![]() ![]() On 1 October it was announced that Sam Luke, the drummer for the band at the time, would become the new robot in the band, "Hatchworth". On 24 September 2012, the band announced on their Tumblr page that Jon Sprague would no longer be a part of the group. In April 2012 they released a DVD entitled, Steam Powered Giraffe: The DVD (and the Quest For the Eternal Harp of Golden Dreams). That year, they were voted Best Live Comedy act (and runner up for Best Family Entertainment act) on San Diego A-List.īesides their musical endeavors, the band publishes a web comic and has produced a card game based on characters in their backstory. Their second studio album, entitled The 2¢ Show, was released in May 2012. The band's song "Electricity Is In My Soul" is available on the Rock Band Network. Also, their music can often be heard on a number of steampunk radio broadcasts that stream worldwide, such as The Clockwork Cabaret. 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. The strip showed the title character and two of her friends dressed in steampunk attire, going out to attend a SPG concert. On 30 October 2011, the band was mentioned by name in the comic strip Luann. 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. It contained the previously released single from May 2009 titled "On Top of the Universe", along with the hit "Brass Goggles" in 2009. In October 2009, the band released their first album, Album One. 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. Due to personal reasons, Erin Burke left the group in 2011. 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. Afterwards, they became members of a local San Diego pantomime group called Troupe SD. The members of Steam Powered Giraffe met while taking Theatre Arts at Grossmont College.
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