BACK AFTER MODEST DEMAND
ALBUM LAUNCH SHOW FOR SPEEDVARK’S 2000 DEBUT
‘PIGEON POP: 22ND ANNIVERSARY EDITION’ (REISSUED ON 22ND DEC 2022)
Original Hits including Black Fly! The Rhino Song! Here We Go! Pressure Rising! I Hate Your Mother!
As well as crashing our way through some of the best songs ever written by other people: Zeppelin (Led)! Underground (The Velvet)! Kravitz (Lenny)! Beatles (The)! Brothers (The Everly)! And Band (The Sensational Alex Harvey)!
“Hemel Hempstead’s answer to Talking Heads”
UNCUT
“This record doesn’t sound much like anything else around at the moment”
CLASH MAGAZINE
‘About as truly original as you can get’
NATIONAL BAND REGISTER
‘A knees-up redefinition of the term eclectic’
Q MAGAZINE
‘So leftfield that it’s almost right.’
THE FLY
When Speedvark released their first album ‘Pigeon Pop’, 22 years ago, their quirky mix of story-telling, genre-bending and self-deprecation had reviewers scratching their heads. Why write a song about freezing up in the public lavs (‘Panic’)? Why get so passionate about middle management (‘(Market) Research Man’)? Why declare in their opening song they were ‘completely terrified’ (‘Nervous’). WTF were they on when they wrote ‘Plants’? Or ‘Geoffrey Ace’? Or any of it?
When interviewed for this reissue, lead backing vocalist, 2nd trumpet player and non-playing member Ben Raudnitz - also known as ‘B’ said “Umm….”. Further comment was neither offered nor sought. The other members are: Pedro Flatt, who plays the French, English and Japanese Horn, Mig on Trombone, Nath on castanets, clarinet, spoons, klavier, crumhorn, flageolet, lyre and bugle and Marcus on Egyptian bagpipes.
Tickets on the door £10 / U18’s and Octogenarians £5 / the deceased £50, or £75 for a pair
Source: The Fiddler's Elbow website
