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Home : Bands : Fred Yukka : Diary : April 2003April 2003What is this?This is the first entry in our diary we hope that it will get you up to date with what FRED YUKKA is all about and how we are carrying out our plan to dominate the world with our individual style of rock music. We will be updating this with entries every month or so.
FIRST ENTRY - April 2003From humble beginining in the Australian wilderness was harvested a creation, an idea, nay a dream of tight trousers, sweat and rock music. The beginning was marked when Fred Yukka very first took to the stage in the Deepend in May 2002. The band really started proper though in August 2002 (with a different line up) and performed in October 2002 at the Grapes, to a select and lucky audience.FRED YUKKA are
Our musical style varies from tune to tune but as we all have small attention spans, the tunes are short and punchy. The music has been described as "a unique combination of live instruments and spiky wit", "wonderfully stripped down rock and roll..." Since the bands inception we never had any intention of being one of those band that practice and never does any gigging. Gigs are what it's about and it's a good way of making sure we practice and get stuff done, and we do. In the Grapes we had just 5 tunes since then the set list has grown so we can now pick and chose what we play. We love our tunes like they're our own babies! Since Christmas we've played the Boardwalk, The Casbah, The Grapes and The Classic Rock Bar, we've also competed in the Battle of the Bands at the NMB (see review on l2sb.co.uk). We've also done a bit of recording, resulting in the completion of our first proper EP. Recording has been (like the whole thing) an exciting new adventure for us. Early recordings were rough although we now have some pretty good ones. Sandman's reviewed an early CD of ours as having "an amusing quality used to grab people's attention, a Tribute to David Hasselhoff is clearly long overdue and they supply it. For some reason it reminds me of some old Housemartin demos I once heard. Could be a decent garage band by the sounds of it." The ‘Amber EP' features all new recordings (more or less) and is available at Parrot Records -Devonshire St, Sheffield, or at our gigs. It has four tracks: A Tribute to David Hasselhoff, Drive on Amber, Munchkinland, and Relent-Less. So what's to come? After the Classic Rock Bar we decided to spend some time working on new material and after a brief respite we are about to start another batch of gigs over the next few months starting with 2nd May 2003 in Manchester, TMESIS Café BarLlyd St (near the Town Hall). It should be a really good night! It will be also featuring Jack on the sweet harp of joy. You can download our music and check out the details of our gigs at http://science.dc-hosting.co.uk/fredyukka/gigs.asp. We'd love to hear your feedback. Anyway a final word to you people who have seen and supported us up until now. It means the word to play to people we care about. Thanks!!
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