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The Aardvarks

About Me


The Aardvarks were a psych-pop, garage combo from Ealing who ran from 1983 - 2004.


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/29/2008
Band Members: Gary Pietronave - vocals, guitar
Mark Pietronave - guitar, vocals
Jason Hobart - bass guitar
Ian O'Sullivan - drums

They also served:

Gavin Pearce - drums/bass 1983-1988
Kevin "Blonde" White - bass 1994-2002

1989

1991

Influences: Who, Creation, Eyes, Idle Race, Move, Bee Gees, John Mayall, Pretty Things, Litter, Zombies, Prisoners, Milkshakes, Small Faces, Traffic, Kaleidoscope, Poets, Yardbirds, The Pink Floyd....er...
Sounds Like:
The Arthur C. Clarke EP
(Screaming Apple, 1989)

Recorded in November 1989 at Red Studios, Kent with the (then) whiskey guzzling Billy Childish on lever-pulling duties. Childish showed no mercy for our sorry, hungover, cacasses and wrenched out of us the definitive Wimple Winch cover for which this ep became rightly famous. That and the knees up version of Arthur C Clarke of course..."where're the harmonies??"

You're My Loving Way
(Screaming Apple, 1991)

Screaming Apple's follow up 45 saw us head to more local recording facilities. The result was a pleasing combination of garage-pop with Mark's crunching fuzztone tipping the whole thing into dancefloor territory. Back-up vocals were provided by our good chum, Bronco Bullfrog drummer and Toffee Sunday Smash presenter Andy Morten.

Bargain LP (Delerium 1995)

We signed to UFO Records and recorded our only lp in 1993. UFO went bankrupt and left us in the lurch with unpaid studio bills etc. It took 2 years to find a label to release it, Delerium stepped into the breech and released it in 1995.

Buttermilk Boy/Bad Clothes (Detour Records, 1999)

Our last single. We had a lot of fun recording this at Toerag with our old mate Liam Watson. Buttermilk Boy is us doing a Humble Pie turn and Bad Clothes is a mini mini operetta inspired by our Ealing/Acton heroes The Who - gawd bless 'em.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Hayfever Fanzine (June 1995) + Delerium Records publicity blurb

Articles & InterviewsHayfever (1, June 1995)My first meeting with the London-based Aardvarks was of a very intense nature. More by coincidence than purpose I ended up in the underground of Cologne one...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:49:00 GMT