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About Me

Support the Junction!
The Junction, our most-played venue, is trying to help keep its monetary head above the financial waters by selling compilation CDs. Mustard Allegro have contributed a track, the German-language version of Great White, featuring Rahoki on guest vocals. It's called Grosser Weisser (spelt wrong on the CD cover, but that's DIY for you), and you can't get it anywhere else. The album's called DisJunction, and there are 20 top tunes on there, by artists including S J Esau , You And The Atom Bomb , Team Brick , White Trash Ambition , and those it says on the banner down there.
myspace.com/thejunctionbristol

Mustard Allegro formed in January 2006, so don't expect much of a back-story. For the benefit of international readers, we should explain that the Allegro was an iconically awful British car of the 1970s, and particularly so in the colour officially called 'harvest gold' or some such guff.

Some of our track titles:

Bradley's New Shoes Our Finances are in Ruin, Let's Go to the Casino Guns at Dawn, Spats to Pawn The Italian Catering Incident At the Mount of the Chocolate Fountain, At the Fount of the Chocolate Mountain (Hyperdrive!) Summer of Monkey / Pheasants' Revolt For Once I Was Not Being Sarcastic
We have a website, at mustardallegro.co.uk . There might be a hidden MP3 there or something.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 07/02/2006
Band Website: www.mustardallegro.co.uk
Band Members: Mike: Bang
Hugh: Boom
Alex: Twang
Influences: Ford Timelord, KITT, Morris Minor and the Majors, Dick Dale, Link Wray, Man Or Astroman?, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Phono Comb, Atomic 7, Pixies, Reverend Horton Heat, Laika and the Cosmonauts, Eddie Angel, The Panasonics, The Fall, The Shadows, The Ventures, The Zombies, The Tornadoes, The Astronauts, The Upsetters, The Cramps, The Bambi Molesters, The Ghastly Ones, The V.Cs, Slint, Sonic Youth, Tortoise, Ivory Springer, Gravenhurst, Kraftwerk, Add N To (X), The Residents, Shellac, Blues Explosion, Fantomas, Marc Ribot, Joe Meek, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Sculpture, FUD
Sounds Like:

"Mustard Allegro are not from California. Perhaps, then, the office blocks, docks and cranes of their native Bristol explain the angular portwards list of their peculiar brand of Surf music. The sense of humour is certainly British: named after an iconically awful 1970s car, and sporting track titles like 'At the Mount of the Chocolate Fountain, At the Fount of the Chocolate Mountain (Hyperdrive!)', the Mustards inhabit a world in which King Crimson write energetic two-minute micro-epics with Joe Meek at the controls, then dash down to the beach, boards in arms, only to find half a mile of mud between them and the Severn Estuary."

For fans of:
Dick Dale, Link Wray, Man Or Astroman?, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Phono Comb, Pixies, Reverend Horton Heat, Laika and the Cosmonauts, Eddie Angel, The Panasonics, The Fall, The Shadows, The Ventures, The Zombies, The Tornadoes, The Astronauts, The Upsetters, The Cramps, The Bambi Molesters, The Ghastly Ones, The V.Cs, Slint, Sonic Youth, Tortoise, Ivory Springer, Gravenhurst, Kraftwerk, Shellac, Blues Explosion, Fantomas, Marc Ribot, Joe Meek, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Sculpture, FUD...

Record Label: Diabetic Horse Records / Fact Fans
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Shout Outs

Ok i am writing this as i feel that over the 3 years we have been around many people have assisted Mustard Allegro and need to be credited for there help. Maz deserves many thanks for s...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:30:00 GMT

2008 - Alex Buys Tremolo Arm for his Guitar

After Years of doing without a Tremolo arm Alex has finally bought one for his strat.
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:45:00 GMT

Some photos again

Gimme Shelter, 9th February 2007Thanks to Delphine Horsley for taking those photos.
Posted by on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:18:00 GMT

Mustard Allegro on the radio!

Mustard Allegro were featured on Radio Bristol's new local music show, Fine Tuned, last night. Apparently our next gig got a mention, as well as the Junction CD to which we donated a track. Only a sni...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:24:00 GMT

Exclusive MA track on the Madvent Calendar

The Third Madvent Chokalendar is a virtual advent calendar, with a tasty MP3 instead of a chocolate behind each door. And one of the tracks is by Mustard Allegro (with some of our friends). It's about...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:11:00 GMT

Video Evidence

'Bristol's Favourite Sleazeball', and our DJ at last night's gig, Richie Paradise, filmed some snippets of our performance. He's put them up on Youtube, the cheeky scamp.The Italian Catering Incident:...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 16:44:00 GMT

Gig Photos

We played a gig, and we ate noodles. Thanks for coming down, if you did. If not, we have some more shows booked - see that thing that tells you when the shows are. It's all very exciting. Photos, then...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:01:00 GMT

Pre-gig thoughts

Listening to our recording of Screamer again, it seems a bit slow. We've been practising, and it's now ultra-rocketspeed. Or something.I'm in two minds whether to get my bass set up. There's a buzz on...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 03:52:00 GMT

Great White: new version for download

We've uploaded the full version of Great White, with slightly crisper drums and... a kids' choir. Yes, a class of small children now appear on the song. Hope you enjoy it that little bit more now. It'...
Posted by on Tue, 16 May 2006 16:26:00 GMT

Recording Session

This weekend, we've been recording. We commandeered a factory in Clevedon, borrowed a sound engineer, the lovely Mark Tanner, and laid down four or five tracks. They're not properly mixed yet, but the...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:11:00 GMT