The Display Team
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The Display Team are a six-piece independent pronk
band from southeast London
, UK
. According to Orange unsignedAct
the group "has appealed to legions of brave ears, enabling the band to tour the UK and Europe several times, at clubs, pubs and festivals of every size." The Display Team has received airplay in the UK on BBC6 and Phoenix FM
, along with many shows podcast
by DJs on Kooba Radio
which is heard worldwide on the Internet.
and voice), Chuckles The Clown (drums and voice), Jimb (lead guitar
and voice), Oz (bass guitar
and voice), Mickey Bones (trombone
and voice) and T-Cass (trumpet
and voice). This personnel recorded the album, Drones, in mid-2008 which was released on the Genin label - home of Djevara
, Elephant Vs Leopard, Thumpermonkey Lives! Claypigeon, Frowser and Pigshakle - on the 1st of February 2010.
Due to his commitments elsewhere, T-Cass left in early 2010 to play in alt-rock band "They Came From Japan", and was replaced by Samwise, formerly of ska-punk band "The Lovespuds" at the end of April.
Their music borrows from rock
, ska
, punk
, funk
, doo-wop
, swing, hardcore
and metal
.
The Display Team's recordings have been played on BBC 6 Music
by Tom Robinson
along with Phoenix FM
and Kooba Radio
. With other bands their contribution to the CD compilation Un-Scene 4 was noted by Rock Sound
music magazine as deserving of "an honourable mention."
The group tours the UK and throughout Europe and has appeared on the BBC introducing
stage at Rhythms of The World
festival, Wasted Festival and Big Rivers Festival in the Czech Republic alongside bands such as Mad Caddies
. Under their previous moniker Mumrah they played Uxfest
in 2004 and 2006.
The Display Team's music has been influenced by "a wide range of pilferable sources, including Frank Zappa
, Cardiacs
, Mr. Bungle
, Queen
and a selection of punk and ska bands too numerous (and sometimes obscure) to single out by name." The band themselves also cite Mad Caddies
, Madness
, Reel Big Fish
, Goldfinger
, The Specials
and The Beach Boys
.
Past members
(Double EP)
Re-released on Riot 2006
Track List:
1. The Toilet
2. Do One
3. RoboChap Vs. Party Boy
4. Floggin' A Dead Horse
Bonus tracks!
(“Six Hot Nubbins with the Good Time Gubbins” EP)
5. Gloi Polloi
6. You've Got A Great Future (Behind You)
7. Whinge Binge
8. Big Cheese & Hungry Mice
Released on Genin Records 2010
Track List:
1. Worry Sponge
2. Gnaw The Iron Paw
3. Norwegian Honey
4. Check-Up (from the neck up)
5. Irksome Treasurer
6. Body-Renting
7. Karma's Gonna Get You (filthy scum)
8. Pitfalls of Politeness
9. Wring Wrong
10.A pathetic Pill
11.Conjunctivitis
12.A Letter To Russia
Track List:
1. Worry Sponge
2. I Smell Like An Old Man
Pronk
Pronk may refer to:* Pronking, or "stotting", a behavior of gazelles involving leaping straight up during pursuit by a predatorMusic* An alternative name for Progressive punkPeople* Travis Hafner, a baseball player with that nickname...
band from southeast London
London
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, UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. According to Orange unsignedAct
Orange UK
Orange is a mobile network operator and internet service provider in the United Kingdom, which launched in 1994. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was purchased by France Télécom in 2000, which then adopted the Orange brand for all its other mobile communications activities...
the group "has appealed to legions of brave ears, enabling the band to tour the UK and Europe several times, at clubs, pubs and festivals of every size." The Display Team has received airplay in the UK on BBC6 and Phoenix FM
Phoenix FM
Phoenix FM is a community radio station serving the areas of Brentwood and Billericay, England. It was formed in 1996 and has broadcast twelve 28-day restricted service licence broadcasts on FM. The station's presenters include local snooker hero Steve Davis, Boxer Rebellion drummer Piers Hewitt,...
