Whole Peeled first drew media attention as the junkyard band from the Green Island Rubbish tip. Their ingenious use of bicycles, washing machines and old crockery to create new and beautiful music was hailed as marvelous.
However, they soon tired of the restrictive and smelly conditions that came with performing at the rubbish dump, so the band decided to save up and invest in real musical instruments. Marky Joyce pawned his smurf collection to buy a drum kit. Wazza sold his baby teeth in a macabre raffle and got a telecaster, Tbaz managed to catch enough hedgehogs (each with a $10 bounty on their heads) to buy a decent violin. For a while, Fras and Sam didn't have instruments so when the band played they sang and danced around like mad men until the band could afford to purchase a bass for Fras and guitar and mandolin for Sam.
The band truely hit its stride about the summer of 1995. That's when the mayhem began. They toured the country (New Zealand) and released their music on CD (it was still kind of new and cool in 1996) aswell as a really really rare record (20 copies) which is still sought after today.
About mid 1997 the band decided to revert to a junkyard band, having become tired of the smokey atmospheres and drunk patrons. However, their junkyard music is now influenced by the kiwi-celtic sound that they'd become well known for.
It should be noted that Whole Peeled also played more acoustic oriented music under the name of The Maud Gonne Band. This website features music from both groups.
And now for something entirely different - Turn Me On: The History of the Vibrator (courtesy of AFTRS and Google Video) (Actually - produced by one of the chaps from Whole Peeled).
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Greetings from the snowy rocky mountains of Colorado. Wishing Whole Peeled a grand new year, and may our paths cross sooner than later.
Cheers, The Indulgers
