{"id":285,"date":"2010-01-19T00:40:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T23:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=285"},"modified":"2012-09-21T00:24:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T23:24:54","slug":"look-mummy-clowns-toto-records-1984-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/look-mummy-clowns-toto-records-1984-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Mummy Clowns &#8211; Toto Records &#8211; 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/img465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/img466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?3gmcymwbvcy\" target=\"_blank\">Bard Buster<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?e3eiejuafay\" target=\"_blank\">Chuggin In The Ruggin \/ Steppenwolf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/KYPPLMC2_zpsbd0ab190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/KYPPLMC_zps3afc414c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look Mummy Clowns emerged early on in 1982 from the members of\u00a0 The Eratics. Stringy continued to play the\u00a0bass and Snout continued to play the guitar. Roper, The Eratics drummer, moved over to vocal duties\u00a0and the vacant drumming\u00a0position\u00a0was filled\u00a0by ex-Apostle drummer Dan MacIntyre.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966%20stuff\/KYPP846.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The band performed with the likes of Hagar The Womb, Blood And Roses and Flowers In The Dustbin in many of the usual pubs and squats that were available to punk bands\u00a0in and around the London scene at that time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/LookMummyClowns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"544\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A year on in 1983 the band recorded and released a demo which impressed ex-Eratics fan Jumpy who was based in Bolognia amongst the radical squats and book shops that existing in that Italian city. The band travelled over to Bolognia, performed in front of the radical audience and then sometime later in the week, the band\u00a0rush recorded these tracks in a portacabin\u00a0before having to travel to that nights gig in Milan. The travel arrangements to this gig in Milan\u00a0ended in confusion as two members made it and two members ended up somewhere else near by!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/KYPP1046.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The band performed for the last time at the New Merlins Cave pub near Kings Cross in\u00a0June of 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Dan MacIntyre had a thought about about this one and only Look Mummy Clown\u00a07&#8243; release;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;it\u00a0actually came out alright considering it was recorded very quickly in a portacabin in Bologna using a small mobile studio. This was during a tour of Italy in 1983 organised by Jumpy from\u00a0RAF punk record label Attack\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/pengy1966%20stuff\/KYPP844.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interesting article written by Tom\u00a0Vague in August 1984 for Zig Zag magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/i208.photobucket.com\/albums\/bb227\/killyourpetpuppy\/Zig%20Zag%20magazine\/img758.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/i208.photobucket.com\/albums\/bb227\/killyourpetpuppy\/Zig%20Zag%20magazine\/img759.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i208.photobucket.com\/albums\/bb227\/killyourpetpuppy\/Puppies%20and%20their%20friends\/DanreadingKypp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"653\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many happy returns to Dan MacIntyre whose birthday it is today. Hoping you and yours are having a nice day\u00a0down on the south coast.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jim Wafford for the lend of this release and to Dan for the flyers and\u00a0for supplying\u00a0the demo track\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?ejnngtnjnm3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&#8216;White Horses&#8217;<\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0a song that was\u00a0mentioned in the comments after this post was completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bard Buster Chuggin In The Ruggin \/ Steppenwolf Look Mummy Clowns emerged early on in 1982 from the members of\u00a0 The Eratics. Stringy continued to play the\u00a0bass and Snout continued to play the guitar. Roper, The Eratics drummer, moved over to vocal duties\u00a0and the vacant drumming\u00a0position\u00a0was filled\u00a0by ex-Apostle drummer Dan MacIntyre. The band performed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6484,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/6484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}