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GU Medicine and penguin collaborate for Jagermeister
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 20 July 2010
After the success of the collaboration between Fightstar and Lethal Bizzle, which saw the two acts write and record the song ‘For All Out Enemies’ for Jagermeister’s first ‘Serve Ice Cold’ session, the drinks brand has announced its next music pairing. This time around, GU Medicine will be recording a track with, er, a penguin.
Ricky, a rockhopper penguin from London Zoo, will be heading down to the Strongroom Studios in Shoreditch for two days at the beginning of next month to record his ‘vocals’. It’s not clear if Ricky has yet had any thoughts on what he might sing about, but it seems all involved are very excited.
Ryan Senior from GU Medicine told CMU: “When I was younger I visited London Zoo and saw the penguins but I never imagined that one day I would actually get the opportunity to record a song with one of them! I thought feeding them would be the closest I ever got! Bring it on!”
One of Ricky’s keepers, Adrian Walls added: “Ricky has a big personality as visitors to our zoo and staff will testify, and although he has never worked with a music group before I’m sure he will be in fine voice on 3 Aug”.
GU Medicine are not the first band to work with a bird on vocals, death metal band Hatebeak is fronted by a parrot named Waldo. An album from them is reportedly being prepared for release right now. In the meantime, check out such classics as ‘God Of Empty Nest’ on this MySpace fanpage: www.myspace.com/beak666
