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GU Medicine complete Jagermeister penguin collaboration
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 21 September 2010
You might remember that back in July we reported on an unusual collaboration between rock band GU Medicine and Ricky, an emperor penguin from London Zoo. Brought together by Jagermeister, the band and penguin headed down to Strongroom Studios in Shoreditch (because where could this happen other than Shoreditch?) last month and have now put the results of their efforts online.
GU Medicine’s Ryan Senior said of the recording session: “When I was younger I visited London Zoo and saw the penguins but I never imagined that one day I would actually get the opportunity to record a song with one of them! I thought feeding them would be the closest I ever got! Ricky certainly wasn’t microphone shy, in fact he actually tried to eat it! He squawked his vocal part like one of the true greats!”
Speaking on behalf of Ricky, one of his keepers at London Zoo, Adrian Walls said: “Ricky has a big personality as visitors to our zoo and staff will testify, and although he had never worked with a music group before he was on top form”.
Listen to and download the track they recorded here.
And watch them in action here.
