The Remipeds

REMIPEDS 1979-1982
The Remipeds First Appeared In The Lively And Flourishing Music Scene Of Post-Punk London In The Late 1970s. Right From The Beginning It Was Clear That This Was No Ordinary Band Jumping On Many Of The Bandwagons That Were Making Their Way Through The Clubs And Pubs Of Trend-Crazed London. Initially Confining Their Mind-Bending Live Performances To The 23rd Of Every Month And/or Full Moons This Band Borrowed More From The Future Than The Past Or The Present. A Remarkable Blend Of Rock Psychedelia World-Music Ambient Reggae And Dub Techno And Postmodern Juxtapositions Of TV And Movie Themes With Pseudo-Political And Outer-Space Samples Remipeds Never Quite Let The Listener Know What Was Going On By Making Sure The Band Didn't Either.
The Remipeds Burned Brightly For Around Two Years. Their Meteoric Rise To Fame Coupled With An Incredible Creative Output In The Form Of Songs Interpretive Dances Children's Stories Multi-Media Events Bodily Noises And Fluids And Sadly Much Much More Took London And Indeed Most Of England By Storm. Their Influence Can Be Said To Have Penetrated Every Nook And Cranny Of Popular Music Today. Indeed This May Arguably Be A Good Reason For The Rapid Decline Of Popular Music In The New Millennium.
Fortunately Most People Have Never Heard Of The Remipeds. There Are Several Very Good Reasons For This Tragic Lapse. Along With What Has Come To Be Known In The Literature As "The Cover-Up " The Band Was Boycotted By Major Record Companies Following The Infamous "EMI Xmas Caper." In This Legendary Episode The Lads Found To Their Own Surprise That Record Company Executives Are Singularly Lacking In Sense Of Humor When It Pertains To Their Own Persons. After "humorously" Squishing Custard Pies In The Faces Of All The A&R Men At The EMI UK Christmas Party At The Whitbread Brewery And Then Dancing On Their Tables While Said A&R Persons Were Trying To Eat The Boys Left Assured That They Like Every Other Band That Had Played At The EMI Xmas Party Would Be Signed Almost Immediately. What Were They Thinking You May Well Ask? What More To The Point Were They Smoking? Were They On Crack You May Well Ask? Surely We Know Not To Bite The Hand That Feeds Us Particularly Before It Has Fed Us? Apparently Not In The Case Of These Young Malcontents.
Living Constantly At The Temperature Of Their Own Destruction And Sometimes Exceeding It To The Point Of Becoming A Health Hazard The Frequently Feverish Remipeds Came To Epitomize The Power Of Creativity Freedom Independent Music And Post-Adolescent Stupidity. They Proudly Recorded On Their Own Banana Records As A Statement Against The Corruption So Rampant In The Music Industry And Because They Insisted The Album Should Be Pressed On Yellow Vinyl. Initially Distributed By The Legendary Rough Trade The First Album "The Tahiti Syndrome " Thrust The Boys Into A Limelight They Were Far Too Bleary-Eyed To Notice. A Recording For The BBCs John Peel Show Was Notable Almost Exclusively For The Au Naturel Performance By The Horn Players.
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Unfortunately The Complex Challenge Of Reconciling Order And Disorder Within The Band's Profoundly Pluralistic And Admittedly Ample If Somewhat Sagging Bosom Soon Proved Unbearable For Our Young Heroes. After A Couple Of Years The Centripetal Force Created By Remipeds Expelled The Band Members One After The Other. The Remipeds Disbanded In The Early 80s But Not Before Leaving Behind An Astonishing Body Of Work.
On This Website We'll Bring To The Attention Of Today's Listeners A Band That Was So Ahead Of Its Time It Was Once Humorously Speculated They Were In Fact Time Travellers. In A Disturbing Twist We Shall See That This Bizarre Conjecture May Not Be As Outlandish As It Might Seem. See Last Video Below For A Speculative Clarification By The Late Great Robert Anton Wilson. Along With Some Of The More Well-Known Remiped Songs We'll Also Occasionally Upload Some Of The Songs That Have Never Seen The Light Of Day. Well Not Publicly At Least. And For Very Good Reasons We Might Add. Which All Goes To Show That Despite Their Frenzied Creative Foolishness The Lads Did At The Time Have Some Modicum Of A Sense Of Discrimination Which Is A Hell Of A Lot More Than You Can Say For Whoever Is Managing This Myspace.
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