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The Bonkers

Slave frog ... make me cups of tea..

About Me

The Bonkers formed in 2004 after drinking lots of Devon Cider....
Joe and Bex are from Rotherham, England. We wrote a few silly songs about cheese and nipples..
Lots of things that probably made sense at the time...
Anyway.. we recorded some stuff.. and then people asked us to do gigs. We always manage to provide a silly, shambolic kind of entertainment. Live .. there's just Joe on guitar and Becky on flute. Sometime's there's kazoo.. twanger.. whistles and a dancing doll called Stripey Jane. It's great !
First album was released in September 05. The 2nd one is done.. just needs some final mixing, etc..
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"SPILLING THINGS AND FALLING OVER" album 2005
Available for £4. Plus 50p P+P - click on the PayPal button below -
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..PThanks to OurSteven, you can see a video of our Under The Boardwalk gig -
http://www.youtube.com/user/oursteven

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I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6 !

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/18/2006
Band Website: the-bonkers.co.uk
Band Members: Joe - guitar, vocals, wheelie bin, keyboard, twanger, etc

Becky - flute, vocals, bodhrán, kazoo, sandwich dragon

Influences: Cheese, cider, rum, badgers, badges, beer... and every band we've ever listened to.
Sounds Like: "Edward Lear at a party with Rod, Jane & Freddy"
Record Label: Grated Cheese Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Finished recording 2nd album

Various news - 1. We've now done 12 tracks for "Sausage Galore" (our 2nd album) now. So that's it... Just needs mixing a bit... and a cover... Give us a month or two ! 2. We were on the cover of Sand...
Posted by The Bonkers on Tue, 06 May 2008 01:02:00 PST

Album update

Right.. it’s almost 2 years since we started recording The Bonkers album 2 - and most of the past 12 months has seen absolutely no work take place at all. Luckily, some inspirational tortilla wr...
Posted by The Bonkers on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:15:00 PST

Bingo Trousers and more..

For the benefit of the few people in the world that don't have our old album...I've put a couple more tracks up on The Bonkers MyspaceNamely "Tiny Bonker And The Sandwich Dragon" - a very obvious trib...
Posted by The Bonkers on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:05:00 PST

Videos of UTB Gig

Thanks to OurSteven, you can see a video of our Under The Boardwalk gig - http://www.youtube.com/user/oursteven     ...
Posted by The Bonkers on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:10:00 PST

No Gig

..> Long story.. but there's no Red House gig happening tonight.It will be rescheduled for later in the year. But we do have a gig in a couple of weeks at The Grapes, Sheffield. Sat 26th May Us ...
Posted by The Bonkers on Mon, 14 May 2007 10:17:00 PST

www.the-bonkers.co.uk

Hi - i've quickly re-built the website due to a computer problem...There's no PayPay buttons on there - but you can now buy the album from a button on our MySpace page..In many ways it's an imporvemen...
Posted by The Bonkers on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:37:00 PST

Review - most entertaining in a Stackridge sort of way

"Classic Rock Society" magazine printed this about our gig with Rose Kemp "As for The Bonkers, a combination of incredibly tall ponytailed guy and incredibly small flautist, singing ditties about frog...
Posted by The Bonkers on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:29:00 PST

Our Halloween Gig

We managed to entertain the good people of West St Live on 29th Oct with - The Bear SongStripey JaneBuffy Theme(on kazoo & flute) / I've Got a Theory (from Buffy)Listen To LuMake A Monster (By Rod Jan...
Posted by The Bonkers on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:06:00 PST

5 and a half songs done

The new album - "Sausage Galore" is progreesing nicely. Our latest efforts are - "Slave Frog" - inspired by our walk home one night and "The Bear Song" written by Pete Bowler.In other news Rose Kemp s...
Posted by The Bonkers on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:05:00 PST

Bonkers back in the studio

The Bonkers resumed their recording career yesterday by completing the 2nd track form the 2nd album."It's now ages since we recorded David Ashley's Porn Dungeon In The Sky, (1st April 2006) and now we...
Posted by The Bonkers on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:43:00 PST