Abdoujaparov

Abdoujaparov are a punk band formed on October 19 1998 by ex-Carter USM guitarist Les Carter (aka Fruitbat). Abdoujaparov's musical foundations are the joyous and shambolic influences of 1977 punk rock. The music is raucous, fast and sometimes a bit country. The lyrics are rude, tender, funny and sometimes just plain bad.

So far four EPs, a single and 2 albums have been released on Spinach Records. A compilation CD featuring tracks from the first 3 EPc was released by Pop Gun in Australia. The band has toured the UK, Germany, Australia and America.

Les and guitarist Richy Crockford have recorded and toured under the name iDou, which consists of the two of them playing guitars over a backing track supplied by an iPod Shuffle.

The band are named after a professional cyclist Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, from Uzbekistan.

Discography

Albums
*Air Odeon Disco Pub (2002)
*Cycle Riot History Gang (2007)

Singles / EPs
*Punk Confetti (1998)
*Maria's Umbrella (1999)
*Baby Food (1999)
*Just Shut Up (2000)
*Emergency Medical Hologram (2001)
*Well Oiled (2003)
*Ultra Cool (2005)

Misc
*Djamolidine (1999)
*Live At The Astoria (2002)
*Free Bonus CD (2002)
*Cycle Riot History Gang Bonus Disk (2007)

iDou
*Perfect Hands (2006)

External links

* [http://www.carterusm.co.uk/ Carter USM family]
* [http://www.abdou.co.uk/ Abdoujaparov homepage]