Comic 41 - Too close to, er, the bone.
15th Nov 2021, 8:00 AM in Dunestock
Too close to, er, the bone.
Transcript Panel 1
On stage:
Band closes its set.
Singer: Thank you and good… afternoon I guess? We are Catboy Café, remember our name! Er, we're selling CDs outside.

Panel 2.
At the food stands:
Phil the milkman is selling tonnes of milk.
Attendee 7: I read a rumour that they'd booked Trousersnake for this festival.
Attendee 8: I don't think this festival can afford Trousersnake.
Phil: Guess there weren't enough trousers for the snake! Heh heh heh!

Panel 3
On stage:
New band appears.
Singer: Greetings, nudies! We are Echidna Shrubbery and we're gonna play some songs for you. Actually, we've only got half an hour so it's only going to be one song. Let's get going.

Panel 4
In the audience:
Tess, to Abby: Ah, neo-neo-prog!
Abby: That's… maybe too many chords.

Panel 5:
Ernst is on the phone with a member of the Blues Dads while Trudy and several other staff people (Klop and Hafid?) are listening in.
Mac Truck, the bassist: You tracked down my 90-year-old mother and made her worry about me! Who does that?
Ernst: A desperate, desperate man, Mr. Truck.
Eisso: Who is this?
Trudy: Mac Truck.
Eisso: MAC TRUCK?
Trudy: Bassist from The Blues Dads.

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ReinderDijkhuis 15th Nov 2021, 8:00 AM edit delete
ReinderDijkhuis
Echidna Shrubbery is obviously a pun on Porcupine Tree; someone else had already done "Hedgehog Forest" and I thought I'd go one further.
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ReinderDijkhuis 15th Nov 2021, 8:21 AM edit delete reply
ReinderDijkhuis
I missed a trick by not letting the Catboy Café singer say they're selling cassettes.
ReinderDijkhuis 20th Nov 2021, 6:33 PM edit delete reply
ReinderDijkhuis
Also, it turns out there's a webcomic on Webtoons by the name of Catboy Café, as well as a now-defunct Mastodon server. I was unaware of these before; I had just heard the phrase in a Discord channel and ran with it as a potential synthwave alter ego for myself and a good name for a fictional band on the festival stage.
area5.1 15th Nov 2021, 1:55 PM edit delete reply
area5.1
You had me at Trouser Snake - love it! Is that a huge floppy disc in the final frame?
ReinderDijkhuis 15th Nov 2021, 6:13 PM edit delete reply
ReinderDijkhuis
It's a tablet. Without colors, I have to make some choices on whether or not to render things like the slate grey that is the default color for most tablets even today.

I really thought "Trousersnake" was too easy. It's not like David Coverdale hasn't been perfectly clear about what the name of his band refers to.
burstlion 15th Nov 2021, 3:45 PM edit delete reply
Caroline's plan worked! That's awesome!
Ha ha, I too love the name Trousersnake, that's delightful XD

Echidna Shrubbery being a gag name based on another band tickles me! I'm 50/50 curious and worried to find out what Porcupine Tree sounds like XD

Fantastic page!
ReinderDijkhuis 20th Feb 2023, 11:30 PM edit delete reply
ReinderDijkhuis
As part of my participation in February Album Writing Month 2023, I've written some lyrics that Echidna Shrubbery may have been performing during their set: https://write.fawm.org/songs/20205

(Link may disappear after FAWM ends)
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