Sleepy People (British rock band)

Sleepy People (sometimes also known as Blue Apple Boy) are a British psychedelic rock band known for eccentric, energetic songs and live performances, as well as for incubating several future members of Britpop band Ultrasound.

Sleepy People should not be confused with The Sleepy People (a New Wave indie rock band from Oregon) or Sleeping People (a Californian progressive rock band).

In both incarnations, the band has featured an eclectic sound blending psychedelic rock, New Wave pop, punk, and progressive rock. Other ingredients included noise-rock, nursery rhymes, ska, Muzak, bossa nova, circus/fairground music, tango and anything which the band members found inspiring. The band was strongly influenced by theatrical British psychedelic band such as Cardiacs and The Monochrome Set, with their lyrics varied from cheerful or sinister nonsense to surreal representations of everyday life and hallucinatory twists on eccentric stories from tabloid newspapers.

Sleepy People began in Wakefield, Yorkshire circa 1989, when various students on Wakefield College's Popular and Commercial Music met and befriended each other. These included songwriter and former coal miner Paul Hope, mature student Andrew "Tiny" Wood, teenaged classical cellist and bass guitarist Richard Green, drummer Andy Peace and singing flute player Rachel Theresa Hope (Paul's wife). Paul Hope and Tiny Wood first teamed up in a band called Step TLV: the two of them plus Rachel Hope would subsequently work together as Pop Kid, who released a lone cassette album called Strange Planets Emerging From Behind The Coal Shed. The loose ensemble of musical friends later relocated to Newcastle, where Wood and Green pursued a music degree. They established themselves in a run-down house in Jesmond, Newcastle (which the members called "Sleepy Hall".)

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