video almost live at a private concert...
Oppression
Si c'est trop loin de chez vous, si vous avez mieux a faire, si sortir vous fait peur... Découvrez la vidéo de Jack Dupon presque en live lors d'un concert privé filmé sur Clermont-1ère en octobre 2008...
........Notre nouveau clip, entièrement fait à la main... PIG MONSTER.
Déjanté, hors normes, expérimental, décalé, théâtral, déglingué.
........Our new music video, entirely handstitched .... PIG MONSTER.
Crazy, non-standard, out of norme, unusual, experimental, out of phase, theatrical, delirious.
Pig Monster
BONNE ANNÉE, GROSSES BISES et VIVE le ROCK...
Hi guys - I am thinking back to those days at the 'Village' when I stood behind the desk for you. I have sent you a friend request with my sound man hat on too.
Thansk for letting me know bout my myspace being phished. It turns out i have posted it on many pages already. I hope they read their bullentin! Thanks, Noah
Hey, the ILLUMINATUS! comic art and some Kopyleft images including scans of the hardback Gordon "Principia Discordia", are up on my profile! Check it out! And I recently put some art by the late John Kovach up that includes a 5 page sequence of Simon Moon's early years from the ILLUMINATUS! comic John lettered and inked. KALLISTI! CLICK ABOVE TO VISIT THE EYE-N-APPLE PRODS. WEB SITE
It's just for Kicks Yeah!
We're all Rainbow Remipeds!
I like that video of Banana Blowed, didn't expect to see my Dad in there!
Thanks for the add!
Peace :-)
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