In June 2013, SPG released a cover of Rihanna's "Diamonds", essentially a solo performance by the Spine. Described as "blue matter engineers", the porcelain-white skinned and blue-haired Walter Girls (now called Walter Workers) serve as the robot's caretakers on stage. The Girls started out manning the band's merchandise tables at shows, but were gradually integrated into the group's stage show and backstory. Matt Smith was later named as the group's new official drummer.ĭuring this time, SPG also introduced the characters of the Walter Girls into their shows. On November 2, 2012, Hatchworth made his stage debut with the group at Youmacon in Detroit, Michigan, with Mike Buxbaum of A City Serene filling in on drums. On October 1, it was announced that Sam Luke, then the group's drummer, would become the new robot in the band, "Hatchworth".
On September 24, 2012, the band announced on their Tumblr page that Jon Sprague would no longer be a part of the group. In April 2012 they released a DVD entitled, Steam Powered Giraffe: The DVD (and the Quest For the Eternal Harp of Golden Dreams). īesides their musical endeavors, the band publishes a webcomic and has produced a card game based on characters in their backstory. That year, they were voted Best Live Comedy act (and runner up for Best Family Entertainment act) on San Diego A-List. Their second studio album, entitled The 2¢ Show, was released in May 2012. In late 2011 the band announced the release of a "live" album entitled Live at the Globe of Yesterday's Tomorrow. The group re-released Album One after her departure, removing Burke's vocals and replacing the track "I Am Not Alone" (which featured Burke as the lead singer) with "Ice Cream Parade". Erin Burke left the group to pursue a career in acting that same year. In early 2011 the band released a single, "Honeybee", announcing that it would be on an upcoming second album. It contained the previously released single from May 2009 titled "On Top of the Universe". In October 2009, the band released their first album, Album One. Since their conception, the band has performed at venues including the San Diego County Fair, San Diego Zoo, Wild Animal Park, Legoland California, Ontario Mills, Downtown Disney, and numerous science fiction, fantasy, anime, and steampunk conventions. Later that month they changed their name to just Steam Powered Giraffe.
For their first performance in public they called themselves Steam Powered Giraffe Presents: Peoplebots. Trained in pantomime by Seaport Village mime Jerry "Kazoo" Hager, and with collective backgrounds in clown, theater, music, and visual design, Jonathan Sprague, Erin Burke, and the Bennett twins-Isabella and David-started street busking as quirky robotic characters in January 2008 at Balboa Park, California.
Afterwards, they became members of a local San Diego pantomime group called Troupe SD. The members of Steam Powered Giraffe met while taking Theatre Arts at Grossmont College in El Cajon, California. To date, they have released six studio albums, two live albums, several live concert films, provided the soundtrack for the 2015 video game SteamWorld Heist, and released an official single for the 2016 video game Battleborn.Ĭareer 2008–2011: Formation and early career The Jon, Rabbit, and The Spine in 2011 Although the band underwent several line-up changes, it always focuses primarily on three robot characters (played by the Bennett siblings and a third performer, although the original line-up featured four robots), with several "humans" assisting and performing comedy, music and dancing on stage, and several smaller robots being performed via puppetry or voice acting. Steam Powered Giraffe has its own fictional mythology influenced by the steampunk subculture, with the band members portraying characters both on stage and on record its fictional universe has been explored via several comic books mainly written and drawn by Isabella Bennett. Created and led by twins David Michael Bennett and Isabella Bunny Bennett, the act combines music and improvisational comedy on-stage, although their studio works focus almost solely on music.
Steam Powered Giraffe is an American musical project formed in San Diego in 2008, self-described as "a musical act that combines robot pantomime, puppetry, ballet, comedy, projections, and music".
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