04/02 SUTTON COLDFIELD
          beggars bush B73 5BA

05/02 CANTERBURY
              daveee’s birthday weekender @               maiden’s head CT1 3QZ
           all welcome - us on early (6ish?)

17/02 BRIGHTON
              hydrant BN1 4JF

24/02 SOUTH CROYDON
              red deer CR2 6EQ

23/03 LONDON
              fiddlers elbow NW5 3HS

26/03 LONDON
          new cross inn SE14 6AS

30/03 EDINBURGH
          the hive EH1 1LG

31/03 FALKIRK
          20 rocks FK1 1HQ

01/04 GLASGOW
          13th note G1 5QT

04/04 LUTON
          chicagos LU1 2QP

05/04 BASILDON
          castlemayne SS16 5RZ

07/04 GRAYS
          bricklayers arms RM17 6BZ

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USUALLY ON STAGE 9 or 10pm

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KUNT AND THE GANG LONG BIOGRAPHY

2003
Kunt and the Gang is formed by Kunt, following the break up of his previous group, Pubic Cube. They play their first gig at the Castlemayne pub in Basildon. The line-up of Kunt and his puppet sidekick Little Kunt, apparently a lifesize effigy of Kunt’s former parasitic twin, remains to this day.

2004
The band release their debut album I Have A Little Wank And I Have A Little Cry and are somewhat surprisingly hailed by the NME as ‘The New Macc Lads’. Unsurprisingly, considering the NME didn’t like the old Macc Lads, they never follow this up with any further coverage.

2005

Kunt and the Gang play their first gigs outside of Essex, after the public forward links to the songs on their MySpace profile and a small following begins to form.

2006

Kunt and the Gang release a live DVD Viva Bas Vegas and a second album I Have Another Wank And I Have Another Cry. This is the album that spawns Fucksticks, which soon becomes a firm live favourite. The album is played out live on the Wanking In The Woods tour, the band’s first foray around the UK which saw them playing in grotty pubs as far afield as Glasgow, Swansea and Southend.

2007
As their profile grows and more videos are filmed Kunt and the Gang’s YouTube channel becomes ever more popular. Their video for Arranged Bride becomes the first of many videos to be banned by the YouTube censor Nazis.

2008
Kunt and the Gang release their third album One Last Wank And One Last Cry, the final instalment in their wanking and crying trilogy of albums. The release is accompanied later in the year by the Men With Beards (What Are They Hiding?) E.P., the tour for which sees many people grow facial hair or wear false beards along to the shows in celebration. Several usually-bearded attendees also shave their chins in an effort to draw attention away from whatever it was they are obviously up to. Aside from this, the band also perform as guests of drug-addled pop ponce Pete Doherty. The video for Fucksticks is plucked from the internet, edited to within an inch of its life (leaving in all the “Fuckstickses” / taking out all the “Mother’s cunts”) and broadcast on Channel 4’s shoddy low-rent web clip show RudeTube.

2009
Kunt and the Gang release an album of rarities/out-takes entitled Here’s One I Knocked Out Earlier. Along with their hapless manager Mike Gibbons Kunt is the subject of an internet documentary, That’s Inter-tainment, which was sadly never picked up by TV.
Kunt records a YouTube tribute song in memory of Michael Jackson, which is uploaded the day after the singer’s untimely death and leads to the band receiving death threats from mental American Jacko fans who are unhappy with some of the content, despite it being factually accurate.
2009 sees Kunt and the Gang’s first appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, teaming up with Laughing Horse comedy for 10 sold out shows (at least, 10 free shows which were full-up). Kunt plays to a packed crowd at Rebellion punk festival in Blackpool.
Kunt and the Gang record their first cover version, a take on Katy Perry’s I Kissed A Girl, entitled I Sucked Off A Bloke, which is complimented by a gritty video notable for bringing bukkake to an Essex building site.
Kunt and the Gang finish off the year with a flourish, getting booked to play the main stage at The Big Reunion Festival at Butlins in Skegness then get hauled off half way through their set on the say so of Butlins’ management.

