[18/03/08] The EP is out now! Click
here to grab yourself a copy. Thanks to all who packed out the Soul Cellar on Friday for the launch - we had fun, hope you did too!
[08/03/08] Paul and Mike are being interviewed on Surge Radio tomorrow evening. Listen in from 8:00pm (it’s online here or on 1287am if you can get it).
[03/03/08] Thanks once again to Xan for playing Buzz Buzz on Original last night. He also plugged our gig...
Tell your friends. Tell your friends to tell their friends, etc etc. It will be a great night and the EP will, of course, be available!
[25/02/08] Thanks to Xan Phillips on Original 106 for playing us last night. And thanks to you if you came to find us!
[05/02/08] The new EP is coming. It’s called Psychedelicatessen (geddit?) and we’re unleashing it on the internet on 17th March. There is also a launch gig happening at the Soul Cellar (see up there^) and it’s gonna be immense. That’s on 14th March, and there’ll be limited edition CDs of the record available there. Sweet.
[27/01/08] Thanks to all who tuned in to hear us on Surge Radio tonight! Glad you enjoyed us enough to look for us here. Bad For You is going up momentarily, and look out for us on future shows as we shall be honouring the request to send more material, as yet unheard by anyone!
[05/01/08] We are making a new EP, and it is amazing. 3 studio tracks, 3 live tracks. We’ll be releasing it as a download within the next two months... watch this space.
[09/07/07] Thanks to all who came and saw rugged at Park100. We had such a good time! Photos up soon hopefully.
[04/04] Come see Rugged play live!! Gigs are happening this friday (6th) at the hub in Eastleigh, [message us for info] and at the soul cellar in soton on 27th April (see above poster). Please come along and hear the new material which is ridiculous, buy the record and have a great time!!
[19/03] The album is out today! Head over to resident alien now to grab your copy!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the soul police:
Featuring ’Severe Operations’, ’Bad For You’, and ’Buzz Buzz’.
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Psychedelicatessen finds RF picking up pretty much where they left off - walking that elusive line between face-melting groovemongery and enigmatic introspection. There’s funk, dance, soul, trip-hop and even balladry of a sort, over the course of five tracks (three studio, two live takes). This time though, the songs are tighter, the beats are harder and the subject matter is clearer. In short, this is RF at their most accessible, hard-hitting and ridiculous yet. And as if that wasn’t enough, we have two words for you: "stylophone solo". Let’s just say that Psychedelicatessen has its fair share.
Tracklist:
Space Heating (Phase II)
Severe Operations
Bad For You
Buzz Buzz
Bomb Citites
Featuring ’That Girl Blew Down My House’, ’Guacamole/beret’, and ’Venus’.
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Taken from a series of shows performed between November 2004 and the summer of 2005, this full-length album is Rugged at their best - suprising, dramatic, hilarious and tragic. Nine tracks span the journey to date - tunes laced with quirky rhymes and riffs, impromptu soloing and an impossibly groovy underscore; musical creations that plumb the depths of soul, hip-hop, jazz and electro.
The album itself comes packaged in a lovingly crafted, hand-painted digipak case, with an absolutely unique segment of the design shown above. The strictly limited edition run won’t last long, so hurry...
Celebrate the launch of the album by downloading a free desktop wallpaper here. (Right-click the image and hit ’Set as Background’).
Tracklist:
Horlicks Revisited (Kind Words Are Like Honey)
Guacamole/Beret
Freedom
Venetian Blinded
I Got Lost On The Underground
Jack-of-the-box
That Girl Blew Down My House
Venus
Everything Runs Smoothly On The Day
Spaghetti for the blind:
Rugged Fantasia was formed in 1682 by a band of travelling Cornish minstrels. Since this fateful day, the lineup has undergone several fundamental changes, but the philsophy remains the same: we should not attempt to think outside the box so much as we should attempt to BE IT. This stance has not always been popular with the authorities. Following the invention of bass in 1754, the band were attacked when they exceeded the statutory decimation limits during a funk all-dayer at the local alehouse. The result was an outbreak of chronic face-melting amongst the local populace, and was deemed an unqualified PR disaster by cultural commentators.
Nevertheless, Rugged soldiered on and slowly rebuilt their cult following over the coming centuries. Recent times have seen the band stalking the streets of jazz like a soul policeman, administering funky justice to the citizens of noize and offering kindly assistance to the dear old ladies of trip-hop. The band has attracted controversy again recently by cloaking itself in increasingly questionable metaphors. However, this seems to have been countered by their exceptional ill rhymes quotient, and their notoriously healthy jam profile - improvisation was up a staggering 436.1% in the last quarter alone.
Rugged Fantasia currently lives in Southampton. In its spare time it enjoys fine wines, lacrosse and German expressionist cinema.
How are you, Rugged Fantasia? Haven't checked in on you lately, so I swung by to wish you a happy September & hope you are feeling well! Listen, I have another track up on my page, "Attack Of The Mushroom People." You can hear it right now, if you'd like at: www.myspace.com/psychedelicpablo adios for now! Pablo
