The Burning Effigies

Founding members Jeff Jones, Doug Banville and Peter Cheevers, merged from a variety of bands such as The Prophets, Beatroot and D’Angelus. Paul Bermingham joined in 2003, previously having played with The Nude. 

They began writing and compiling songs for their first album Pipe Dream in 2003. A decision was made to build their own studio to record their album. The album was created during the weekends and evenings, due to grim day jobs required to finance the whole operation. 

The band produced and engineered the album and used a whacky range of equipment for recording from cheap transistor “joke” equipment to gourmet German valve devices and supercomputers. They have been known to pack up their studio equipment into a couple of cars and record in creaky houses in the middle of nowhere. Their studio changed location three times during the recording to further complicate matters.

Pipe Dream was critically acclaimed and a number of the songs from it got featured on US TV shows One Tree Hill, The Ghost Whisperer, Las Vegas, Mens in Trees and more. 

After Pipe Dream the band went their separate ways for a few years and hooked up again in 2008 to begin recording the epic "Stuck in Limbo". The lads were joined on this project by Nigerian born Olu Adeniran, a saxophone player and vocalist from Lagos. The Afrobeat influence can be heard in such tracks as "Stuck in Limbo" and "Conspiracy" and Olu's tuneful Highlife style comes across in "Yemojah".