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And this is how the band got together.....
Following the band through the years like some sort of annoying fly is this report.....
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The early, early years
1986-1988
In 1986 Harvey Pelican began work at a fishmongers in Grimsby. He had played music constantly over the last 10 years, and had formed a band with some school friends called Granada Service Station.
This band was mostly influenced by “artists” such as Duran Duran and Wham! Granada Service Station wanted to reach the people with music that would grab you by the neck and want to dunk you in the nearest drinking hole. But unsuccessful touring, including a hijacking of their equipment in Lincoln meant that they had to re-think over any such plans for the future.
Current bassist at the time, Montgomery Jefferson was very much tied up with other commitments that of working at his local ant – farm pet store. Granada Service Station were beginning to feel the heat as they were left without any instruments and losing 2 band members (the second of whom was tragically killed during a game of conkers…)
By 1988 Granada Service Station had not picked up an instrument in nearly 16 months. It was during these times that Harvey Pelican began to turn to the Bible for inspiration and for the next 3 years decided to tour the world with the Jesus Army. His eventual split led to the demise of Granada Service Station. The 2 remaining band members who had ceased to turn up to any practice sessions before because they were at the local cemetery “kicking over tombstones”, decided by mutual consent that their lives would be better spent on the dole and stealing sweets from young innocent children.
Granada Service Station finally announced their split in 1988 at the local garden fete in their small town of Evinsborough, where the local elderly population sighed in disbelief that the young band had finally given up something of which they had shown such promise in after leaving school to work part-time at the local car boot sales.
1988-1991
Harvey Pelican was sentenced to work in Sweden on behalf of the Jesus Army, where in which he would have his guitar eaten by a local.
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the nineties and what they brought....
1992 – 1996
After his love for Aintree Racecourse and Crunchie Nut Cornflakes became too much, Harvey Pelican returned to the UK to work in a Welsh slate mine. Here he would guide tourists through the caverns of wonder. But as he spent days underground in the darkness and the cold, Harvey Pelican’s new lyrics were taking a “sharper” edge. His listening to music such as Nirvana and The Shamen produced a new wave of lyrics that would inspire Harvey Pelican to write some of the most “gloomy” and “shite” songs of the early – to – mid nineties.
Throughout these 4 years Harvey Pelican toured the country with his acoustic tour entitled “Anglesey Adoration for Albatross”. He would earn critical acclaim for the interval sets where young Irish people would enter the stage to directly copy the River dance.
Taking in such sites, as Brighton Promenade and Blackpool would be the highlights of Harvey Pelican’s latest tour. Christmas 1994 saw Harvey take the stage opposite Michael Barrymore in the panto, Peter Pan. Yet, his music was not allowed to be played on stage at the panto and Harvey Pelican merely served as character that would be shouted and laughed at by the audiences, hurling copious amounts of boiled sweets.
The remaining 2 years saw Harvey Pelican touring the London Tube Stations where he played joyously to thousands of passer – bys. During this time he made £8.65 and had his guitar stolen on 4 occasions, all of which by “aggravated” travellers.
1997 – 2000
After 4 years of failing to break the UK music scene, Harvey Pelican jetted off to the Far East where he would begin to play his music in seedy clubs. After some surprisingly rave reviews and some bribery, Harvey Pelican was beginning to become one of the hottest Mongolian imports. Although without any recorded material, the live shows of Harvey Pelican were beginning to draw the attention of some unknown producers, one of which was Sebastian Defoe.
Non – stop touring of the Far East, which brought about Harvey Pelican paying 1000 dates, ended in February 2000, when Harvey once again got homesick and decided to return to the UK after winning a flight home in a game of Snakes ‘n Ladders.
A disagreement with Sebastian Defoe over who got the window seat on the aeroplane ended what was becoming a close friendship, and the 2 didn’t speak for the remainder of the year, a year in which Harvey Pelican took sick leave after “exhaustion”.
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The Present....
coming soon.....
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