Member Since: 2/19/2006
Band Members: Stanley Forbes on guitar and vocals
Hillery Clinton on sax
Doctor Doom on banjo
Giant Haystacks on drums
Carl Marks on lead jazz guitar
Jonathan Roth on jazz piano
Al Kyeda on surf slide guitar
Jazzin' Dave on double bass
Ann Robinson on violin and orgasms
Influences: Noel Coward
Luminous Colours
Jake Thackray
Tom Lehrer
John Shuttleworth
Leonard Cohen
Shaw Bros movies
Humanity’s impending destruction
Neil Innes
Vivien Stanshall
Frank Zappa
David Axelrod
Homer & Jethro
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
The Bones of Davey jones
Velofax
Roy Orbison
Johnny Cash
Pete Roe
Jake Manion
Steve Hawker
Pies
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Sloth from The Goonies
Sounds Like:
LIVE AT VILLAGE GREEN RECORDS, INDIANA, USA, AUGUST 2007
"Strange" - Venue Magazine
"Wasn't that thrilled with Stanley Forbes, to be honest" - Smokehand
"Stanley's band seemed to be made up of celebs" - Cubelog
"Vaguely amusing" - Ruth Revell, Choke Forum
"Smutty, filthy, potty-mouthed...the gag reflex was in full throttle" - New Burlesque Times
"Who is the tall guy on sax?" Julian, Acoustic Night blog
"Bristol's finest dandy" - Hay Fringe Festival 2006
"He's completely brilliant and we've fallen in love with the music that he makes" - BBC Bristol Uncovered, 1st July 2007.
"Fantastic" - nowt2do.com
"One of the most dextrous tongues outside the Jazz and internet porn scenes" - Shane Chokey on splashtone.com
"Amazing stuff. I am in awe really. I don't know what to say and that's unusual for me" - The Celery of Death
"UNMISSABLE" - Gimme Shelter!
"Continues a long tradition of political satire and dissent in pop music from the likes of Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, James Brown, Billy Bragg, Public Enemy, The Clash. The views expressed in this song are of course not those of the BBC, or its employees - perish the thought" BBC 6Music before playing "Those Dastardly Iraqis"
Record Label: Lovenuts
Type of Label: None