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The 2 Canoes

The 2 Canoes were an alternative band from Edinburgh, Scotland, during the years 1981 to circa 1986. Operation mainly as a four piece, the unit could contain up to as many as eight people, not including their 'freaky dancer', a man dressed in a loincloth who would cavort and frolic through audiences at gigs.

The core unit comprised guitarists/songwriters Vince Gasparini and Brian Watson, supplemented by Donny 'Sprinky' Coutts on bass and Brian 'Humpy' Hiroz on drums. Often performing naked, the band played mainly in the Edinburgh area before drugs, sleaze, law enforcement agencies and general malaise set in and the group foundered. Though it has been resurrected many times over the decades in various non-original forms, the band has never recaptured the glory days of the early 1980s