2010
A ‘Greatest Minor Internet Hits’ package Complete Kunt is released, featuring the fans’ favourite songs from Kunt and the Gang’s previous four albums and a couple of new tracks. Complete Kunt is also released on DVD bringing together all the band’s videos, some of which had been banned by the YouTube censor Nazis for being too sexy.
Kunt and the Gang perform all their ‘Greatest Minor Internet Hits’ in 25 consecutive free late night shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to packed audiences.
In the Autumn Kunt releases Shannon Matthews: The Musical, a full-length audio musical based on the disappearance of the Yorkshire schoolgirl, performed by a small company of amateur performers assembled by Kunt. This features 11 brand new songs, and in true Kunt style manages to name-check everyone from Maddie McCann to Papa Bouba Diop.
A Christmas Facebook campaign to get Kunt and the Gang’s Use My Arsehole As A Cunt into the top 40 sees the band’s first and only venture into political satire, as a new version Use My Arsehole As A Cunt (The Nick Clegg Story) is recorded, which light-heartedly pokes fun at the compromises the Liberal Democrats made to be part of the coalition government. It is mysteriously removed from iTunes on the week of release but still, despite no mainstream press or radio, reaches number 66 in the Official UK Chart.

2011

Kunt and the Gang start a new venture, an occasional online series entitled Perverts On The Internet. Each episode incorporates a new song embedded in a far-fetched story of the exploits of Kunt, his hapless manager Mike Gibbons and the staff and regulars of their local pub, the Stem And Helmet in Basildon.
To commemorate the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Kunt and the Gang record a new version of their greatest minor internet hit Fucksticks, cheekily referencing the various Royal misdemeanours and scandals like Fergie’s toe-sucking incident, The Duke of Edinburgh’s casual racism and Prince Harry’s Nazi fancy dress faux pas. This starts another Facebook campaign to get the song in the top 40 although, despite massive underground support, sales irregularities mean the song peaks at number 63.

On April 28th 2011, the day before the Royal Wedding, despite having well over a million views and several thousand subscribers, Kunt and the Gang’s YouTube account is deleted. This may not be unrelated to the Fucksticks (Royal Wedding Souvenir Version) video, which features various members of the Royal Family with their private parts pixelated, sexually satisfying themselves in time with the music.

Kunt and the Gang play to packed crowds at Rebellion and Download festivals and again return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where they play 23 free shows and win the Malcolm Hardee Award (not the one for being funny or any good, the other one). This is awarded after Kunt and the Gang, rather than print and distribute promotional flyers, print 5000 stickers of a crudely drawn penis and testicles which, when given out to the crowd each night appear all over the posters of other comedians. ‘Cockgate’, as it is known, becomes a big talking point of the festival and several comedians are known to be very irate about seeing their face with a winky stuck on it.
In October they release the album Hurry Up And Suck Me Off Before I Get Famous, which is already being hailed as the band’s “least shit album to date”. This is quickly followed up by the long overdue Christmas album Kunt and the Gang Kiss You Under The Camel Toe.

2012
After eight years, and mainly by old-fashioned word of mouth with only the occasional crumb of media coverage, Kunt and the Gang is an uncompromising minor underground success story in true Punk tradition. Kunt himself is proud to have become Basildon’s most famous export - apart from Depeche Mode, Vince, Alison Moyet, Denise Van Outen, Terry Marsh and Big Brother housemate Brian (black, not gay).

KUNT AND THE GANG SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Kunt and the Gang are responsible for some of the web’s wrongest songs and videos.
 

With over a million YouTube views Kunt and the Gang has become Basildon’s most famous export - apart from Depeche Mode, Vince, Alison Moyet, Denise Van Outen, Terry Marsh and Brian from Big Brother (black, not gay).

In recent years Kunt and the Gang have played sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won the Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award for encouraging people to deface pictures of comedians with stickers of a crudely drawn penis and testicles. They have featured on Channel 4’s shoddy low-rent internet clip show RudeTube, won Album Title Of The Year in NME, performed as guests of drug-addled pop ponce Pete Doherty and received death threats from mental Michael Jackson fans over their YouTube tribute. They have been banned from Butlins, had their YouTube channel closed down and scored two of the most inappropriately titled top 75 UK hit singles of all time with their tracks Fucksticks and Use My Arsehole As A Cunt.

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"Life-affirmingly puerile stuff, set to one of the most infectious and upbeat melodies imaginable."
CHARLIE BROOKER IN THE GUARDIAN

"A one man filth machine..."
BIZARRE

"… jaw-dropping, potty mouthed style."
NME