Artist description Two of them are tall and dark, the other is short with long hair, one of them had blue eyes I think......

Music Style Progressive Rock in a Finnish style is one description, however it is perhaps better to describe them as the band that energised a generation and acted as a catalyst for changing the whole sound of popular and progressive rock music in the Western Hemisphere.

Musical Influences The World of Steam, Alcohol, Monty Norman, The Heavy Metal Rape & Pillage Merchants live at FGS 81.

Similar Artists Finland's 'Sheep Kills Monkey' & 'Land of the Pandas', Norway's 'Flange Asylum' & 'The Heavy Metal Rape and Pillage Merchants'.

Artist History Never really followed it much after the third year at school, but remember some stuff about Mesopotamia, the Fertile Crescent, Sanscrit, cuniform, that kind of thing. Oh! And the Hanging Gardens of Rotherham, Pyramids, Beserkers, Danegeld, Agincourt. I think we were all much better at science really but I dont see the relelvance really.

Group Members Andy Rothwell - guitars, b.vox Allan May - vox, guitars Steve Crewe - drums, synths, b.vox

Albums The Day of the Budgie (1981), Beautiful Ballads (1980), The Evil Pigs volume one (1977)

Press Reviews What people have said about The Day of the Budgie NME: Rubbish! The Sunday Times: More like Evil Pigshit! Kerrannnng: Dysfunctional, psychologically unbalanced, antipodean, serial cat killing, apocalyptic bird concept rates highly against the best efforts from Finlands prog rock scene. Cat lover magazine: Not too happy with this one. The Clitheroe Bugle: The most thought provoking work from the bands catalogue and sadly their last, although it is rumoured further material was recorded in 83 but the tapes got left on a bus or a train or something. The albums concept is familiar; boy meets girl, the girl is killed, the boy exacts revenge, world ends or something like that. For me the standout tracks have to be Catkiller, Bullworker Budgie and Armageddon. The first is the bands finest hour. The sheer force of the vocal delivery really is quite remarkable, one could actually imagine a cat being killed by this track if it was in a small locked room with no air or food and with a 100 kilowatt sound system playing this track over and over again for about 12 weeks. What can I say about Bullworker Budgie that hasn't been said already? A work of a genius although cruelly some reviewers have said that it is merely a re-hash of the old classic Mr.Bellings and that at the time of writing DOTB the band had ran out ideas and reached their creative nadir. I think if the band were here today they would vigorously and vociferously say that this was perfectly true. In Armageddon we have a song with two chords and a lot of black notes. Lyrically it is the zenith, the very apogee of the bands achievement with the exception of Mr. Bellings of course and perhaps the line 'If I see her I will kick her knickers off', actually Na Ne Na Na Na isn't bad, except for the title which is astonishingly piss poor, anyway. Kristie Stevie Crewe: Scary Daddy! Chris Twiss: How much longer is this thing going to take? Q Magazine: We have to listen to some shit here, and this is some of it! Fierce Bird Magazine: A seminal work! A classic! Sweeping pastoral melodies, Rock out, Avante Garde through to that two chord prog rock bollocks at the end. Makes the 'Bright Side of your Balloon' sound wank!

Location Bolton, Greater Manchester - United Kingdom

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