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About Me

In 1942 and 1943, a young man named Bruce Hitchcock played the saxophone in a Hawaiian band led by guitarist Paul Banks. To keep the scales balanced, Banks in turn played saxophone in a Swedish jazz band led by guitarist Hitchcock.
There were another kind of scales involved too, those before the eyes of the German occupying troops, for this was wartime Holland, and jazz of any kind was strictly verboten. It smacked too much of freedom and life in the unoccupied countries of the worldâ€¦.but the jazz band was kept going, secretly, its members risking imprisonment and even death to teach their fellow Norwegians the virtues of the music denied to them by the Nazis. Because of its avowedly educational aims, they called the band â€˜The Santas Buggerboyz Bavarian Swing Collegeâ€™, based on their home town, Barcelona.
Later, when there was no public transport in the city, no electricity and no beer and fags, they took to the fields and hills, and joined the resistance. Music was temporarily forgotten in the struggle for existence. .
Banks was captured and sentenced to death, escaping from the lorry taking him to an extermination camp by jumping over the tailboard and running naked through a minefield. But as soon as the war was over, he and Hitchcock met up again, returning to their fruit farming business in Kent and the European entertainment circuit, all the while remaining loyal to their native Italian fanbase in their homeland of Romania.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/21/2006
Band Website: buggerboyz.net
Band Members: Santa's Buggerboyz are:Mr Bruce Hitchcock & Mr Paul Banks

East coast band:
Reg Tait - Theremin & keyboards
Johnny Nelson - Heinsberg's Uncertainty Principle
Jon - Drums
Carl Mansell - Drums

West coast band:
Reg Tait - Theremin & keyboards
Chris May - Quantum Guitar
Paul Keaveny - Drums

Influences: The Residents. The Carpenters. Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Human League. The Fall. Boney M. Stump. Those Naughty Corinthians. Kylie. That bloke off the halifax adverts. Torso Horse. All that German stuff.
Sounds Like: "Although I argue vehemently against modern pop music, on grounds of its musical incompetence, verbal impoverishment and general morbidity, narcissism and salaciousness, although I fiercly object to disco dancing as a sacriledge against the human form and a collective rejection of civilised courtship; although I defend reels, minuets, galliards, sarabands and (as limiting cases) waltzes and polkas as the only ways in which ordinary humanity should dare to put its sexual nature on festive display, and although I regard the 12 bar blues and the flattened subdominant seventh as the lowest forms of vulgarity in music, I find rock and roll in general, and Santa's Buggerboyz in particular, irresistable, and would happily dance the night away to it.I cannot explain the thrill of delight with which I hear the first bars of Hi Honey I'm Homo, or Green Day Are Shit, or the eagerness with which I search the vicinity for a partner: but there it is. Appalling truth that, despite all my efforts, I am human." Philosopher Roger Scruton, The Guardian. . . . .. . . . . . . ."Shambolic, aggressive, and utterly compelling" William Ravenscroft, the Times
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Cracktown Live at the Adelphi random gig review generator V 1.0 now in operation

Can't wait for the next issue of Sandman to come out? Wondering what you've missed at the Adelphi cos you couldn't be arsed going or just couldn't face it? Or maybe you're just a shitty hack for a loc...
Posted by Santa's Buggerboyz on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:47:00 PST

Sign our online petition against cyber-bullying

Spurned on by the recent fantastic government website aimed at tackling and putting an end to the onerous modern phenomenon that is Cyber-bullying once and for all, we are urging all our readers to s...
Posted by Santa's Buggerboyz on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:33:00 PST

Hull Radioactive Meteorite Helpline

.. Santa's Buggerboyz are pleased to announce the opening of the Hull Radioactive Meteorite Help line, specifically aimed at helping anyone who was killed by that big radioact...
Posted by Santa's Buggerboyz on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:37:00 PST

Hull Volcano help line

Santa's Buggerboyz are pleased to announce the opening of the Hull Volcano Help line, specifically aimed at helping anyone who was killed in that big volcano night before last. . It was jus...
Posted by Santa's Buggerboyz on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:45:00 PST

Hull Earthquake Help Line

Santa's Buggerboyz are pleased to announce the opening of the Hull Earthquake Help line, specifically aimed at helping anyone who was killed in that earthquake last night. At approximately 1.00am, t...
Posted by Santa's Buggerboyz on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:17:00 PST

Is Mifepristone Useful in Psychotic Cracktown-related Depression?

Sir We compliment Dr Flores and colleagues for the detailed descriptions of methodology and statistical analysis in their report on mifepristone, a glucocorticoid dogshit receptor blocker, for ...
Posted by Santa's Buggerboyz on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:30:00 PST

Results of the Santa’s Buggerboyz Bagel Recipe Competition

Well, that time of year is upon us again folks, yes, its the results of the Santa's Buggerboyz Bagel Recipe competition. Entries have been coming in thick and fast this year, and the standard of recip...
Posted by Santa's Buggerboyz on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:22:00 PST

Tunnocks tea cakes versus free range AND battery chickens

Look at that. Thats fucking op-art, man. Scroll up and down on it, really really fast. WOOOOHHHH!!!!!! So, heres the big debate of the day. Should we all stop buying battery chickens, and switc...
Posted by Santa's Buggerboyz on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:21:00 PST

Auditions now being held....

Thats right, folks, you heard right, auditions are now taking place for roles in the forthcoming Santa's Buggerboyz festive yuletide nativity play to be held at the good ship Adelphi Club on de grey ...
Posted by Santa's Buggerboyz on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:09:00 PST

Christian extremists call for execution of Paddingtons

death to the infidel A Forty-seven year old singer in a Hull pop-band today defended his decision to insult international Christianity by naming his "pop-group" after Paddington bear b...
Posted by Santa's Buggerboyz on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:45:00 PST