The Peterborough Festival - 2007

The Embankment Weekend

Diego Brown & the Good Fairy

 
Diego Brown and the Good Fairy is an eclectic duo with unusual vocals and clever lyrics, backed by kazoo, swanee whistle, accordion, melodica, bicycle wheel and guitar.
 

Described as:

 
'. . . the Carpenters on a lost weekend in Twin Peaks . . . '
'. . . the talk of the chip van queue at Sidmouth 2000 . . . '
'. . . Good name. Good album. Good start.
Very good english lyrics. Good songs . . .'
(Mathew Priest, Dodgy)
 
'. . . North London's duo brilliante . . . '
'...peering through the window I was transfixed
by this surreal brother/sister duo...'
(Folk Roots)
 

Questions and answers

 
Q. Who are your main influences?
A. You mean apart from Burl Ives, Abba, Bach and The Fall?

Q. Mmm.
A. Our family and friends, schoolteachers and the bloke at the petrol station who used to take his teeth out when he was filling the tank.
 
Q. Where did the name come from?
A. Curry Motors
 
Q. How many Good Fairies can you get in a mini?
A. Depends which model.
 
Songwords
Let me be your scary bear
Let me be your troll
Let me hide under the bridge
When you are walking home
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