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The Trouser Trumpets

"A Dance Band With Vocal Refrain"

About Me

The Trouser Trumpets. A Kent based band celebrating the music of Spike Jones, The Bonzo's and many other curios' and oddities from just outside the box. Drawn together from a love of all things foolish.After the runaway success of our Christmas single "EVERY DAY IS CHRISTMAS DAY WITH YOU"(we must have sold well over 30 copies worldwide) we are all set to record our first album in the spring,and it promises to be as well recieved as our sellout single. The Trouser Trumpets are a very silly, although musically slick and accomplished outfit. Where else would you see a band that boasts..........Giant Jellyfish on a stick. Seadogs attire. Vintage Klaxons and Carhorns. Cracked Titanic Bells. Cowbells. Banjoleles. Sousaphones. An expectant Euphoniumist. A Beautiful Trombonist. A collective age of 1, 251. A Keyboard genius sometimes called 'Frodo'. Bubbles, lots of Bubbles. A drummer who makes the world's best scrambled egg. 'Wibberly-Wobberly'. Swanee Whistles. An ex-stand up comic and Eric Morcambe lookalike who can also sing a mean tune. Gospel songs. A nurse Saxophonist. Jelly Jim. Jumping Fish. Kazoo choruses. Ragtime Cowboys. Duck Calls. Chinese Roosters. Silly hats and loud shirts. Peter Cook, without Dudley Moore. Ninetyyear old Jellyfish operators.Ice cream scoops.? Imagine.............Call 07988 630544 or contact [email protected] to find out more about this much loved and rather unique outfit, the album and how to book us..........

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Member Since: 2/26/2007
Band Website: trousertrumpets.co.uk
Band Members: Andy Capon - Drums, Percussion, Kazoo, Vocals*Gerry Birch - SousaphonePete Cook - Saxophone*Jelly Jim - Guitar, Banjolele, Kazoo, Vocals*Lawrence Fletcher - Saxophone*Steve Graham - Vocals, Noises*Dame Alice Kinloch - Double Belled Euphonium*I J - Keyboards, Kazoo, Vocals*Emma Scopes - Trumpet*Dianne Strauss - Trombone, Kazoo*Carol Walton - Backing Vocals*Malcolm Walton - Trumpet*Sir Chris Yelf - Tuba, Sousaphone, Helicon............Getting a 10 piece band together was never going to be easy, and some good musicians came and went through the doors at Trumpet Towers during the formative year. A big up, and special thanks to the hugely talented alumni that is; Jim Bradley, Justin Mitchell, Mark Thompson, Kate Windsor, Neil Lawson, Robbo, Trevor Stevenson, Charles Vandemburgh, Ray Newsam and Chris Hunter....
Influences: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Frank Zappa, Jack Payne, Spike Jones, Cider, The Clams, Temperence 7, Prof. Stanley Unwin, T-Rex, THC, The Jellybottys, Spike Milligan, Beer lots of Beer, Victor Borge, Ray Noble, The Cardiacs, Ian Dury, Allan Shermann, Al Bowlley, W.C.Fields, Monty Python and all things from just outside the musical box.....
Sounds Like: A bunch of silly arses let loose with some expensive instruments.
Record Label: Trumpet Records
Type of Label: None