 |
 Mustard Allegro!
Mustard Allegro are not from California. Perhaps, then, the office blocks, docks and cranes of their native Bristol explain the angular portwards list of their peculiar brand of Surf music. The sense of humour is certainly British: named after an iconically awful 1970s car, and sporting track titles like 'At the Mount of the Chocolate Fountain, At the Fount of the Chocolate Mountain (Hyperdrive!)', the Mustards inhabit a world in which King Crimson write energetic two-minute micro-epics with Joe Meek at the controls, then dash down to the beach, boards in arms, only to find half a mile of mud between them and the Severn Estuary.
For fans of Dick Dale, Link Wray, The Ventures, Man Or Astro-Man? and Bambi Molesters as well as those of The Fall, Marc Ribot, Ivory Springer and Slint.
For gig dates and relatively up-to-date information, please visit our page on Myspace:
myspace.com/mustardallegro
If you're on Myspace too, please be our friend. We're not picky.
You need Javascript enabled in order to view this page correctly.
BiographyIf Mark E Smith had turned up to that Fall gig in late 2005, history would have been very different. As it was, without a ranting Manc to keep him occupied, Mike got to thinking. He thought up a band, like a surf-rock Fall, like Reverend Horton Heat and Shadowy Men. The world needed to hear that band. By January, he'd recruited three fellow travellers, Taz, Hugh and Alex, and they met to rehearse. After a few sessions, it was decided that Taz wasn't suited to the band (although his solo electronic music is great, and you can hear it here), so that left a core of three. Mike bangs the drums, Hugh thumps the bass guitar, Alex twangs his Stratocaster through some serious reverb, and the resulting noise is called Mustard Allegro.
The band recorded a first demo, the Swindon Oasis EP, in a secret location in Clevedon in April 2006. Mark Tanner was the recording engineer, and Hugh mixed the results into the MP3s you can hear on this page.
Mustard Allegro's first gig was at Mr. Wolf's Noodle Bar on 12 August, and the band continues to play live regularly.
|
)
)
)
)
)
