Border security involved explaining why ten musicians and a blow-up elephant were trying to cross the English Channel at 3am but the immigration officials let us through after an impromptu rendition of Wild Stallion Mountain convinced them that we were the real deal. The Skipper proved he can drive a fully loaded tour bus on the right hand side of the road in the dead of night at least 90% of the time even after 36 hours awake. “A late booking on the Andrew Marr show at the BBC meant we had to rush back from Belgium in the dead of Saturday night to make a Sunday morning studio call. It wasn’t all bearhugs and skittles though. Great crowd response and tight bearhugs backstage from the festival director made us feel like we might be back one day real soon,” she says. The Skipper fit right in, looking like he had just waved a couple of MiGs onto the deck of an aircraft carrier. The crowd loved the sound-check and then they loved the show even more, even though our sound guy complained bitterly Cold War air bunkers weren't built for acoustics. "The Shaman has put some great photos up on our Facebook feed. It's not very often you get to play to a hyped-up crowd inside a Soviet-era aircraft bunker," says Singh. Little did they know that one day it would be the place where German hipsters got their first taste of Aussie-Bollywood flamboyance. It's where the Soviets abandoned their military base at Rechlin-Larz airfield in the former East Germany. Vive Le France!”įrom there they went to the “Fusion Festival in Germany.
We watched Bastille Day fireworks from the mountaintop whilst supplying our own Punjabi rock soundtrack. None of the neighbours complained…at least not in English. “After visiting the castle garden we wrote a couple of killer psychedelic tracks which will appear on our second album released in 2014. Great vibes, balmy nights, portaloos overflowing on every side - what a festival!”įrom there they went to the quaint town of Avallon in rural France as they spent a week in a chateau working on new material, drinking wine, hunting boar and being fun guys and girls. “That night we played a show down at The Pussy Parlour and smoked cigars in the moonlight on the way to Shangri-La. [Um, something you know that we don’t? - Concerned Ed) We watched Mick Jagger strut out on stage, maybe for the last time,” Singh says. “Most of us tried to find a spot to watch the Rolling Stones play their headline set and ended up clinging to the security fence holding a bottle of single-malt to get a good view. Must have some serious guns, 300,000 people ain’t light. The Main Stage show had the crowd up and dancing despite the heat and The Colonel held aloft above a big crowd,” she says. “A midnight backstage show followed, including drinking sessions with Time Warner executives and rubbing shoulders with some of the festival big names. Singh reports fellow leadsinger The Tiger later “found himself accosted by a naked man on the way back from CD signings. She leads from the front as you'll see below when she hits the stage in the filmed Glastonbury performance.
Melbourne’s 11-piece retro-sexual Bollywood spaghetti-surf heroes The Bombay Royale are a case in point.Īustralia’s best party band played thrice at the world’s most famous/infamous festival held at Chez Eavis where the Mysterious Lady “wore jewel-studded gumboots, she refused to wear anything less,” says Parvyn Singh aka The Mysterious Lady who likes a bit of third person dialogue. His first release as JNBO on HopeStreet Recordings is a remix of The Bombay Royale’s The River, from the soundtrack of UbiSoft Games’ Far Cry 4, one of the biggest video games of 2014.All the latest in Australia's indie music scene with a Melbourne focusĮVERYONE who goes to Glastonbury comes back altered. Known for playing bass in bands The Cactus Channel, Frida and Karate Boogaloo and as a sessional player for artists like Mojo Juju and Emma Donovan, Henry is now making all kinds music in his Wyall Style studio, where he not only records quality deep funk bands on a reel to reel tape recorder, but geeks out on sub-basement-choirboy-electronica in the duo Loafer and bent remixes and freaky beats as JNBO. Analog engineering meets laptop experimentation.
The Dark Horse of Far West Brunswick brings that vintage/filter/tape sound he's known for but now it's torn apart and reconstituted in Ableton in a collage of twisted samples, space echo and synthesizers. JNBO aka Henry Jenkins, Deep soul bassist and 45 funk champion by night, reveals himself as maker of digi-trash-ghettodelic beats and stupid no-budget photoshop artwork by day.