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Steam Powered Giraffe

Steam Powered Giraffe
Steam Powered Giraffe Members in 2017.jpg
Steam Powered Giraffe in January 2017. From left to right: David Michael Bennett, Bryan Barbarin, and Isabella "Bunny" Benett.
Background information
Origin San Diego, California, United States
Genres Steampunk, folk rock, vaudeville
Years active 2008-present
Associated acts Rumbledore
Website www.steampoweredgiraffe.com
Members David Michael Bennett
Isabella "Bunny" Bennett
Bryan Barbarin
Steve Negrete
Chelsea Penyak
Camille Penyak
Past members Sam Luke
Erin Burke
Jon Sprague
Michael Philip Reed
Matt Smith

Steam Powered Giraffe (SPG) is a musical project formed in San Diego in 2008 that is popular in the steampunk subculture. Led by twins David Michael Bennett and Isabella "Bunny" Bennett, and long-time friend from college Bryan Barbarin, the act combines pantomime, sketches, pop culture references, improvised comedic dialogue, and original music of various genres.

The members of Steam Powered Giraffe met while taking Theatre Arts at Grossmont College. Afterwards, they became members of a local San Diego pantomime group called Troupe SD. Trained in pantomime by Seaport Village mime Jerry "Kazoo" Hager, and with collective backgrounds in clown, theater, music, and visual design, Jonathan Sprague, Erin Burke (a fellow pantomime artist) and the Bennett twins—Bunny and David—started street busking as quirky robotic characters (at the time known as Peoplebots) in January 2008 at Balboa Park, California. Due to personal reasons, Erin Burke left the group in 2011.

Since their conception, the band has performed at venues including the San Diego County Fair the San Diego Zoo, the Wild Animal Park, Legoland California, Ontario Mills, The Queen Bee's Art & Cultural Center, and at numerous Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and steampunk conventions.

In October 2009, the band released their first album, Album One. It contained the previously released single from May 2009 titled "On Top of the Universe", along with the hit "Brass Goggles" in 2009. In early 2011 the band released a single, "Honeybee", announcing that it would be on an upcoming second album, and in late 2011 the band announced the release of an interim "live" album entitled Live at the Globe of Yesterday's Tomorrow. On 30 October 2011, the band was mentioned by name in the comic strip Luann. The strip showed the title character and two of her friends dressed in steampunk attire, going out to attend a SPG concert. The title frame, which didn't appear in the online version but only in print, showed a giraffe's head and neck with steam escaping its ears and nostrils. Also, their music can often be heard on a number of steampunk radio broadcasts that stream worldwide, such as The Clockwork Cabaret. The band's song "Electricity Is In My Soul" is available on the Rock Band Network.


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