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The Wildebeests

The Lairds of the Boss Racket

About Me

Ah, The bloody Wildebeests, true purveyors of the 'Dimbo beat' and all round Din meisters...These three lairds have been polluting the worlds ears for what seems like an eternity now what with each members previous bands and with the sheer volume of recordings, records and gigs that they've seen fit to unleash upon an unsuspecting public.The band consists of these three gits John Gibbs (The Kaisers, Holly Golightly The Masonics), Lenny Helsing (Thanes, Green Telescope) and last but not least Russ Wilkins (Pop Rivets, Milkshakes and Delmonas) who all cut their teeth playing raw beat music and generally causing a rumpus aurally, when their paths crossed they found that they had the same old cranky, rusty equipment plus some new(ish) shiny tunes that had accumulated along the way, the Wildebeests were born! fueled by enthusiasm, dunce caps and other ingredients, like finding out that they all shared the same attitudes and ideas when it came to what 'making a right old honest bloody racket' was all about...and thusly the Wildebeests did verily go forth and bang , scrape, thump and twang.Utilising the sheer sonic force of their 50 Watt P.A, 50 Watt Treble 'n' Bass and the blistering power of the 15 Watt guitar 'knee trembler' the 'Beests have stumbled through the shady underbellies of the popular music scene building a large following of like-minded 'dimbos' and 'dimbettes' both in Britain and the rest of Europe...releasing platters on some of the worlds finest record labels including Sympathy for the record Industry, Norton and Screaming Apple.Could the world be their oyster? nope, but this doesn't deter them from jabbing a knife in it's side and trying to prise it open...

My Interests


NEW SINGLE NOW OUT ON SLOVENLY RECORDS!!
Lenny Helsing, Popeye and Fu Manchu

I'd like to meet:



Russ' Arse, A ladies leopardy printy arse and a complete arse playing the bass...

Music:



Movies:



Primitive '07

Primitive festival '07

Lenny goes all 'pointy Hat'...

Television:

Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, Secret Service, UFO, Twilight Zone, The Outer limits, Watch with mother, The singing ringing tree, Not only but also, Hartnell Dr Who, Troughton Dr Who, Quatermass (BBC), Gigantor (B/W), Ren and Stimpy, Simpsons, The Sweeney, Avengers, Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Voyage to the bottom of the sea... get the picture?

Books:

'Dr Fegg's Encyclopedia of all world knowledge', 'How to start a Beat group' by the Hollies, Colonel Bagshots 'How to Hunt the sleekit tiger with a blunderbuss and miss', 'Saxy Lady' by Foochin Cont, 'Woirkin' for de yankee dollah' by Al Jobson

Heroes:


Bruke Feruke (and his Jambusters), Terry Sylvester, Johhny Moped, Troy Tempest, Mike Mercury, Steve Zodiac and Jimmy Squarefoot.

My Blog

WILDEBEESTS LIVE ON STAGE!

COME YE! COME SEE THE WILDEBEESTS IN A RARE LIVE APPEARANCE IN THEIR FORMER HOME TOWN, EDINBURGH, THIS SATURDAY EVENING 5TH MAY 2007 FROM 8PM-3AM AT "BEATSVILLE" THE CLUB WHERE ALL THE ACTIO...
Posted by The Wildebeests on Thu, 03 May 2007 10:41:00 PST