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Here is a bit of a story about the turds, written by Mark. It describes the forming of the turds, and a bit about some of the songs. For a look at past gigs, go to 'Gigs - Upcoming and Past'

Firstly, if anyone is interested in the drummer history, here is an attempt:

Started with Cara Morris, then a few 'fill ins' Henry Nichols, Milford McCarther, Leigh Hill and Cam Stephens have all helped out at short notice (some rehearsed and some just jamming along). Trent McCarthey, Dave McKenna and Angus Tarnawski have all done a few gigs with the turds, but they were all too busy to commit. So after biting the bullet and putting the ad in the shops we recruited Frosty (ex-burning the city), and also found a guy called Beau who is happy to step in whenever frosty cant make a show. Just when things were looking stable... The next revalation came when both Frosty and Beau moved to the mainland within a week of each other! So Tayler Massey stepped in for a couple of gigs, mark did a bit solo acoustic, until Beau returned from his travels. Now things are pretty stable with Mark (bass/vocal) and Beau (drum/vocal) and now our guest vocallist Dan is stepping up in a more prominent role, singing most of the set at most gigs.

 

 

 

now back to the story...

 

THE MUDDY TURDS

 

 

Here is a rundown of some songs:

   

Bad Breath Blues

-  I think most people get the bad breath blues in the morning. A short easy 12-bar ditty about that topic. The girl sleeping next to you may look picture-perfect, but the breath can ruin it!

 

Fruit Platter

-  Playing on the idea of analogies ‘your lips are like strawberrys’, made me think about looking at the ideal girl as a fruit platter.

 

Mail Order Bride

-  There was a band called ‘my phillipino bride’, I was thinking about them when I was in rural SA and saw a personal classified for old farmer needing a woman for cooking and cleaning. I thought he needs to get a phillipino bride, then changed it to mail order. Of course there is a humerous twist at the end.

   

The Girl of my Dreams Has the Head of a Donkey

-  Inspired by a song of the same name. Written as a jazz song by Mal Webb(see link) (I think the original is unaccompanied vocals only), pinched most of the words and put into a garage-rockabilly riff that I had.

 

 ATM Machine

-  There is a girl on the screen of the Westpac ATM machine talking you through instructions. I had the thought of some guy being drunk going to get some money and thinking that the girl was checking him out.