Dusty Cowshit - Coventry & West Ham (1995)

Dusty Cowshit has since many years, back to the golden age of Billy the Kid, been a colourful feature and a great hit all over the country of Norway, from the sunny and beautiful small town Farsund in the south to the friendly but freezing Longyearbyen at Svalbard, as well as some other spectacular places in Europe like Malta, Palermo Sicily and Helsinki Finland. The band has played hundreds of concerts and performed on numbers of TV-shows, and is famous for their hilarious and first-class live shows.

More or less as an internal joke, the band was started in the year 1991 as a costume party live act. The joke was very well received, and the hay ball started to roll. Some weeks after the first gig the 9 clownish cowboys tied their horses to a Hells Angels prospect club’s establishment in Oslo, after a couple of days challenging ride from their hometown Moss. Thanks to the bartender’s vigilance, Dusty Cowshit got through the night just about alive. He was able to warn his fellow biker friends that the band draws their cap pistols on the intro to the first song, so that no one returned the gun fire. This “one night stand up” is fortunately still alive…

So what is Dusty Cowshit? Well, it’s a 9 man heavy music band. In a real vulgar-sparkling-cowboy-polka-orchestra way it’s all about entertaining you with a great live act on unusual instruments playing songs you may have heard before. Some of the instruments played are suitcase, spoons, saw, washboard and dried beanstalks in addition to the more common Prairie sound of banjo, fiddle, mandolin, harmonica, accordion and off Mexico-trumpet. If this turns you on, you will simply love Dusty Cowshit.