The Rude Mechanicals

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Courageous Knights of Absurd Rock, this five-piece are fronted by the humorous yet frightening starlet that is Miss Roberts.

Exuding a personality resembling a peculiar hybrid of Mae West and Bette Davis' Baby Jane, her lyrics focus on a variety of subjects such as DIY flying and the imagined encroachment of the neighbours.

"They're taking video footage of the thoughts in my head - and toe sucking" (Lee McFadden of the Morning Star).

"Oh no, please no! No, no no no no! I surrender." Olivier Pasquet

"the maddest and arguably the most interesting group to come out of Cambridge in decades." Cambridge Evening News.

"Something like the Bonzos becoming a Captain Beefheart tribute band"