Member Since: 30/01/2006
Band Website: www.inflatablebuddha.co.uk
Band Members: Steve Larkin (winner, Canadian Spoken Word Olympics 2004; co-founder of Oxford's Hammer & Tongue poetry slam): lead vox, octave mandolin, mouth harp & more
Susanna Starling: double bass, vocals and giant carnivorous insects
Richard Brotherton: saxophones, bass clarinet, harmonicas, delta blues guitar, Elvis impersonations
Alex Horwill - Drums & sharp ska suits
Thanks to former members/future gust artists (!we miss you!):
Purple Dave Hart: multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire
Mauro Sanin: hurdy-gurdy & blues harmonica
Rupert Alison: accordion & some-time naked mysticism
Simon Reece: sitar, banjo and beyond
Robin Morris: accordion emergency service
Influences: The spoken word...all tomorrow's parties...all yesterday's parties...(life's just one big party, isn't it?)...what was i saying?...oh yeah...influences too numerous to mention...ramble ramble cough...gypsy folk punk...tuvan/mongolian throat singing and heavy german industrial rock...music hall, bluegrass and english folk...what's that smell?...traditional galician music...oh, it's me...joy division and the incredible string band...white rabbits...rabbit holes. where does it all end?...falls off chair whilst editing myspace page, hits head on radiator, found dead 2 hours later with 'Hot Rod Cowboys' playing on the stereo...yawn...fischerspooner. briefly anyway. bye.
Sounds Like: 'A cross between the Goon Show and the Pixies'...
'An acid-crazed hippie's wet dream'...
'art-punk-folk-poets?'...
only YOU can decide!
Record Label: Norpwing Recordings
Type of Label: Indie