Music Post: MGF
I love this song a lot. Dirrrrty and fun, just the way I like MGF. Well, a lot of things, really :P. I miss them a lot, and I never saw them live.
This is an article from the workhardpr site... It's a little out of date. A LOT out of date. They're not touring anywhere, they're are now sadly defunct.
MACHINE GUN FELLATIO: A BRIEF GUIDE
Nobody's sure where the name came from, or what it means. There's a rumour it was thought up by somebody named Adolph who's not actually in the band.
The naming happened a couple of years ago, when Machine Gun Fellatio was first formed, although nobody quite recalls when or how that happened, It seems to have taken place when everybody was very out of it. This is apparently how things work in MGFellatioland. There is a rumour that the band started out doing soundtracks for porn films.
There are seven permanent members of Machine Gun Fellatio - at last count. Depending on whether or not you count the hula-girl, or the baby sheep. Those seven are:
Pinky Beecroft (boy) - vocals, keys
The Widow Jones (girl) - vocals
KK Juggy (girl) - vocals
3K Short (man) - bass, keys, guitar
Chit Chat von Loopin Stab (kid) - loops, stabs, vocals
Bryan Ferrysexual (boy) - drums
Loveshark (boy) - guitars
Mostly the band is Australian. With German elements. There is talk of a South American franchise.
Nobody's sure. But there has certainly been a great deal of success in Australia.
The first Machine Gun Fellatio album, Bring It On, went gold. The most recent album has gone platinum and spawned several top ten singles, including the hits Rollercoaster, Pussytown and The Girl of My Dreams Is Giving Me Nightmares. There has been saturation airplay on radio stations, both college and commercial and the band has long been a solid favourite of JJJ-FM, the national youth radio network.
But it's the live show that has probably generated the most press for this strange collection of unhinged individuals. For some time the band was banned from performing at several Australian universities, allegedly for onstage nudity.
Machine Gun Fellatio are currently touring with Russell Crowe and Thirty Odd Foot Of Grunt. Much to everybody's extreme bewilderment. They are then travelling to Europe, the UK and the US. New turf, new drugs, new fuckbuddies. Yes indeed.
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