Mustard Allegro! Mustard Allegro are not from California. Perhaps, then, the office blocks, docks and cranes of their native Bristol explain the angular portwards list of their peculiar brand of Surf music. The sense of humour is certainly British: named after an iconically awful 1970s car, and sporting track titles like 'At the Mount of the Chocolate Fountain, At the Fount of the Chocolate Mountain (Hyperdrive!)', the Mustards inhabit a world in which King Crimson write energetic two-minute micro-epics with Joe Meek at the controls, then dash down to the beach, boards in arms, only to find half a mile of mud between them and the Severn Estuary. For fans of Dick Dale, Link Wray, The Ventures, Man Or Astro-Man? and Bambi Molesters as well as those of The Fall, Marc Ribot, Ivory Springer and Slint. For gig dates and relatively up-to-date information, please visit our page on Myspace: www.myspace.com/mustardallegro If you're on Myspace too, please be our friend. We're not picky. E-mail us, if you like. Biography If Mark E Smith had turned up to that Fall gig in late 2005, history would have been very different. As it was, without a ranting Manc to keep him occupied, Mike got to thinking. He thought up a band, like a surf-rock Fall, like Reverend Horton Heat and Shadowy Men. The world needed to hear that band. By January, he'd recruited three fellow travellers, Taz, Hugh and Alex, and they met to rehearse. After a few sessions, it was decided that Taz wasn't suited to the band (although his solo electronic music is great, and you can hear it here), so that left a core of three. Mike bangs the drums, Hugh thumps the bass guitar, Alex twangs his Stratocaster through some serious reverb, and the resulting noise is called Mustard Allegro. The band recorded a first demo, the Swindon Oasis EP, in a secret location in Clevedon in April 2006. Mark Tanner was the recording engineer, and Hugh mixed the results into the MP3s you can hear on our myspace. We now have a new bass player; Maz is now stepping into the considerable shoes of Hugh. However, we hope not to have heard the last of Hugh in Mustard Allegro and he can keep adding occasional touches of his splendid musical madness in the future. We have been busy in the studio this year and have a brand new album called Dwarf Shortage, and it will be available (at the usual knockdown prices) at our album launch at The Cube on Saturday 23rd January 2010. Get in touch with anyone in the band to order a copy.. Mustard Allegro continue to play live regularly. Check our myspace for the lastest gig information. Discography

		Our first record, the Swindon Oasis EP we released in 2006 Was recorded in two days accross one weekend and featured the tracks. Great White, Screamer, Sidewinder, Wave Machine and Theme from Mustard Allegro. It is ment to be a musical interpretation of the various rides on offer at the Swindon Oasis Leisure Centre. I don't know how the idea came about but we went ahead and developed the idea in the first few months of the band being around. Hear tracks on... Myspace Buy the EP from... Diabetic Horse Records Download EP for FREE from... Mustard Allegro Website
		For the christmas of 2006 we wrote and recorded a track called Unforeseen Consequences of Global Warming. The song was available for free download from an online advent calendar where people could download a song each day. The track was done with Gonorrhoeas member Mark playing the Glockenspiel on the track & rahoki doing backing vocals. This was the first song Alex used his Fender Twin amp on. The sleigh bells on the song were created by filling a coffie mug with nuts and bolts and shaking it.
		Hugh remixed and recorded new vocals in german with rahoki for a track from our Swindon Oasis EP, for a Fundraising CD for our favourite venue The Junction which was having financial trouble, the CD simply called Disjunction was released in 2007 contained tracks from various eclectic bands and musicians like... SJ Esau, North Sea Navigator, Safetyword, Big Joan, Arctic Circle Hunting Lodge, You & The Atom Bomb, and White Trash Ambition.
		On the 24th and 25th February 2007 Mustard Allegro recorded again, this time in our new practice space, Morts Practice Emporium. We laid down seven tracks for what would be The Badgerdebon EP. On 7th March 2007 Mike and Hugh went to Keynsham to get Max Milton to record some violin parts for one of the tracks. Badgerdebon has yet to be released and my never be released.
		On the 2nd December 2007 Mustard Allegro record again back at Morts Practice Emporium. The Aim is to record another track for the free online advent calendar as they did last year. They Record 3 songs... Tree, Snowman and Little Fluffy Clouds (an Orb cover) Mark Antony White Ford records some of the most amazing Sax i have ever heard it takes him one take without even hearing the tune. Rabid Pounder mixes the tracks Tree and Snowman. Tree is used for The calendar as it comes out absolutely bonkers.
		Mustard Allegro record Assessment of Submarine Geohazards an SJ Esau cover version for SJ Esaus More Touching CD. The CD was available from American record label Anticon with the first Hundred or so copies of the SJ Esau Album Small Vessel. We did this session again at Morts Practice Emporium on the 13th April 2008 with Maz playing bass as Hugh is unavailable for the session. The Track is Mixed and Mastered by Ill Spectre for Ill Spectre Productions.
		Alex, Mike & Maz go into a proper recording studio to record the first Mustard Allegro Album Dwarf Shortage from 1st-4th September 2009. We get almost 20 tracks recorded. On the last day the engineer says to Alex, "You do realise you've produced an absolutely mental album". The Album is Pressed the following week and available the week after. The Artwork was done by Alex Bertram-Powell. The CD was pressed by Hi-Fi Copies. Hear tracks on... Myspace

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