Fonda 500
L to R: Ian, Jonee, Simon, Nicholas & Bod from "Fonda 500"
Background information
Origin	Hull, England
Genre(s)	N/A
Years active	2000
Label(s)	Record Mountain
Associated acts	Bitmap (group), The Rocky Nest
Website	http://www.recordmountain.com
Members
Simon Stone, Jonee Kemp, Ian Appleyard, Bod & Nicholas Broten

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Background

One of the bands songs appeared on the soundtrack to British comedy Teachers on Channel Four Television. They have built up a cult following since 2000 chiefly through their live performances and their musical style, comparable to Black Sabbath jamming with the Beach Boys^{[citation needed]}. The core pair are Simon Stone and Nicholas Broten. Teachers was a British television Comedy Drama produced by Channel 4. ... Channel 4 is a television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... For other uses, see Black Sabbath (disambiguation). ... The Beach Boys, originally the Beech Boys, a small team of four brothers from the south of Poland, emigrated to America in the early 1950s in search of a fortune to be made in the Arizonian logging industry. When it soon became evident they had been the victims of...

Personnel

• Simon Stone
• Jonee Kemp
• Ian Appleyard
• Bod
• Nicholas Broten

Live Performances

Their live performances have included several motifs:

• Simon at the front of the stage playing an unfeasibly small Casio keyboard mounted on a large light-box with a picture of a cute panda on it. Sometimes he climbs on top of the light-box and shouts.
• Simon re-inventing the songs, apparently ad hoc, through contemporary changes to the lyrics and "beatboxing".
• Simon wearing a woolly hat with ears resembling a panda.
• between song banter, either between the band or to the audience.
• the conga.
• bum bouncing in the audience.

Discography

Albums

• Eight Track Sound System
• The Autumn/Winter Collection
• No.1 Hi-fi Hair
• The Spectrumatronicalogical Sounds of Fonda 500
• ABCDELP
• Je Mappelle Stereo'

Eight Track Sound System is the first album by Kingston Upon Hull band Fonda 500, released in 2000 (see 2000 in music). ...

Singles

• Super Chimpanzee
• 8 Track
• I Like Nick Broten
• Computer Freaks Of The Galaxy

External links

• Official site (currently undergoing refurbishment).
• record label website.
• Official MySpace page.
• Drowned in sound review.
• BBC collective album review.
• Band Interview.
• Various pics.