Artist description RATWURST is Pete and Drew. Pete sings most of the time and plays a few instruments while Drew plays most of the instruments and sings a bit. On stage the band is just Peter and Drew playing guitars, keyboards, drums machines augmented by tape and smoke machines and the occasional electric drill for the sacrificing of the favourite record album. Dark glasses, suit jackets and a bit of make-up.

Music Style Rock and pop but also german folk tunes, spoken word, outright noise, silly dittys, dueling sitars, minimalist lyrics, all capped off by sound effects and sound pictures.

Musical Influences Suicide, Nash the Slash, The Normal

Similar Artists The Normal, Nash the Slash, Suicide, Ween?

Artist History RATWURST has existed since the mid 90s. They have a 16 song CD featuring a cover of Thelonius Monster’s Sammy Hagar Weekend. RATWURST’s Car Kill is also featured on the In-Out-Thru Volume One compilation. Pete and Drew are former members of Drums Along The Gardiner. Their output was a single Fish/’75 and a 12 song cassette album called Boronto featuring "Beergut". That song is also found on the compilation CD Beam 103-Writings On The Wall. The Drums were also featured on a number of recordings released by a London fanzine called Whatwave. Currently, Drew also plays guitar in the Pretty Ugly.

Group Members RATWURST is Pete and Drew.

Instruments Pete and Drew play guitars, keyboards, drums machines augmented by tape and smoke machines and the occasional electric drill, etc.

Albums Ratwurst

Press Reviews http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_03.25.99/music/ondisc.html

Additional Info CD available at website

Location P.O. Box 6994, Stn A, Toronto, Ontario - Canada

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