The Sandwich EP is the debut EP

Extended play

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 recorded by the Stoke

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-based ska punk

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 band Grown at Home

Grown At Home

Advantage, a brass rock band featuring members of Grown at Home is a British ska punk band, that were tipped as "the new market leaders for their genre in this country, with a nationwide fanbase to back their unsurmountable popularity"...

. It was produced and mixed by Iain Wetherell. The EP received positive reviews, and the song "Don't Be a Menace to King Kong While Drinking Banana Juice in The Congo" was broadcast on BBC Radio 1

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's "The Lock Up" with Mike Davies.

The EP was released by Cash For Pigs Records (a label founded to release the EP) on compact disc

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. It is an eponymously-titled EP, with cover art depicting a sandwich and the Grown at Home

Grown At Home

Advantage, a brass rock band featuring members of Grown at Home is a British ska punk band, that were tipped as "the new market leaders for their genre in this country, with a nationwide fanbase to back their unsurmountable popularity"...

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, but is referred to as The Sandwich EP by fans.

Although the EP is now out of print

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, having sold more than 1000 copies it is currently available for download from the iTunes Store

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Track listing

1. "One Up"
2. "Don't Be a Menace to King Kong While Drinking Banana Juice in The Congo"
3. "PG-13"
4. "Captain Stabbin'"
5. "Sense of Humour"

Trivia

• The title of the second song on the EP, "Don't Be a Menace to King Kong While Drinking Banana Juice in The Congo", is an obvious homage to the 1996 Wayans Brothers film Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
  Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
  Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood is a 1996 parody film by Shawn and Marlon Wayans. Similarly to I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, the film spoofs a number of black, coming-of-age, 'hood films' such as Juice, Jungle Fever, South Central, Higher Learning, Do the Right...
  
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• The song "Captain Stabbin'" is named after the hardcore pornography
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   website
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  captainstabbin.com.

External links

• Official Grown at Home Website
• Grown at Home on MySpace