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Herb Garden release first album in 20 years

By Martin Booth  Wednesday Sep 10, 2014

Bristol acid punksters Herb Garden were the Godfathers of the ‘Redland Scene’ in the late 1980s and a free festival favorite.

As the city was beginning to find its sound, Herb Garden were in their heyday – reaching the height of infamy at the Ashton Court Festival in 1990 when lead singer Carl Graves gave birth to a gnome live on stage using buckets of fake blood and spaghetti.

But after being briefly signed by Warner Bros, the band went their separate ways.

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That is until now as Herb Garden return with  their first album in two decades, Herb Garden Quartet.

Bass player and founder-member Dave Crook said: “Fans understood Herb Garden for our odd, puckish and even gnome-like ways.

“We weren’t easy to pin down and often had to make do with the media term ‘good-time thrash-metallers’. But on reflection I think there’s something here for everyone. Pretty much.”

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