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Purple Munkie

"...four weeks and a wedding later we were an established, refined, sexy, sleek and slick noise machine".

So much for Purple Munkie's autobiography. Here are some more facts that will undoubtedly go down in Trivial Pursuit's Pop section: Purple Munkie hail from Elgin/Forres which is "the rock'n'roll capital of, uhm, Forres", they're a four-piece and released their first EP on poo brown vinyl. Not to mention that Purple Munkie rock and, opposed to the likes of Coldplay and Toploader, they mean it.

With their highly addictive punkpop tunes, Purple Munkie are definitely a band to watch out for in the future. And despite their tender age (under-twenty-something), they already have numerous glorious shows under their belt, including supporting 100 Reasons at Camden's Monarch last year, which saw guitarist James shredding his fingers bloody in the name of rock'n'roll.Awww.

To sum it up, Purple Munkie start where early Ash stopped and they're ready to rock the pl...er...galaxy!

Well, according to guitarist James he'll personally "be sitting at the bottom of the ocean wearing concrete shoes" by 2020, whilst singer/"scapegoat" Alan reckons he'll be "most likely sleeping" at the time. Ah well. Try something else then. So what do they do apart from pursuing a rock'n'roll lifestyle and being in a band? Alan claims to be a "waster", James describes himself as a "freeloading student bastard". Typical...

Right, on to the classy contents-of-fridge question. Hugely important to judge wether a band will be able to physically survive the exhaustions of rock'n'roll. Alan's fridge is fitted with "pizza, beer and micro chips" which sums up to a healthy rockstar diet. Hopefully someone supplies james with food, seeing that "there is a light" in his fridge "and it never goes out".Duh!

Slightly more random stuff about the band includes that James has a problem with simple film techniques ("on TV when someone reads a letter, why is it that you hear the person who wrote the letter speaking and not the person reading the letter? They only wrote it, they never said anything. Anytime I read a letter it's my voice I hear, not whoever wrote the letter. It's just not fair.") and Alan constructed a rather bizarre theory about Carebears having been sent out by the KGB to spy on the Western world. And the fact that the official Purple Munkie website (http://all.at purplemunkie) features a "tabs" (picture of an overloaded ashtray) and a "fan" (picture of a fan.Fan as in ventilator) page. All hail the Munkie business.

Purple Munkie's first release, The Balls EP, was out on Alphabetty (www.alphabetty.co.uk for details or get it in the shops, it's distributed by Prime). A demo version of "I've not got you under my skin" appeared on Fudge Fanzine Compilation 2 (http://come.to/fudgenet) and Purple Munkie are also featured on a Fierce Panda Compilation that was out beginning of March. Future releases on Alphabetty are under construction.