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The Banana Sessions

About Me

We are the Banana Sessions. We're all about making sweet sweet music, cups of tea and big juicy bananas. Apparently, they're oh so good for you.

Free 'Sketchy Sessions' MP3s
plus Glorious Carrots FREE download
at
www.thebananasessions.co.uk



You can also find us on Facebook , Bebo and now Twitter ...

EP Out Now! Debut CD, Get yir teapot oot is out now, available from us exclusively at gigs, a mere £3 for 5 tracks and a free badge!



Mr. Caterpillar, Live at the Jazz Bar

Video for "The Drunken Dormouse"

From the EP, "Get Yir Teapot Oot"



Video For "Glorious Carrots":

Get the MP3 FREE at www.thebananasessions.co.uk

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/10/2006
Band Website: www.thebananasessions.co.uk
Band Members: The Banana Sessions are:
Roberta Pia - la la la's the songs
Calum Wood - strums the guitar
Tom Pickles - blows the flute, and other things
Calum McIntyre - goes bang bang on the drums
& when we're very lucky
Tom Donaldson - oompah oompah tuba

Influences: Donovan, Billie Holiday, The Doors, The Beatles, Velvet Underground, The Moldy Peaches, Cream, Super Adventure Club, Bombskare, Walt Disney... and, of course, tea and bananas have influenced us immensely.

Sounds Like: A lazy Sunday afternoon, when the sun is shining and you're drinking the best cup of tea you ever tasted, bitch. After you've finished your cup of tea, you walk into Alice in Wonderland and slot a coin into the jukebox. Happy Sundays.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Kelburn Garden Party/Insider Weekend

The next two weekends see the Bananas hitting two of the most exciting new festivals to spring up in Scotland for a long time...This weekend is the Kelburn Garden Party, at the gloriously colourful Ke...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:27:00 GMT

Limbo Review Photos

In typical last minute "Yeah, why the hell not?" Banana Sessions style, we stepped in to play a set for the folks at Edinburgh's excellent Limbo night last week, supporting The Stormy Seas and Punch &...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:23:00 GMT

The Banana Sessions Guide to the Perfect Cup of Tea

Making tea isn't easy. It's never easy. It's an art form. A religion, perhaps. The perfect cup of tea takes time, effort and, most importantly, a whole lotta love. I'm a firm believer in the fact that...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:40:00 GMT

An April Update...

Yesterday was the 1st of April. That is all.(Who's coming to the pub?!)
Posted by on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:55:00 GMT

A Written Apology

Admitting your faults is never the easiest thing to do, but it is something we all need to learn to do in order to grow, and to progress. This counts as much for a band as it does for an individual.Th...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:52:00 GMT

We love the Geordies.

The Banana Sessions played at The Star & Shadow Cinema Masked Ball on Friday the 13th of March. Unlucky for some, but lucky for The Bananas. Beginning their travels at 1 o'clock on Friday afternoon, w...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:25:00 GMT

Pigeons VS. Seagulls

The Banana Sessions were faced with what seemed like an impossible mission on Friday. Tom 'The Pickles' Pickles wanted four or five new tunes written in the next two weeks.We laughed. We cried. Then w...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:23:00 GMT

Ode to Dublin

Alrighty folks,Back from our jaunt in Dublin, where we found to our pleasant surprise they swall bucky and love craic. A couple of thanks to those chiefs who made our trip.Gary Plumber, for putting us...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:30:00 GMT

’Guerilla Gig’ Skinny Review

I suppose it was a guerilla gig... We weren't really setting out to do one of those when we got our instruments out on a rather busy train back from a gig in Glasgow, but it did end up being another g...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:17:00 GMT

Videos

We've been making videos. Had you noticed?There's another one coming soon, but then we might have run out of ideas.So... what would you like to see in a Banana Sessions video? We've got a long summer ...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:57:00 GMT