The Bongoleeros, live performances & films DVD
Turgid Animal Records , 2007
All in a day's work for a pair of fairground hustlers. The Bongoleeros' performances are powered by friction and Birthday Celebrations are like adding a pair of nylon hotpants into the mix. The more friction you can rub up, the more Remedial Ecstasy is going to rain down. The Tonkin Honkin Hank gig was a birthday celebration as well, must be something to do with the cheap whiskey, cigars and celebrating poppin out your Mamma's fanny.All our performances involve us coming at you, some by stealthy peepin n creepin, others by riding wild pit ponies bareback. The Fenton gig was definitely a run away horse performance. The PA had blown before we went on, we cobbled together all our cables into the two sockets of my ancient amp, but the delay increased the agitation levels all round.Things were getting out of hand at one stage, so I had to take off my belt and do a bit of disciplining. There was this one guy stood on the stage facing the audience trying to soak up all the remedial ecstasy for himself, greedy little imp. Never turn your back on a dangerous situation they taught me in the army. The fool. Before he knew it, I had him in a headlock, moving backwards, spilling his vino all over his leisure wear. Sir Charles downed his wine and smashed his glass before we let him go.Amazingly, despite the masonry and glasses flying around the place we were completely unscathed. We made a real effort on the health and safety front by getting unglazed plates from a professional plate-spinner from Pitchly, West Yorkshire. Last time we almost blinded somebody.There's usually one of two reactions at our gigs, either you laugh like a fool or you get agitated by the goings on.
The Fat Arse Report
Alcoholic Narcolepsy, 2006
Hot Pants of The Spirit World
Jelle Crama CD, Belgium 2006
Limited to 100 copies with artwork from Jelle Crama himself
Protuberance, Compilation
BT Recordings, C90 cassette 2005
Tonkin Honkin Hank, Live from the Spirit World
A spiritualist communion with Hank Williams featuring special guests Milovan Srdenovic (Smell & Quim) and Mike Flower (Vibracathedral
Orchestra)
Self released CDR, 2005
Exit Zero, Compilation
Dead Mind Records CD, 2004
Skullface and Doggin' live at Denton Res
Split CDR with Fckn'Bstrds, Holland 2004
Creeping, Crawling, Screams of the Undertaker
Live in Newcastle, also featuring Filthy Turd and Romance
Voltagestress*r CDR, 2004
Not easy to find the right words for 41 minutes of noise. Filthy Turd and Romance sounds like a nuclear storm or like a monster modem. So only noise...instruments? I don´t believe this. Bongoleeros play music without any rythm:-) and with not normal instruments. Live recorded in mum´s kitchen?:-) No but in Newcastle in England 2004.
Only for friends of disaster because this is too crazy for all other. Are you hard enough?
PS: for a better describe for this music go to the offical homepage of Voltagestress.
h.ORSEc.OCK-666.1: V/A: A HUNG LIKE A HORSE?! COMPILATION CDR VOL.1
W/ LUASA RAELON, POP CULTURE RAPE VICTIM, REALICIDE, BONGOLEEROS, KEYBOARD MASTERS, THE CHERRY POINT, TWODEADSLUTS ONEGOODFUCK, ESCAPIST, MAIM, 16 BITCH PILE UP, SIXES, 2673, KNIFE CITY, ROESING APE, AGIT8, JASON ZEH, OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN, YES COLLAPSE, ROXANNE JEAN POLISE, MIKE SHIFLET, GRAHAM MOORE, NKONDI, & WETHER
Remedial Ecstasy
featuring Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations)
Self released CDR, 2004
It doesn't come as a surprise, then, that Remedial Ecstasy's twenty one tracks sound like damaged ethnological tapes of some future race's religious rites involving ten squealing pigs and an oscillation kit. That's a good thing -- while it's crusty, antagonistic and mean-spirited on first listen, the disc isn't a dry academic exercise or a struggle through incompetent jams, but a tinny collection of spirited noise-punches that lay on the experimentalism thick without losing any fervor in the process. "Demagnetise Your Brains" makes its stock-footage-meets-free-improv point in just under two minutes, mixing crowd sounds, cheap tape manipulations and who-knows-what-else in a stuttering free-for-all that sets the reckless pace and crooked atmosphere for the rest of the album. Both "Fighting Talk" and "Nerve Scales" turn in temporally unaltered jams that last just over a minute; the first is loose, electric, and punky, and the second wheezes along to out-of-tune pump organs and a thudding Kraut beat. At any other point on the album, the Bongoleeros can be heard kicking trash cans ("The Coconut Lady Sings"), howling deliriously ("Marked by the Stain of Bogo"), shredding their own sound with rudimentary tape manipulations ("Wrong Is Right") or heckling a live audience with "Bogo"-preaching anti-statements ("Greatest Balls of Fire"). But wherever they are, you can be sure they're not stiff or pretentious; in spirit, the Leeds, UK-based Bongoleeros reflect their free-folk brethren across the Atlantic in terms of laid-back passion. At the same time, none of the tracks on Remedial Ecstasy are alien to ideas of thick texture and complex execution -- enough is going on here to give fans of Wolf Eyes or early Komische a pretty decent headphone workout. Splendid
Ape of Junk
Self released CDR, 100 copies, 2001
featuring Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations)
oTo tape 49
Fencing Flatworm Records, 2001
Cassette, 50 copies
The Bongoleeros's first Feature Film
The Tale of Peepin Tom Bogal
A fairground clairvoyant narrates the tale of PEEPIN TOM BOGAL's search for smut and how it all goes terribly wrong when the God ODAL shows up. PEEPIN TOM has to summon help in the shape of mystic BOGO YOGO from his teepee in Pitchly, West Yorkshire. The subsequent chase scene determines who gets to look at the HOT PANTS and who will be drowned in the LAKE.
Featuring Sir Charles Bascomb as Peepin Tom Bogal, The Major as Bogo Yogo and GOD ODAL as himself. Music by The Bongoleeros.
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