Biography
A surf-rock instrumental project on Cordelia Records. They have released one album, 'Nico and the Velvet Underground', which covers 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' in its entirety (although with a reversed track listing). They occasionally appear on one-off recordings or Cordelia compilations, covering standards like 'Layla' or 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'.
A review on the Active Listener blog contains most of the known information about the Kettering Vampires:
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"When Andy Warhol styled impresario Alan Jenkins found a demo on his desk from The Kettering Vampires (previously Otter Sandwich) one fated morning, musical history was (almost) born. The band (Lenny Ninja Snake on lead guitar and ostrich guitar, Neil Ska on prepared piano and ostrich prepared piano, the superbly named Jack Darkness on bass guitar and prepared bass guitar and Minnie Bannister on drums, ostrich spoons and prepared ostrich spoons) were poised to create a musical masterpiece in this, an instrumental surf version of some obscure and previously unheard of album named 'Nico And The Velvet Underground'. Despite Jenkins putting together a stage show extravaganza for the band called The Unexpected Vegetable Incident ( 'basically we projected cabbages over the band and sometimes a man in leather trousers would come on and juggle onions; the press loved it, it was a big hit everywhere') the band imploded, personal and musical differences splitting the group at the height of their powers (not helped by the antics of the avant gardist Neil Ska moving on from playing 'treated pianos' to trying to play things like a treated tank full of penguins). So the story goes and so here we have it; a surf guitar version of that album."
Band is often credited as 'Alan Jenkins and the Kettering Vampires'; likelihood is that Jenkins is the sole performer.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.