Artists that never existed / bullshit backstories

[jobotic]

Obeng Ungu & Jalan Buntu with Group Uang Wayang of Palembang

https://groupuangwayang.bandcamp.com/album/1951-sumatran-ladies-wearing-hats-as-outlawed-by-government

[JaDanketies]

Marilyn Manson....


....


being a soft-spoken and contemplative individual worthy of respect

[sutin]

The Pooh Sticks. They had fictional band members and the like.

[jobotic]

But I've seen them!

[Moltar]

The Frosted Ambassador, one-album project from The Olivia Tremor Control's drummer Eric Harris. Backstory involving a long fictional career in fictional bands. The album itself is really nice, highly recommended if you like Elephant 6.

[Brundle-Fly]

Hard Skin is an English punk group from Gipsy Hill, London. Founded in 1996 and their first album Hard Nuts and Hard Cunts appeared that year. The band quote their musical guides as Close Shave, whom they worshipped the ground they walked on. The band were: bassist "Fat Bob" (Sean Forbes of Wat Tyler), guitarist and lead vocalist "Johnny Takeaway" (Ben Corrigan of Thatcher On Acid) and drummer "Nosher" (Chris Acland of indie/Britpop band Lush).

After Acland's tragic suicide not long after the first album's release in 1996, he was replaced on drums by "Nipper" (Scott Stewart) for second album Same Meat Different Gravy in 2005, which like its predecessor was received positively in punk and Oi! circles.

Apparently, the album grew a skinhead following who failed to see they were a pastiche turn. They didn't even look like a skinhead band at first but swiftly rectified their image after a couple of gigs where they noticed half the crowd looking a bit confused.  Everybody got in on the joke and then Hard Skin started to take themselves seriously as a proper street punk band, Heigh-ho.





Hard Nuts And Hard Cunts DEBUT ALBUM FULL (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9psoreC75hs

[sutin]

But I've seen them!

Aye they played gigs, they just had fictional band members credited on the sleeves with names like 'Trudy Tangerine'. Steve Gregory and Hue Williams wrote and recorded the music.

[Phil_A]

Cardiacs married couple Tim and Sarah Smith saying they were brother and sister to try and get journalists to acknowledge they even existed.

Speaking of Cardiacs, the side project Spratleys Japs had an elaborate backstory involving a displaced US bar band called The Rev-Ups who somehow ended up in The New Forest, where they teamed up with Tim Smith and Jo Spratley to record the album "Pony" in a run-down studio called Sparrows Wars. Of course the studio, the Rev-Ups, and the mysterious orchestra "The Nevergreen Symphonia" that is credited as playing on the record never existed, it was all Tim & Jo and a borrowed mellotron. The Japs, led by Jo, have since become an actual band who have played live and written new material, although the musicians credited in the sleevenotes remain curiously absent.

In a further metafictional twist, The Rev-Ups were announced as playing a gig in Brighton (spiritual home of the Japs and numerous associated acts) in the summer of 2020. But as this never took place, who was actually going to be in this band and what kind of music they'd actually play remains a mystery for now.

[Pauline Walnuts]

Nattramn



Here's a picture of him with the pig hands.

He needs to cut down on his pork-life.

[Jockice]

Yokel And The Bumpkins. Legends.

[pupshaw]

Certainly a band that did exist, but a classic bullshit backstory

Following the somewhat unexpected success of this album, Negativland faced the prospect of going on a money-losing tour in 1988. To prevent this, they created a press release which said Negativland were prevented from touring by "Federal Authority Dick Jordan" because of claims that Negativland's song "Christianity Is Stupid" had inspired 16-year-old mass murderer David Brom to kill his family. The press release went on to vigorously deny the purported connection between Negativland and the murders. While Brom had in fact argued with his father about music shortly before Brom killed his family, no one had ever claimed that Brom was spurred to murder by Negativland's music. The claim that Brom's crimes were inspired by Negativland was disseminated and discussed in the mass media, seemingly with little to no fact-checking.[

[Aleister Growley]

Jerry J. Nixon

The Gentleman of Rock n Roll

Apparently
"Jerry J. Nixon died end of 1999 and here his first!!! full length album, full of 50's Rock'n'Roll! He was a fantastic song writer and a one of the greatest unknown heroes of Rock'n'Roll...."


But Actually
"It's a fake LP featuring British actor Phil Hayes who lives and works in Switzerland. "

Turns out the big giveaway was recording his 50's stuff in stereo....

It fooled a lot of folks back in the day.

Big Sun is ace tho...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D40AdZEMqY8