Laboratory Equipment - Rude Mechanicals

"One of the most exciting bands in outsider music. ...a delicious cacophony of trumpets, drums and guitars, led by a screeching singer who looks like Patsy from Absolutely Fabulous as styled by Elizabeth McGrath and sent out to steal children's souls. Sublime."
Bizarre Magazine - FEB '09

Rude Mechanicals play funky, post-punk-cabaret, absurd rock. They are lead by the charismatic Miss Roberts (vocal/harmonica) whose quirky lyrics are a key feature.

The band settled down into the current quintet line-up in 2008, with bass doubling keyboards and guitar doubling bass, violin doubling cornet doubling keyboards (or is that trebling?) The performances are often theatrical including such things as lessons in toe sucking.

The Rude Mechanicals first formed in 2001 playing as a scratch band at art events and cabaret in Cambridge.

"RUDE MECHANICALS have to be seen, no they really do have to be seen:
"...false red eye-lashes and strange ‘girls’ playing violin and big white wigs and red dresses and a new album that’s something to do with a cyclops and odd bits of funk and dance rituals that Miss Roberts demands you take part in, for it is she who leads this wonderfully strange band, and not a thing like Zappa but Frank was strange and so are they and.... I could say all that but it really wouldn’t give you any kind of clue."
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