On Rob C’s Thin Music Thread, Mr Saucy mentions Tintern Abbey and how he thinks this was the only band which featured a live owl perched on the singer’s shoulder?
What other band’s featured animals in their set? The obvious one is Alice Cooper and snake. Fairport Convention on the reverse side of ‘What we Did on our Holidays’ show them on stage with a prone alsatian.
Any more?
The Doors had a lizard as their frontman.
There’s a famous pic of Jimbo cradling a lamb.
The Stone Roses’ singer was a chimp.
Not forgetting Seal of course.
We can throw Fish at him.
Bona little novelty act, that….
Didn’t ZZ Top’s ‘Bringing Texas to the World Tour’ feature all sorts of Texan wildlife on stage?
I once saw Van Morrison at the New Theatre in Oxford – late 1990s I think.
Welsh keyboard wizard Geraint Watkins was in the middle of an organ solo when a stuffed sheep was lowered from on high to hang suspended directly above Geraint’s head. Van, band and audience were laughing their heads off. It took Mr Watkins a while to twig what was going on. He took it very well.
Apparently Van had come across the sheep in a local antique shop that afternoon and had a bright idea. This was of course before Van took the pledge in 2000 and had a humour bypass.
Famously, there was a facsimile cow in the recording studio among the hay bales, while Yes were recording Toppo. Wikipedia reports electronic udders.
“Wikipedia reports electronic udders” sounds like a mnemonic taught by a trendy maths teacher.
The Inspiral Carpets had a couple of big cows on stage when I last saw them.
My mate said they were pantomime cows. I wasn’t convinced, much preferring the idea that they were just really big, well trained cows that could dance a little bit to Commercial Reign
Ozzy’s bat
Nana Mouskouri had an Electric Ferret Trapeze on stage with her during her Psychedelic Free Jazz phase.
These days the ferrets are strictly solar. Well green is our Nana.
Soft Cell had crabs.
Glad to see you have your teeth in for once.
According to an urban myth Marc Almond must have kept a goat as a pet at some point.
I suppose it ought to be me who posts this:
Didn’t they have flying pigs at one point, too?
It is balloon!
British Sea Power.
Animals, birds, even shrubbery.
A Shrubbery !!!!
Swedish band Amason have lots of stuffed animals and birds with them on stage.
And most of their songs are named after animals.
Bob Kerr’s Whoopee Band (a kind of first reserve Bonzos) used to have a popsy sporting a python as part of the act. She didn’t do anything else, as fas as I remember.
“Popsy”? Well played sir!
Sorry about that – having a 1067 groats flashback.
I went to a party at Bob Kerr’s house in Putney many years ago where I first met Ralph McTell. My then girlfriend rather ruined the night by drinking too much, cornering poor Ralph and insisting on singing some of the “songs” she’d written. You can guess the rest.
Reader, you married her?
*shudders*
Thankfully not. She was a total liability.
Ralph is such a nice guy and was the perfect gentleman throughout. Eventually someone extricated him from the situation and I poured her into the car and we exited.
*shudders again*
Craaaaaiiiig David had Kes