NVGIB

History

Coming out of the shadows of the 1990's Birmingham University Revue Interval circuit, this band has dabbled in almost every musical style with equally dire results. Each band member is named after either a mammal, a fruit or vegetable, (depending on whether they are a founder member, a late addition or a performer who was never really in the band). Their songs titles such as "Spooky Peanut" and "Lovey Lovey Bonsai and the Bleu Cheese" really set the tone.

The original Not Very Good Interval Band however first got together at a Big Bang Party around 65 billion years ago. The party itself was a flop and they left soon after once they discovered that there were no beers or groupies, just a superdense point.

Members

• Mr Mongoose: Margerine tubs, Bass Guitar, vocals
• Mr Lemur: Guitar, keyboards, bacon chin, vocals
• Mr Satsuma: MIDI brick, fruit bag, vocals
• Mr Wombat: Guitar, keyboards, gas mask, vocals
• Mr Mushroom: was never in the band

"Getting breaded" for a live gig involves woollen weapons - Hat, scarf and party mask are essential.

The Fruit bag is often used for an audience member to select the next song...but they must consume the fruit first. Difficult with a coconut... we recommend a corkscrew to make way for the sap to come out.

We have a couple of instruments too, but we sometimes forget to bring them.

• Dead Sea vinyl boxed set (deleted, decomposed)
• Sargeant Good's Not Very Lonely Interval Club Band (deleted and legally unstable)
• Wombat out of Hell (deleterious)
• Dang Dang Dang Dang, thank you (live) (erased by mistake)
• Bendysisterasparagushead (1994)
• The pope wears rubber (and drinks fresh milk)
• Lovey lovey bonsai and the bleu cheese
• Mole on your face
• Drum competition
• Little fluffy chips
• Wonky shopping trolley (in a rub-a-dub-stylee)
• Doughnut
• Spooky peanut
• Documentary about the NVGIB (Broadcast on BBC Radio Huddersfield)
• It's Dingus Time (1995)
• The florentine overture
• Lunar lander panda
• Spiderman is having a bad day
• That won't fit
• Hava negilah
• Principle european herring port
• Le style est sur la table
• Charge of the shite brigade
• Semolina
• Mr. Fruitseller
• The slippy slidey downward thing about society and stuff
• Devious dad
• Girl with the squint
• The mechanic with the rubbery wrench
• You are an arse
• Death train to nuneaton
• The duck song
• Top chicken
• It's dingus time
• Peru: Spoonraker (2000)
• Peru then, Huddersfield now
• Return to the Beach café and Herpes Clinic
• Calling all the Hebrews
• The Ballad of Mr Shit
• Mission: quitedifficultbutnotifyou'vegotatrailingwindbehindyou
• Go to Peru
• Arrival / Go to Peru (reprise)
• Ché Guevara and Lima Airport
• The Customs Song
• Dr Pippin's Theme 1 / Mr Bennet's Theme 1
• The Big Multimedia Sequence / Dr Pippin's Theme 2
• Peruvian Gig
1. History in a Pot
2. Mary Celeste (part 1)
3. Mary Celeste (part 2)
4. The Ecology Song
• The Lament for Mr Wombat
• Dr Pippin's Theme 3 / Mr Bennet's Theme 2
• The Snack Shack
• Viva Cassava
• Meaty Stick
• Rave Frog
• Lost in the Jungle
• The Binary Song
• The Hazards of Peru
• Mystic Stew (and Beans)
• Airship / Dr Pippin's Theme 4 / Mr Bennet's Theme 3
• Mind Spooning for Beginners
• Spectral Snack items
• Pro-Celebrity Fatal Not Very Good Interval Band Knowledge Quiz
• Dr Pippin's Laboratory
• MIB
• Now that's what I call Unreleasable EP (2000)
• The Magma Trumpet Sessions (2001)
• NVGIB4 (2005-2006)

Career Hight Point

Liver Aid - the band agreed to play on the one condition that Bob Geldof says b*ll*cks live on air.

The NVGIB played a disused church in Kitto Road East London and were pelted with lighted toilet roll throughout. Mr Lemur's bacon chin went rancid in his pocket over the following 3 months due to the trauma.

• All the band have won Nobel prizes at one time or another.
• Mr Mongoose - for pottery
• Mr Satsuma - for obeying the speed limit in a urban area
• Mr Wombat - for crossing dimensions and raising the dead
• Mr Lemur - for anagrams
• Mr Oxo - for a nice beefy flavour
• Recipe for the NVGIB's special PERU Chicken Cake
• A bit like traditional chicken cake.
• Add some peru.
• Don't try this at home, go out into the street.
• Alternatively, get an adult to do it for you, so you can watch telly instead.
• Vegetarian Option: Stay indoors and suck some cardboard
• Mr Mongoose was created by Mr Wombat out of onion rind and orange peel whilst no-one was looking.
• Mr Lemur has had all of his platelets numbered in case of accidents