Bendy Monsters release the politically fatigued anthem ‘ Bollocks’ on Kycker 19/1/24
THE BENDY MONSTERS
Sheffield’s premier knockabout indie band, The Bendy Monsters make the most unlikely of returns in 2024.
Plumbing the depths of popular culture since their formation in 1992, they were a regular fixture on the city’s live scene during that decade, appearing at venues such as The Leadmill and the Hallamshire Hotel. Remembered for their absurd live performances, sometimes in the company of Emu sans-Rod Hull and occasionally sharing a bottle of Daddies Sauce with the audience, they recorded a series of demos, showcasing crowd-pleasers such as The A-Z of Dead Celebs, Living Next Door to The Krankies and Pauline Quirke in a Grit Wagon, all of which ended up on the 23-track compilation album, Mr Smith’s Fun Bar.
The Bendy Monsters binned it all off in the late-nineties, amid general lethargy perhaps borne-out in the lyrics of a latter-day composition, The National Centre For Popular Music: “Can’t be arsed to play, can’t be arsed to practice”. And there it stayed, short of a brief outing at the Mablethorpe Busking Festival in 2012. Such is the way of the rancid world, as one might add.
Then, on a Sunday afternoon at the arse-end of 2023, in a downstairs box room of a semi-detached property on an unspecified Sheffield estate, three Bendy Monsters gathered to discuss this most unlikely of comebacks. Another member, some ninety miles east, sat patiently in a subdued outbuilding, fiddling with small pieces of wire and awaiting further instructions.
The first fruit of the reunion, a politicized reworking of their popular live-favourite, B.O.L.L.O.C.K.S hit the online shelves in January 2024. A fitting release in an election year which, you never know, might just catch on!
Work is underway to write new material as well as revisit some of the band’s nineties output
The Bendy Monsters – Bollocks
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