History of Pugh, the greatest geek rock band.

Written by Leo Loikkanen Creative Commons, some rights reserved (No financial gain may be gotten from this work, altering prohibited.)

Introduction:

Just like TISM before them, Pugh set out to make satirizing views of the big wiggly world around us. Armed with weird and original instruments, as well as common household items and series manifactured instruments, they would make music that aimed to be ”Genreless”. Indeed, each CD would be filled with songs of various genre, as well as songs, that had no genre at all, or so they thought.

Of course, if you're going to attack peers by name, and sing songs like ”Posh Beckham ain't nothing but a monkey” you NEED masks. Performer L, Dom I. Nator, Nala Modnar and D.A.V.E.'s true identities were never revealed. Still, their masks live on, as well as their stage personalilties. Performer L would strain his vocal chords by rapping, screaming and singing various songs about what made the band tick, what was wrong about the world in the smaller scale. He also was responsible for most of the artwork seen in the albums, and posters. Dom I. Nator would bang the drums to no end, and at the same time, operate 2 supporting drum machines. This sound was never heard before, and it was mainly due to the special stompboxes that Dom and Nala built. Nala Modnar on the other hand, was a true guitar wailing, pirate hating NINJA. He would use all kinnds of weird things to drive unheard sounds from the guitar, WHILE making ninja kicks and punches. D.A.V.E. Was on the other hand a wizard with the synthesizers. He had built some in his younger days. It was actually because of his first self built synths and instruments that gave Pugh their original sound.

But how did the band get started, and why was one of them from a different country? Let's start from the Beginning.

Chapter 1: Performer L and Pugh's early years.

Opposite to the contary belief that all members of Pugh are from UK, is false. According to the factoids gathered from Pugh's albums, and from statemens from Performer L himself, it's true that Performer L originated from Finland, which later explains all the otherworldy howling on some of the albums. Performer L didn't start as a singer thought. In his early years, he was fond of rapping. With some shady figures from the apst, he even did some hate filled, sarcastic rap albums. Of course, the Finish press got the wind of this, and Performer L was asked to explain the meaning of the songs on the album.

”All the music, all the artists I listen to are so freaking happy and not attacking anyone with humor, and the songs i hear that are supposed to be humorous are not. This album is meant to satirize the world we live in, as well as the rap music culture, which mainly is about black women with big bosoms and behinds.” ~Performer L in a Press conference.

This attitude was not rather original, to say the least. An australian Alt. Rock band called TISM (This Is Serious Mum!) used the same tactics, and deadpan humor in their albums. Performer L, however adopted this attitude, as well as the anonymity, but made a strange twist to it. He could tell people who the song was about, so they could listen to the songs with ”That ear”. No one was spared. All celebs got their share of hate and satirization. Needless to say, Performer L wasn't really popular to the wide audience.

”The thing is, that i don't care if people don't like me. I'm not in this for the money, i'm in this to get people realise how messed up the world is, and how shallow people can be”~Performer L

After some time, Performer L disappeared into the fog of obscurity. No one knew what was going on. Some say he wentto become a biochemist, some say that he was in the inernet, making music with Open Source Software(OSS) programs. They were all wrong. During the downtime, Perfomer L had went to UK, with the initial purpose to smoke some dodgy pot his mate had gotten. The mate in question was of course, Nala Modnar. Perfomer L and Nala Modnar had met in the Internet and became friends.

”Nala had told me that he'd been learning guitar. Actually we had a pact that we'd both learn how to play the guitar. I played some riffs that Snakefinger (Philip Lithman) had done on ”Stars and Hank forever” album by the Residents. I gave the guitar to Nala, who in turn played a Van Halen riff. At double speed.”~Performer L

After this, it was clear that Nala would be greatest Ninja who ever wailed the guitar. Ever. Performer L and Nala did some minimalistic performances at Nala's uni while Perfomer L was still in UK.

”Basicly, we both played guitars, i'd have a double neck guitar, that had bass guitar strings on the lower neck. I'd actually pluck the bas strings, and add some guitar plucks at the same time while playing the bass. Dom also was there, so we gave him a drum machine on Jam mode, and he'd press the buttons and make drumming noises while we were playing and singing.” ~Performer L

Pugh at it's old form would throw some gigs, but it would not last. Performer L had serious injuries in an Xbox welding accident, and suffered 3^rd degree burns on his face. Luckilly, it was cured, more or less, but his face was now hideous roadmap of scars and different pigmented patches of skin. However, being quite the optimistic, he choose to wear a ski mask, mirror glasses, cowbot hat, dinner jacket with a white shirt, and a black tie, along with black ankle lenght men' skirt and army boots. Leo Hideous had been born.

Around this time, Nala and Dom left to pursue their careers in the fields they had chosen. Even D.A.V.E. Left, but because he noticed Leo's passion to keep the band alive, he recruited his younger brother, Spoongod has his band mate. Spoon's wizardry with synthesizer launched Pugh mark 2.

The first single ”Skin up Douglas” was palyed on Catnip radio, and landed Spoon's job as a DJ to them. Leo stays at home, using his computer to produce vocals and some other noises, which spoon then adds to Spineless songs. They're currently working on ”24-hour single” a musical piece intended to be composed in just a day. Impossible you may ask? Don't worry, they got plenty of Pot.