, along with many shows podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
by DJs on Kooba Radio
Kooba Radio
Kooba Radio is an independent, non-profit, Internet-based radio station focused on alternative rock, playing unsigned bands and artists with independent record labels. Kooba is PRS registered and plays to a listenership in over 20 countries. Created 21 December 2002, Kooba Radio began its life in...
which is heard worldwide on the Internet.
History
Begun in 2000, the band was known as Mumrah until 2006. The original members were Iain MacKenzie (rhythm guitar), Jimb (guitar), Chuckles the Clown (drums and voice), Greg Cruse (bass) and DJ Implant (voice and turntables). This incarnation was short-lived and Implant and Cruse left the band; Iain MacFrenzy assumed the position of lead vocalist and Nixo (bass) became a full-time member. The band expanded to include Mickey Bones (trombone, voice) and Tiny Tommy Toot-Fruit (Arif Driessen, trumpet and voice, now of UK/US ambient rock band *Shels). Toot Fruit left the band in 2008 to be replaced by T-Cass (trumpet, voice). The line-up at that time consisted of Iain MacFrenzy (rhythm guitarGuitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
and voice), Chuckles The Clown (drums and voice), Jimb (lead guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
and voice), Oz (bass guitar
Electric Bass
Electric bass can mean:*Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass*Electric bass guitar*Bass synthesizer*Big Mouth Billy Bass, a battery-powered singing fish...
and voice), Mickey Bones (trombone
Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
and voice) and T-Cass (trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
and voice). This personnel recorded the album, Drones, in mid-2008 which was released on the Genin label - home of Djevara
Djevara
Djevara is a multicultural hardcore punk/alternative metal band, based in North London but originally formed in University of Warwick. It started when Bass decided to start a punk rock band on joining university, in the form of the self-depreciatingly named 'Suck' as all the musicians were novices...
, Elephant Vs Leopard, Thumpermonkey Lives! Claypigeon, Frowser and Pigshakle - on the 1st of February 2010.
Due to his commitments elsewhere, T-Cass left in early 2010 to play in alt-rock band "They Came From Japan", and was replaced by Samwise, formerly of ska-punk band "The Lovespuds" at the end of April.
Their music borrows from rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
, ska
Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
, punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
, funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
, doo-wop
Doo-wop
The name Doo-wop is given to a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music that developed in African American communities in the 1940s and achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. It emerged from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and...
, swing, hardcore
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...
and metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
.
The Display Team's recordings have been played on BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music is one of the BBC's digital radio stations, was launched on 11 March 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y. It was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years....
by Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson is an English singer-songwriter, bassist and radio presenter, better known for the hits "Glad to Be Gay", "2-4-6-8 Motorway", and "Don't Take No for an Answer", with his Tom Robinson Band...
along with Phoenix FM
Phoenix FM
Phoenix FM is a community radio station serving the areas of Brentwood and Billericay, England. It was formed in 1996 and has broadcast twelve 28-day restricted service licence broadcasts on FM. The station's presenters include local snooker hero Steve Davis, Boxer Rebellion drummer Piers Hewitt,...
and Kooba Radio
Kooba Radio
Kooba Radio is an independent, non-profit, Internet-based radio station focused on alternative rock, playing unsigned bands and artists with independent record labels. Kooba is PRS registered and plays to a listenership in over 20 countries. Created 21 December 2002, Kooba Radio began its life in...
. With other bands their contribution to the CD compilation Un-Scene 4 was noted by Rock Sound
Rock Sound
Rock Sound is a British magazine which champions rock music. The magazine aims at being more "underground" and less commercial, whilst also giving coverage to more well known acts.-History:...
music magazine as deserving of "an honourable mention."
The group tours the UK and throughout Europe and has appeared on the BBC introducing
BBC Introducing
BBC Introducing is the brand for new music programmes across the BBC radio stations, showcasing unsigned, self signed and other emerging musical talent primarily from the UK. Launched in 2007 the Introducing brand brings programming from across the BBC under a unified brand with each show retaining...
stage at Rhythms of The World
Rhythms of The World
Rhythms of The World was first organised in 1992. ROTW is a concert which celebrates the culture and art which is expressed through all types of music and art...
festival, Wasted Festival and Big Rivers Festival in the Czech Republic alongside bands such as Mad Caddies
Mad Caddies
The Mad Caddies are a third wave ska band from Solvang, California. The band formed in 1995 and has released five full-length albums, one live album, and two EPs...
