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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

      $1 NZD  or more

     

  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Need some good old-fashioned tapey goodness? This is what you're after. A beautiful blue cassette of the Atlantean Night Tourists album. Leave it lying around at work so people know how damn special you are, that you have a piece of plastic-y Turkby art!
    Limited to 50 copies universe-wide. OMG, how much more special could it get than that?

    Includes digital version of the album.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Atlantean Night Tourists via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    edition of 50 

      $10 NZD

     

  • The first volume in a new magical musical mystery fantasy series by Bing Turkby.

    Paperback, 174 pages, 20.3 x 12.7cm. ISBN 978-1537327785.

    The story:
    A guitarist dies, after writing the best riff of his life. As far as the Police are concerned, the death appears to be due to natural causes. But to Jareth McHendry, it is the sinister work of an evil Musomancer, and the start of a powerful spell that will ruin mankind.
    Is Jareth a deluded eccentric, or is he the only person standing between humanity and catastrophic devastation? Can he track down the evil Musomancer?And if he does, will he be able to keep his guitar in tune long enough to save the world?

    Includes unlimited streaming of Atlantean Night Tourists via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 2 days

      $15 NZD or more 

     

about

Originally written for my cousin's band The Flannels, I changed some words in the chorus so I could steal the song back for the Bing Turkby Ensemble. The lyrics tell of life on the road with a famous rock band. Or what I imagine it would be like, anyway.

lyrics

Playing in towns that all start to look the same
Sleeping in the van is all part of the game

Chorus:
To get to the top, you've got to use the right channels
To get to the top, you've got to work the angles

Waking in the evening, feel like going to bed
Adrenaline kicks, and we all start rocking instead

Chorus

Gratuitous, yet mercifully short, guitar solos

Well now, we thank this crowd for rocking with us
Thank you! Thank you!
Soon we'll all be loading the tour bus
Tour bus! Tour bus!

Chorus

credits

from Atlantean Night Tourists, released December 1, 2016

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The Bing Turkby Ensemble Palmerston North, New Zealand

In 1996 the Bing Turkby Ensemble was one man, a wig and a tape deck. The band now features this cast of miscreants: Tyrone T. Blowhard (sax), Slapskins McBOOOm (drums), and Ajax MacDeth (bass).

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