The
Honkin’ Hep Cats
The
Honkin’ Hep CatsMost of the Big Buzzard Boogie Band played at some time or other with this bunch of lunatics.
The Hep Cats were active between 1988 and 1997. They were regulars at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Cork Jazz Festival and The 100 Club, and became notorious for spontaneously hilarious performances. Sometimes involving fish.
One day some of their exploits may be catalogued here - there's a huge Hep Cats archive which could one day be unleashed! If you're interested in this and would like to know more, please
In the meantime, if you want to remind yourself what they sounded like, or hear them for the first time, here are some MP3s which you're free to download for personal use. If you do, please send us a mail.
| Hep Cat Boogie | MP3 | |
| Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby? | MP3 | |
| You Stole My Wife, You Horse Thief | MP3 | |
| When Banana Skins Are Falling, I'll Come Sliding On Home To You | MP3 | |
| There Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens | MP3 | |
| Cleanhead Blues | MP3 | |
| The Pump Song (You Can't Tell The Depth Of The Well By The Length Of The Handle On The Pump) | MP3 | |
| I Do It 'Cos It Feels Good | MP3 | |
| Buona Sera Senorita | MP3 | |
| I Want A Big Fat Mama (With Meat Shakin' On The Bone) | MP3 | |
| Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat | MP3 |
The band spent the afternoon in a BBC studio, and in the spare time between a rehearsal and the live show that evening, knocked out the following tunes.
| Intro by Subversive Steve Kershaw | MP3 | |
| Interview - Mary Costello meets the Hep Cats | MP3 | |
| Bloodshot Eyes | MP3 | |
| Boogie In The Barnyard | MP3 | |
| Feelin' Happy (take 2) | MP3 | |
| Feelin' Happy | MP3 | |
| Good Mornin' Judge (take 2) | MP3 | |
| Good Mornin' Judge | MP3 | |
| Have You Got The Gumption | MP3 | |
| Hey Bartender | MP3 | |
| I Want Sea Food Mama | MP3 | |
| I WantSeaFood Mama(take 2) | MP3 | |
| Is You Is | MP3 | |
| Jingle02BetterMusic | MP3 | |
| Jump Jive And Wail (take 2) | MP3 | |
| Jump Jive And Wail | MP3 | |
| Kept On Sittin' On it | MP3 | |
| MaryCostelloJingle01 | MP3 | |
| MaryCostelloJingle03 | MP3 | |
| MaryCostelloJingle04 | MP3 | |
| Nervous | MP3 | |
| Pettin' And Pokin' | MP3 | |
| Push Ka Pee Shee Pie | MP3 | |
| Red Light | MP3 |