. Under their previous moniker Mumrah they played Uxfest
Uxfest
The Uxfest was a festival than was held in Uxbridge, England from 1997 to 2004 and then in Islington, London, England in 2006. It was a charity festival run by the local youth community for which the bands received no payment for performing...
in 2004 and 2006.
The Display Team's music has been influenced by "a wide range of pilferable sources, including Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
, Cardiacs
Cardiacs
Cardiacs are an English alternative rock/psychedelic pop band formed in 1977 and led by Tim Smith. Noted for their complex, varied and intense compositional style and for their eccentric, theatrical stage shows, they have been hailed as an influence by bands as diverse as Blur, Faith No More and...
, Mr. Bungle
Mr. Bungle
Mr. Bungle was an experimental band from Northern California. The band was formed in 1985 while the members were still in high school and was named after a children's educational film. Mr. Bungle released four demo tapes in the mid to late 1980s before being signed to Warner Bros. Records and...
, Queen
Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
and a selection of punk and ska bands too numerous (and sometimes obscure) to single out by name." The band themselves also cite Mad Caddies
Mad Caddies
The Mad Caddies are a third wave ska band from Solvang, California. The band formed in 1995 and has released five full-length albums, one live album, and two EPs...
, Madness
Madness (band)
In 1979, the band recorded the Lee Thompson composition "The Prince". The song, like the band's name, paid homage to their idol, Prince Buster. The song was released through 2 Tone Records, the label of The Specials founder Jerry Dammers. The song was a surprise hit, peaking in the UK music charts...
, Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish
Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out". The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold certified album Turn the Radio Off. Soon after, the band...
, Goldfinger
Goldfinger (band)
Goldfinger is a Los Angeles pop punk/ska punk band that formed in 1994. Currently, the band is composed of vocalist/guitarist John Feldmann, guitarist Charlie Paulson, bassist Kelly LeMieux, and drummer Darrin Pfeiffer...
, The Specials
The Specials
The Specials are an English 2 Tone ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England. Their music combines a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude", and had a "more focused and informed political and social stance" than other ska groups...
and The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
.
Band Members
Current members- Chuckles The Clown - Vocals, Drums (2000–Present)
- Mackenzie - Vocals, Guitar (2000–Present)
- Jimb - Guitar, Vocals (2000–Present)
- Mickey Bones - (2003–Present)
- Ozrick - (2007–Present)
- Samwise -(2010–Present)
Past members
- Greg Cruse - Bass (2000)
- DJ Implant - Vocals, Turntables (2000)
- Tiny Tommy Toot-Fruit - Trumpet, Vocals (2003–2008)
- T-Cass - Trumpet, Vocals (2008–2010)
Huzzah!
(As Mumrah)(Double EP)
Re-released on Riot 2006
Track List:
1. The Toilet
2. Do One
3. RoboChap Vs. Party Boy
4. Floggin' A Dead Horse
Bonus tracks!
(“Six Hot Nubbins with the Good Time Gubbins” EP)
5. Gloi Polloi
6. You've Got A Great Future (Behind You)
7. Whinge Binge
8. Big Cheese & Hungry Mice
Drones
Official Debut AlbumReleased on Genin Records 2010
Track List:
1. Worry Sponge
2. Gnaw The Iron Paw
3. Norwegian Honey
4. Check-Up (from the neck up)
5. Irksome Treasurer
6. Body-Renting
7. Karma's Gonna Get You (filthy scum)
8. Pitfalls of Politeness
9. Wring Wrong
10.A pathetic Pill
11.Conjunctivitis
12.A Letter To Russia
Worry Sponge
2007Track List:
1. Worry Sponge
2. I Smell Like An Old Man