tegunk profile picture

tegunk

About Me

tegunk has been involved in the Perth community arts and music scene since 2006, starting out in bands The Woolly Wombs, and Junkadelic. She has played music since she was a small child, beginning with piano, and branching out to clarinet, vocals, guitar, percussion, and most recently, piano accordion and junk flute. She has played around Perth and Fremantle with such bands as; The Woolly Wombs, Junkadelic/Hedge Bandits, Funk Junction (for their reunion gig), Double Entendre (as part of their gypsy orchestra), James Gentle (with Lignotuba, Gyunk, and now Valse Mutante), The Brown Note Collective (Hong Kong), Fungal Horse (touring China and Hong Kong), Rumskull, and Robyn Mavrick and the New World Record.Currently performing with the Hedge Bandits Junkadelic Collective and Rumskull, tegunk will be debuting her new riot gunk set on piano accordion very soon. Look out for some gypsy folk punk madness......


Myspace Layouts - Myspace Editor - Image Hosting

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/11/2007
Band Members: tegan (piano accordion, vocals, clarinet, guitar, percussion, junk flute)
Influences: ani di franco, tecoma, double entendre, the dirty three, gogol bordello, penguin cafe orchestra, bikini kill, lunachicks, paul baribeau, ghostmice, defiance ohio, chicks on speed, bjork, ember swift, leadbelly, woody guthrie, balkan beat box, the bad plus, portishead, mischief brew, junkadelic, funk junction, the woolly wombs, monsieur camembert, doch, django reinhardt, mazzy star, pj harvey, patti smith, the hedge bandits ukelele orchestra, the crackow klezmer band, mutiny, goran bregovic, the herd, the dresden dolls, cyclowns, sublime, the beatles, fat freddy's drop, bob dylan, john lennon, gil scott-heron, kaki king, the pixies, ozomatli, the dead kennedys, tracey chapman, combat wombat, my mum (and my mum's face), all my incredible musical friends and lovers
Sounds Like: vegan gypsy punk
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

the new stuff

so i'm still in p-earth, not being so good at resisting its massive gravitational pull.been pretty quiet lately - i've been getting out there, but not as a solo artist. recent gigs include the zigzag ...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:59:00 GMT

recording, babies and other stuff

so....since i last posted on this blog, i have returned from travelling (3 months ago), and have rejoined or joined various bands (hedge bandits junkadelic collective, rumskull, lignotuba, etc). i've ...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:00:00 GMT

fungal horse tour china

yes, you heard right. fungal horse, the band that formed from the members of junkadelic who got left behind in china, is actually gonna do a tour........ well, a mini-tour, anyway. right now, me n the...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:53:00 GMT

awes like a mama-fungal horse

so. currently i'm in kunming, hanging out at a nice hostel and hoping that the effects of the binge-drinking of the last few weeks will wear off soon! (at least i'm not hung-over anymore. dali an...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:56:00 GMT

dodgy youtube vids

well, i did promise dodgy live recordings, so here's some links to some youtube vids of me playin at the wanch in hong kong. the first song is my lovely cover of avril lavigne's "girlfriend" (although...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 03:48:00 GMT