#4 Last gig at The Sporting Club

Tonight we will be missing Ross, bass player, but hopefully Darcy will fill the low end with the sleazy sound of his saxophone. We are planning to play a few new covers.

Record speed of 177km/h.

These days Pigeon Fancier Societies have seasonal shows where proud owners parade their pigeons who are judged on poise, tail, crest, size, feather texture and colour. There are certian rules in competition such as the Pigeon can't shake it's neck while being judged. I imagine that would be a real challenge for this prehistoric bird.

Here are some facts to show pigeons have been used for than just show:
The Egyptians and the Persians used carrier pigeons 3,000 years ago. They also were used to proclaim the winner of the Olympics. Messenger pigeons were used as early as 1150 in Baghdad and also later by Genghis Khan.
The homing pigeon is a variety of domestic pigeon derived from the Rock Pigeon selectively bred to find its way home over extremely long distances.The wild rock pigeon has an innate homing ability, meaning that it will generally return to its own nest and its own mate. This made it relatively easy to breed from the birds that repeatedly found their way home over long distances. Flights as long as 1800 km (1,118 miles) have been recorded by birds in competition pigeon racing. Their average flying speed over moderate distances 500 miles is around 80 km/h (50 mph), but speeds of up to 177 km/h (110 mph) have been observed in top racers for short distance 100 miles.
Lifted from Wikipedia. I love it.

The last Pigeon Strut at the 'Sporting Club'

The 'Wiggle Pigeon' finale. I made an excited drunken statement of dressing like a pigeon for the last instalment of the Sporting Club residency. My pigeon of the week (pictured above) has an exciting stance and great feathery feet. It's not the kind of costume you can make from scouring Savers, but i will make sure no birds are harmed in the creation of next weeks outfit. If anyone else comes with feathers i will be sure to give you something lovely.

Doin the Pigeon. An early infuence.

#3 Sporting Club - Thursday 11th

We were joined by Darcy McNolte last night and played the best set we've ever done. There was some real blues shaking in the'Wiggle Pigeon' song and the crowd seemed to enjoy the new 'Work Song'. The 'Prince' influence has been noted which is a nice departure from our usual late 50's sounds.
There were no dancers this week, perhaps due to the absence of local rebel rouser Gray Taylor, but the music was acknowledged, as in some people said they loved and it and someone people said they didn't like it.
Next week i hope to pull our our cover of 'The Coasters song "Shimmy" and maybe get some more of that low down dirty blues that would make a Pigeon Wiggle.

Sporting Club #2

Coming tomorrow to the Sporting club in Brunswick, at 7pm, to play music.

Homing Pigeons

This is a stamp from early pigeon gram service

And here is a soldier with message and carrier pigeon during World War I.

A bus converted into a pigeon loft in Northern France and Belgium

Sporting Club #1

 2nd August
#1 of the Sporting Club Residency
The core group of Steph (guitar), Ross( double bass) and Gareth( drummer) had a great crowd on Thursday night. Starting the night with my old favourite 'jump and jive' then moving through to more bluesy ballads and rocksteady numbers. By half 7 the rhythms were rolling and some tail feathers jumped up to shake and strut through 'The Boogaloo' and 'Killing Floor'..We threw our new songs in the square 'The Jaguar' and 'Shoop, shoop Carrie' and they shuffled along nice. The king bar man Josh served me to stumps, despite teachers college he had to go to in the morning and it didnt rain on the walk home.
Come down if you wanna listen or dance a bit to some melbourne grown rhythm and blues.

Wiggle Pigeon the band

A band playing rhythm and blues and music, as a three, four, five or six piece.
Steph Brett  -Guitar and Vocals
Gareth Eunson - Drums and vocals
Mr. Destruction - Double Bass
Paul Dornau - Keyboards
Darcy McNolte - Saxophones