Tofu Love Frogs

In 1989, long before the invention of the clippers and the hair brush, a group of squatters from Hackney started a folk club. This soon morphed into a band. Hours before their first performance, still with no name and no percussionist, they met Chris, who said he would play the percussion only if they performed under the name the “Tofu Love Frogs”, and so the band was born.
Chris “I will only play in a band if it’s called the Tofu Love Frogs”

Their first gigs, playing their unique mixture of folk, punk and booze; with songs about politics and crime delighted the Hackney underclass. They played mostly in squat parties and a few venues around London. Over the next year Paddy and Chris both bought old buses and the show went on the road. Of course at this time England was full of young people taking to the road and no free festival was complete without the Tofus.

Paddy: “my 21st birthday was at Castle Morton Festival. We played on our own stage and on the Wango Reilly stage. I was tripping so much my feet could hardly stay on the floor”