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Dave is the one that keeps things steady through the set.....sort of. His steady playing allows the rest of the band to go off on whatever tangent they choose and normally get back just in time for the end of the song! Dave likes to make wine, and make more wine, then even more wine. He can nearly make enough to keep up wi th his own consumption!!
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Tosh plays guitar and sings. Tosh leads the band and keeps them all in order.........for a while anyway.
He can play more songs than you could shake a stick at. Tosh makes (and eats) cakes for a living and looks forward to going to work every day so he can stuff his face with chopped nuts, marzipan, glace cherries etc. He ought to be the size of a house but he's managed to keep slim. Most of his hair has fallen out and he now sports a solar panel the size of a saucer.
Tosh is truly, madly, deeply in love. He's got a banner across the window of his car 'Tosh + Lara Croft 4 ever'!
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Wally plays the Jug, Whistle, vocals (well he tries!!). Has also been known to strum a chord or two on the guitar. Wally's main roles in the Jug band are blowing the jug, the penny whistle, singing and shouting. He's a good shouter! The singing's crap! He is also the one that spouts most of the banter (bullshit to most!)
Wally has built many bikes in the past and apart from sitting on a riverbank with his tackle in his hand, trying to catch an old trout, this is his main pastime.
Drinking lots also features greatly in Wally's life and he often amazes people at gigs by falling arse over tit with a pint of Strongbow in his hand and never spilling a drop. In fact Wally IS Cider Man!!!
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Horace, or better known as 'H', used to moonlights in the kiddies band Steps on weekends. With the demise of Steps he was looking for alternative employment - The Jug Band decided to take him in. Also known as the Pillow Biting, Fudge Packing, Chutney Ferret. Horace plays Kazoo, Bodran, singing and shouting (another good shouter!).
Horace rides A 750cc Triumph Bonneville which he has totally rebuilt himself. It runs like a bag of shit! But don't tell him that, he'd throw a little tantrum and stamp his feet!
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Mez is about six and a half feet tall and weighs about four stone, soaking wet! He auditioned for 'The Full Monty' but had complaints from the starving people of the world. Mez plays lead guitar and he's very good too - if you can hear above the feed-back. He's another one who likes to spend time sat on a riverbank with his tackle in his hand and a bottle of beer or Jack Daniels and a smoke in the other.
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Simon plays the 'Stereo Washboard'. This amazing device is made from the metal frame of an old rucksack. Two washboards are fixed to the frame along with various attachments (these vary from gig to gig. It depends on how quickly he breaks them.). Simon's got an old Triumph chopper we believe. Not the safest bike to ride, although he says it's better now that it's got a brake that works. Simon provides stunning visual and audible presence to any gig and we are all chuffed to bits to have him with us.
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Rita, oh Rita! Rita is our 'Man Behind the Piano'. She plays a little organ but she's built like a Baby Grande! When Rita shakes her maracas it is truly a joy to behold!
Rita doesn't ride a bike herself but she rides a boyfriend who does!
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Jay is our drummer so he says. We couldn't afford a drum machine. As a few lines in Mama Don't Want go...........'When Jay plays the drums he's off his head. He sounds just like he's building a shed' . Well that's Jay all right.
If you try to imagine a train thundering down the railway line, briefly coming off the tracks, hitting a few cars and buildings and another train, then carrying on down the track as if nothing ever happened, then your getting close. We're going to steal his drums and sell them. He can then take his proper place in the band - sat in the corner with a Pringles tin !
People say that Jay looks such a misery when he's playing. That is simply not true - He' s like it all the time!
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Ian provides a real 'Ye Ha!' to our music with his fast fiddle and mandolin. We don't know a lot about Ian, not even his second name, so we call him Ian Fiddler. All we know is that he lives near Newport and has got a tidy missus! Rock On Ian!
So, there you have it!
That' s 'THE JUG BAND'.
The Jug Band is a band that is going forward in no particular direction and backwards in both. They are the only band to give you stereo washboards. So, if you like your bands a bit rough around the edges (to say the least), not even the tiniest bit politically correct. A bit rude and a bloody good laugh then come and see us.
P.S. Have a few beers first............... We always do!
P.P.S. All members of the band are also members of the Special Olympics - Formation Drinking Team
