I, Ludicrous
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I, Ludicrous is a three piece pop music
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 ensemble, formed in South London in 1985, by John Procter (born 1957) and David Rippingale ("Will Hung") (b. 1956). The band sprang to notoriety at the end of 1987, when their debut flexi release ("Preposterous Tales") reached Number 11 in John Peel
John Peel
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's Festive Fifty
Festive Fifty
The Festive Fifty was originally an annual list of the year's fifty best songs compiled at the end of the year and voted for by listeners to John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show...

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I, Ludicrous are still producing music today, and play occasional live dates, primarily in London. In January 2008, Brett Martini (Martin Brett) from Voice of the Beehive
Voice of the Beehive
Voice of the Beehive is an Anglo-American alternative pop rock band formed in London in 1986 by Californian sisters Tracey Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland, daughters of The Four Preps singer, Bruce Belland.- Career :...

 joined the band on bass guitar.

Albums

  • It's Like Everything Else (Kaleidoscope Sound) (1987)
  • Too Ludicrous (unreleased) (1988)
  • A Warning to the Curious (Rodney Rodney!) (1989)
  • Light And Bitter (Rodney Rodney!) (1990)
  • Idiots Savants (Old King Lud) (1992)
  • The Museum of Installation (Old King Lud) (2003)
  • 20 Years In Show Business (Sanctuary / Rough Trade) (April 2007)

Official Bootlegs (CDRs)

  • Deadpan Alley ("It's Like Everything Else" + "A Warning to the Curious")
  • Following On (A compilation album
    Compilation album
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     of mostly previously unreleased material)

Singles

  • "Preposterous Tales" (7" flexi given away free with Blah, Blah, Blah magazine) (1987)
  • "Quite Extraordinary" ((Kaleidoscope Sound) (1988)
  • "Preposterous Tales" (Rodney Rodney!) (1990)
  • "We Stand Around" (Roman Carbage) (1992)
  • "Hats Off to Eldorado" (Old King Lud) (1993)
  • "Man's Man" (Old King Lud) (1997)
  • "Approaching 40" (Old King Lud) (2000)
  • "Dirty Washing" (5 track EP
    Extended play
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    , Old King Lud LUD006) (February 2008)
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