Pookiesnackenburger

[Parson Henry]

Whatever happened to them?

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Luke Cresswell drummed with Norman Cook on Beats International stuff and wrote Stomp the stage show.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

They were always a bit shit to be honest

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Oh yeah, they were a bit shit aswell.

 

[Parson Henry]

They were always a bit shit to be honest

why say that? can you play an instrument?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

why say that? can you play an instrument?

No, but I can buy a pair of DMs and kick a dustbin


Face it, John Helmer was the knobbie one out the Piranhas. Considered himself a cut above. Give me good 'ol Bob Grover anytime.

Pookiesnackenburger were SOOOOO Brighton Festival :safeway:

 

[Parson Henry]

OK.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

OK.

Easy! Easy! Easy!

 

[Parson Henry]

That was one of their best toons!

 

[Gwylan]

Face it, John Helmer was the knobbie one out the Piranhas. Considered himself a cut above.

I met him a few years back. He was a sharp-suited marketing whizz-kid for a conference company.

Long way from the Piranhas, eh?

 

[Race]

didn't one of them kick the bucket?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

didn't one of them kick the bucket?

The drummer was a serious smackhead at the time. Allegedly. Obviously. Maybe him?

But on the other hand. this is from an interweb thingie from 1999:

WHERE ARE THEY NOW...?
PIRANHAS' saxophonist Phil Collis, 45, a father of two, is an advertising executive living in New York. He still walks with a limp after the band's devastating road accident. He left England nine years ago after marrying his American girlfriend.

DRUMMER Dick Adland, 37 - known as Dick Slexia to his fans - lives with his girlfriend near Lewes, West Sussex, and is now a painter and decorator. He gave up music two years ago after working with other bands and also as a session man.

WILD-haired lead singer and songwriter Bob Grover, 42, is single and still lives in Brighton. He is now joint director of a computer company designing websites for the Internet. His nickname from the Piranhas days was Boring Bob.

FORMER co-lead singer and guitarist John Helmer, 43, lives in Brighton and is married with three children. Despite his full-time job as marketing manager for an Internet company, he has found time to write a novel, Mother Tongue.

BASSIST Reginald Hornsbury, 42, returned to his old trade as an electrician. Based in Swindon, he is separated with two children and still "mucks around" with his bass guitar. "The band was a slog," he says, "but there was lots of beer!"

 

[The Auditor]

Pookiesnackenburger were SOOOOO Brighton Festival

songs about ice creams and kebabs from what I remember

 

[Trufflehound]

Oh yeah, they were a bit shit aswell.

I think you'll find they were a lot more shit than that.

 

[HAMPSHIRE DAVE]

Remember being about 14 and Pookiesnackenburger coming on TOTP while watching it with Mum & Dad in the room!!!!
My Dad just sat there going,"What the hell is that"?
Felt about two feet tall.
HAMPSHIRE DAVE

 

[mona]

I thought they were a gay band. Am I gthinking about someone else?
I saw the Piranhas at the Arlington or Hungry Years in c1978.

 

[upnorthnow]

I thought they were a gay band. Am I thinking about someone else?
.

You must be thinking of lookiefudgiepacker...

 

[smudge]

Piranhas at the Bucaneer every Sunday night back in the day. Supporting bands like The Molestors, The Lil-Lets, Nicky & The Dots. Absolute quality. I was at school with Dick Adland so he got us into going to see them.
Happy Days indeed.

"I don't want my body,
It looks like a reject from an Oxfam poster,
Sex is it's hobby,
I stick it in the slot like bread in a toaster".

Ian Duryesque!!!

 

[Lush]

http://www.punkbrighton.co.uk/

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Didn't I ask this in Deceembr