Band Profile - Kazoo Funk Orchestra
Genre: Alternative
The Kazoo Funk Orchestra are an alternative indie pop collective from
Glasgow, Scotland. Formed in 2005 during a finger painting session
attended by chief songwriters Little Beard and Big Beard. Taking
inspiration from various artists and genres, they created a unique mesh
of indie, pop, rock and hip-hop. Within a couple weeks, the duo formed
the backbone of the band with a few friends and had already begun
recording tracks for the debut album 'Midnight Finger Painter'.
Out of the blue, an impromptu set was performed at King
Tut's Wah Wah Hut when Misty's Big Adventure pulled out at the last
minute. This urgency of this set brought together two new members of
the band, Grum and The Boy Blunder who joined Little Beard on stage for
the Kazoo Funk Orchestra's first ever live performance.
With no set songs, a guitar, a toy roll out keyboard
mat and a couple kazoo's, the brightly clad trio took the audience
through a 20 minute set of improvised music to a bewildered audience.
As the recording of 'Midnight Finger Painter'
continued the size of the band grew with various musicians appearing at
sessions including renowned scratch DJ Krash Slaughta. Once the album
was nearing completion, members of the band facilitated finger painting
sessions at local music venues where anyone could join in and create a
unique finger painting, which would be given away with the first 500
copies of the album. In May 2006, 'Midnight Finger Painter' was
released online and in selected record shops under their own label
Planet Groucho Records.
With great feedback from the album and finger
painting sessions, the collective decided to book a few shows with the
new lineup, featuring Boyce, Jim 'n' Tonic, Smalls, Mechanical Monkey,
El Baterista and the aforementioned. They played the local student
union and a few respected venues in Glasgow and Edinburgh in front of
packed out crowds. The response was so good in fact, bookings started
coming in for more shows.
Late in 2006, Krash Slaughta and Jim 'n' Tonic left
the band to work on their own material. This was around the same time
that Little Beard and Smalls relocated to Toronto, Canada. So the
collective decided that it best use this gap to do some more recording
and started work on 'Adventures In Fuzzy Felt Land' a 13 track E.P.
featuring a more laid back side to the collective. The majority of the
record was recorded by passing audio files back and forth over the
internet, sometimes taking only 20 mins each to come up with new parts
for a track. The E.P. was released online and in selected record shops,
January 2007.
As the summer of 2007 approached, The Kazoo Funk
Orchestra had booked up their first full UK tour featuring a couple
festival dates (Wickerman Festival & Connect Festival) and took
their show on the road with the addition of new scratch DJ Mr Bruff. In
an explosion of balloons and confetti, they turned each gig into a
party, inviting the crowd to join in on the fun. And with standing room
only outside the Solus tent at the Wickerman Festival, the collective
secured the closing slot for Wickerman 2008.
Kazoo Funk Orchestra's Popular MP3s
  | | Baby You've No Eyes (2:03 / 1.88 MB / 128kbps CBR / 16 plays) |
| | Lizards on the Back Porch (1:36 / 2.94 MB / 256kbps CBR / 8 plays) |
| | Fictional (2:11 / 3.99 MB / 256kbps CBR / 8 plays) |
| | The Half Hour Song (1:28 / 1.34 MB / 128kbps CBR / 6 plays) |
| | Mr Pistachio (1:06 / 2.02 MB / 256kbps CBR / 6 plays) |
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February 28th 2008 :: In the run up to the release of 'This Album is Self Titled' we'll be giving away a brand new track every Monday. The album will feature 50 ...
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