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The Hamsters were a band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.
They performed their first live show at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, on 1 April 1987, and their last at The Half Moon, Putney on 1 April 2012, exactly 25 years later. They initially played in local pubs with no ambitions to take themselves seriously or to turn professional. As the band ethos is to combine humour with music two members of the original band (now all three) use light-hearted and parodying pseudonyms as stage names. The original line-up was Snail's-Pace Slim on vocals and guitar, Rev Otis Elevator on drums and Andy Farrell on bass. Andy Billups, aka Ms Zsa Zsa Poltergeist, replaced Farrell on bass in 1988.
The band's name was based on a pseudonym used by the Sex Pistols.
Their first performances were in local pubs in and around Southend as a part of the area's well-known R&B scene which had begun in the 1960s; they initially formed for their own amusement and didn't take themselves too seriously. Their bookings quickly started to increase as an increasing number of local music fans requested venues to book them. Eventually it was decided to turn pro and slowly they started getting bookings from venues further afield. During 1988–1990 they released a limited run of four cassette releases of their music until they released their first CD in 1990, titled "Electric Hamsterland" as a parody of the Hendrix "Electric Ladyland" album. There was also a limited run of vinyl LPs of the album. The Hamsters were called Britain's leading interpreters of the music of Jimi Hendrix and ZZ Top. and so were called a blues rock band, although they were not a tribute band "they take the music and push it a little further in the direction originally intended". These covers only made up a small part of their playlist, the majority being Americana.

1  Kent Custom Bike Show
2  Rodent Rock
3  Revenge Of The Killer Hamsters
4  Burnin' Vermin
5  Electric Hamsterland
6  Flasher Hamsters From Hell
7  Hamster Jam
8  The Hamsters
9  Hendrix Memorial Concerts
10 route 666
11 Rodents Rock The Reich
12 Pet Sounds
13 Condensed Hamsters
14 Open All Hours
15 They Only Come Out At Night

Origin Southend on Sea, England
Genres Blues rock, R&B, Americana, rockabilly
Years active 1987–2012
Website www.thehamsters.co.uk
Members Snail's-Pace Slim
Rev Otis Elevator
Ms Zsa Zsa Poltergeist

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