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Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (1911–1965) was a popular musician and bandleader specialising in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs. Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, and ridiculous vocals. Jones was born on the 14th December 1911 in Long Beach, California. He got his nickname by being so thin that he was compared to a railroad spike. At the age of eleven he got his first set of drums. As a teenager he played in bands that he formed himself. A railroad restaurant chef taught him how to use pots and pans,...

Patrick Cairns "Spike" Hughes (19 October 1908 – 2 February 1987) was a British jazz musician, composer and music journalist. He was the son of Irish composer, writer and song collector Herbert Hughes and great grandson of the sculptor Samuel Peploe Wood. Hughes was a multi-dimensional musician, playing the double bass, composing operatic scores, arranging jazz recordings and writing books on topics ranging from gardening to Toscanini's music. Hughes' small recording group was one of the earliest artists signed to Decca Records in England, spanning the period from 1930 to 1933, including over 30 sessions. Originally billed as Spike Hughes...

droney fuzzed-up psychedelic rock n roll'. They build a dense shimmering wall of psychedelic noise, brimming with shuddering tremolo-treated shoegaze guitars, synth drones and shuffling, laid-back percussion to hypnotic effect. They're not ones to chat with the audience, playing the songs back to back to build and maintain the atmosphere. The vocals are drenched in layers of reverb and delay and half buried in the mix. The instruments all merge to form a blurred, fuzz-filled sonic haze. (thanks to Christopher Nosnibor for this paragraph) Find them on facebook and Myspace and in assorted live venues in and around York! .