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Carrot Records was a DIY label of Bristol City
Football Club. It managed one single. It issued singles in BCFC-00 numerical
series. Distributed By Released by Bristol City Football Club (1982) Ltd. Shag
Connors & The Carrot Crunchers was a West Country band Shag Connors &
The Carrot Crunchers are Gloucestershire's answer to The Wurzels; a humorous and
fondly remembered band led by the inimitable and sadly missed Shag Connors. The
band is still doing the business in the capable hands of Shag's son Mart, as
Mart Connors & The Carrot Crunchers. Described as a 'country comedy musical
act' singing ribald songs of country life such as Gloucester Calypso, Blame the
Breathalyser and I'm Jealous of the Farmyard Cockerel. The Carrot
Crunchers were perhaps best known for their black cockerel, which Shag taught to
drink beer from a pint glass, and which was an integral part of the act. Story
has it that one night the band played at an army base, and after the gig a bunch
of squaddies killed the cockerel! This might explain why the two pictures in the
gallery show different coloured birds - obviously Shag trained up a replacement.
Although Shag Connors & The Carrot Crunchers didn't achieve the UK chart
success of Adge and The Wurzels, they were nevertheless in demand, appearing on
various TV shows in the 1970s, including The Wheeltappers & Shunters Show,
the David Nixon Show (7/5/73 and 22/4/74), the Sooty Show, and Opportunity
Knocks, which would have put them in front of a massive national audience. Shag
died in 1987 after a long fight against cancer. He is buried in Mayshill
Cemetery. His son Mart (aka Martin 'Scarecrow' Connor) took over the reigns and
the band still performs today.
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