65 years in the making and they've never been so good !

Pete (vocals) 1973
Crafty (drums) 1973
Sid (lead guitar) 1973
Jo (base) 1973
Pete still kicking
Crafty still sitting
Sid still picking
Jo still very still


DISCOGRAPHY



Bats in the belfry
(released 1968)

BATS IN THE BELFRY

Crazy as a loon
Moonstruck on a cloudy night
Straight jacket
As mad as a hatter
Hob Nob
Everybody likes my brain
Carrot juice diet

Bats in the belfry
(US cover)


Birds of a feather
(released 1970)

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Pigs will fly
Cat among the pigeons
Under the cow’s wing
Singing under the poultry cross
Chicken coop
Come fly my kite
Gander Street
June 1970 : The band is turned down for two major festivals. In frustration they decide to set up their own "British Woodstock" in a field near Glastonbury. "At the time there were more cows than fans" says Pete "It's a shame no one remembers we started it".


Saresberie
(released 1971)

SARESBERIE

Old tales of New Sarum
Rolling Stonehenge
Your wall is too high
We’ll dance around the Westbury rabbit
Rolling Stonehenge (symphonic version)

On the US album : I want to be a star and breed rabbits

Saresberie
(US cover)


Look at me look at you
(released 1971)

LOOK AT ME LOOK AT YOU

Twice better
You don’t always see what you get
A blind man who played cards
I love your nose
My stomach bleeds for you
I don’t mind washing your socks
I’ll sleep in the bath
March 1971 : drummer Branic Hottin dies in a gardening accident. Crafty Branigan joins the band.
April 1971 : Singer Pete Browning meets Princess Melanie while on a cruise in Montevidelpo. For her, he writes the songs of "Look at me, look at you".


All the tea in China
(released 1972)

ALL THE TEA IN CHINA

Remember, remember the fourteenth of September
Tea for you too
Lemon and sugar
Honeymoon in an air balloon
Chinese china shop
Crossroads Milk Market
Sainsbury butter biscuits
June 1972 : Sid is arrested for disordely conduct.
September 14 : Pete marries Melanie de Montevidelpo. They divorce in December.
October/November : First American tour


Nightmare
(released 1973)

NIGHTMARE

Sleepless nights
Life on Elm Street
Your bed will self destroy in five seconds
Foot and mouth disease
I dreamed of Saint Alphege
Written on the ceiling
Skeletons in the closet
Although the band released two albums, that year, the first cracks appeared in the group. Unhappy with the choice of songs, Pete decided to go solo. The summer tour was cancelled. Crafty lost all his rabbits in a flu epidemic.


Live Loonies
(released 1973)

LIVE LOONIES

Welcome to the chow chow
Loonies miss for tunes
My clock doesn’t count the minutes
Remember the days
Flogging a dead horse
Glastonbury mud (smells sweeter)
Lots of fans… but no air-conditioning
The released of Live Loonies was decided by producer Bo Koodfric against the band's advice to compensate for the financial cost of their cancellation of the summer tour.


Professor
(released 1973)

PROFESSOR

Teachers
Waiting for the bell
Golding taught here
Teachers teach, birds sing and I bite my nails
There’s’ no homework when she’s gone
Carry on like this and you’ll end up as a rock singer
A blackboard full of blues
PROFESSOR (Pete's solo album) was released in July and was greatly responsible for the band's splitting up the following year.

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Between a rock and a hard place
(released 1974)

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
(The farewell album)
Severed hand
You can leave, just don't take my suitcase
I’ll miss your chicken soup
The mud smells sweeter at Glastonbury
Don’t blame me I’m only the guitar player
Spill the beans
Tomorrow, too sorrow
The band split up in February 1975. Each member of the group went his own way. Pete kept singing. Crafty resumed his rabbit breeding. Sid became an inventor (with little success) and Jo opened a vegetarian chicken soup cafe.


Blue
(released 2007)

BLUE
(The come back album)
Out of the blues
I am a pod person from the planet Earth
Re-union
Long time no see
Let's have a shoe cup full of beer
Nobody likes an unfinished story
When I’m dead I want to push the lillies
It's been over 30 years and they're still alive and well. Actually, they've never been better.
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LOONY DIMLIGHTS and other minor BIOGRAPHIC DETAILS
Branic Hottin’s death remains as a blind spot in the band’s history. Branic apparently committed suicide by running himself over with a lawnmower while the rest of the group was digging the weeds on a gardening weekend. The police closed the case without further conclusions.
On several occasions the Loony Heads tried to highlight their part in the prehistory of the Glastonbury Festival. Unfortunately the farmer they rented the field from has been long dead now. A neighbour did complain about the noise, at the time, but no record of it was found.
Sid's attempt at being an inventor failed miserably at the BIRMINGHAM TECK FAIR when his gas guitar exploded after playing only a few notes. No one was hurt.
In February 1978, Jo was arrested at Madrid airport for possession of gooseberry jelly. He pleaded that the substance was for personal use and was released after a doctor’s prescription was faxed from the UK. The jelly was confiscated.
In 2000 Pete Browning decided to sue film producer Ridley Scott for using the concept of his PROFESSOR album in the motion picture GLADIATOR. It turned out that Pete couldn’t produce enough evidence and the case was dropped.
Sid and super model Noemie Mollet have been seen dining out together at Jo’s vegetarian chicken soup restaurant. “We’re not here for the meals” said Sid but no more was heard.


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TALES OF THE BLUE RABBIT
Crafty Branigan
A collection of short stories for children aged 6 to 10

Dream of the blue rabbit.
The white hart who lived on a roof.
The goldfish who wanted to live in a council flat.
... and many more


HOW I KICKED THE YELLOW SOCKS ADDICTION by Jo Thistleweed
Number one on all the best sellers lists.

Acclaimed by the national press:
A personal ordeal, an everyday struggle and a lesson for life - The Nuneaton Echo
What the foreign reviews say :
Das echt beste und geilste Buch des Jahres – Die Berliner Morgenpost
¡ El mas mejor super demasiado genial ! – La voz que corre de Madrid
Hyper génial super trop top – Le chronickeur littéraire
Bestum maximum, amen – Observatory Biblicum


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IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Everybody asks me about my vegetarian chicken soup. Well, it’s made exclusively from vegetarian chickens. JO

Once I had a rabbit who thought he was a chicken. He crossed the road and that was it. CRAFTY

It’s not my fault if I have Einstein’s body and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s brain. I sincerely wish it could be the other way around. JO

I said “I think you’re marvellous”.
She said “Me too”.
“Really ?”, I said.
“Yes, I think I’m marvellous”. PETE (Close encounter with Melanie de Montevidelpo)

A fan : “Can you stretch the music a bit more ?”
Pete : “We’re a rock band, not a rubber band.”


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