The Kazoo Funk Orchestra are a music collective from Glasgow

Glasgow

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, Scotland

Scotland

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Biography

The Kazoo Funk Orchestra formed in Scotland

Scotland

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 at the end of 2005, as a pre-apocalyptic merry-go-round collective, featuring musicians, anti-poets, dancers and finger painters. Building their melodies at a DIY project studio in producer Ray McCartney’s living room, the band exchanged influences and took inspiration from various genres to create their eclectic mix-tape sound.

In May 2006, the band released their 25-track debut album

Album

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, Midnight Finger Painter, in which the first 500 copies included a unique finger painting created by fans and band members. This was followed by a handful of local gigs, before Adventures in Fuzzy Felt Land was released as a thirteen track EP

Extended play

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 in January 2007.

In the summer of 2007, the collective undertook their first UK tour, including a couple of festival

Music festival

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 dates. The latter included a closing slot at the 2008 Wickerman Festival

Wickerman Festival

The Wickerman Festival is an annual music festival held near to Dundrennan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Dubbed 'Scotland's Alternative Music festival', the festival will celebrate its 10th Birthday in 2011 on Friday 22nd & Saturday 23rd July....

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During the winter of 2007-2008, the band released This Album is Self Titled, their second full-length LP.

A recorded session was aired on BBC Alba

BBC Alba

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 in January 2009.

Achievements

• Received radio airplay on XFM Scotland
  Galaxy Scotland
  105-106 Capital is a regional radio station broadcasting to Scotland's Central Belt, an area surrounding the two cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and the kingdom of Fife...
  
   and BBC Radio
  BBC Radio
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• Nominated for an Indy Award in 2008.
• Interviewed on Greek TV show, Art Uber Alles.
• Featured on King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
  King Tut's Wah Wah Hut
  King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, also known as King Tut's, is a live music venue and bar in on St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland. It is owned and managed by Glasgow-based gig promoters DF Concerts...
  
  's YourSound compilation album
  Compilation album
  A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
  
  , Best of Term One.

Discography

• Midnight Finger Painter (2006)
• Santa's Dead (2006)
• Adventures in Fuzzy Felt Land (2007)
• This Album is Self Titled (2008)
• Motion Sickness (2008)

Current members

• Little Beard
• Big Beard
• Herbal
• Mechanical
• Smalls
• Boyce
• Mr Bruff
• Part-Time Dav
• Glowstick Girl
• Mia Funkyslice
• Loop de Loop
• Country Bumkin

Past members

• El Baterista
• Blunder
• Grum
• Krash Slaughta (II Tone Committee
  II Tone Committee
  II Tone Committee a.k.a Tones of Twice, composed of Mista Bohze, Defy, Sace and DJ Krashslaughta and emerged from the Glasgow Hip Hop scene of the late 80’s-History:...
  
  , All Time High, Monkey Mafia)
• Jim 'N' Tonic
• T-Bone (aka Nunny Boy of All Time High)

External links

• The Kazoo Funk Orchestra Official website
• The Kazoo Funk Orchestra MySpace Profile
• BBC Rapal Live session on BBC Rapal
• Band Spotlight Article in the Evening Times
  Evening Times
  The Evening Times is an evening tabloid newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland.-History:The paper, an evening sister paper of The Herald, was established in 1876. The paper's slogan is "Nobody Knows Glasgow Better"....
  
  
• Live Review from Wickerman Festival
  Wickerman Festival
  The Wickerman Festival is an annual music festival held near to Dundrennan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Dubbed 'Scotland's Alternative Music festival', the festival will celebrate its 10th Birthday in 2011 on Friday 22nd & Saturday 23rd July....
  
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• Album Review (Midnight Finger Painter) in the Daily Record
  Daily Record (Scotland)
  The Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid newspaper based in Glasgow. It had been the best-selling daily paper in Scotland for many years with a paid circulation in August 2011 of 307,794 . It is now outsold by its arch-rival the Scottish Sun which in September 2010 had a circulation of 339,586 in...
  
  
• Trailer Trash CREME Skateboards promo video featuring The Kazoo Funk Orchestra