As time and technology have advanced, we’ve seen various instruments created to generate sound. A drum kit for example is an expensive way of making noises. Hitting different objects at various strengths with your fists can produce equal bangs. We also have different varieties of guitars! Unlike apples, they all make the same sounding note when plucked. These days its overpriced pedal kits which give you the ability to sound like you’re trapped in a moon crater.

With 2010 being the age known as the future, musicians from the eighties probably thought that musical instruments would have developed in amazing new ways. Science would give us the chance to be injected with chemicals and then make angel like melodies when we tapped our teeth, pulled certain armpit hairs or coughed. Did we get any of this? Not a chance. Instead, we got sodding “Guitar Hero” and its annoying sister “DJ Hero”.

Oh wow, look at that! The pretty colours that flash on the screen need to be pressed at the right time on the plastic guitar in order for it to work. If so, the right bit of music comes out the TV! Fail to do so and recorded voices boo you and tell you to go join Keane or some other weak feeble band. All of the repetative motions often leave players in a piss-poor trance that musicians would go through if they overdid it on herbal tea.

If this is the future of music then as music fans, we offer our collection of LP’s and stolen gig set lists to the Gods above. Honestly, it can sometimes seem that while diluted indie band after copycat act get airplay through various media outlets, the raw creativeness of some acts just seems to get ignored so a skinny boy with a battered guitar can sing mushy songs about his kitchen drain clogging up.

But amongst all the blandness there is one band that really is something truly amazing. This specifically goes right back to the instruments they use. Unless you’re brain dead you’ll probably have guessed that it isn’t a typical band set up with drums, guitars and a base. Nor have we found any musical scientists who have wired up monkeys and gives them shocks to make them produce different sounding notes.

No, it’s the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra who literally do as their name suggests. Making music from vegetables. Not only is this a truly fascinating concept, but watching a gig of theirs will quite likely count as one of your five a day. As this dinky little Youtube showreel of the band doing what they. From visiting local markets to buying their gear, engineering them to a high performance standard and then using converted carrots as flutes.

The sound of peppers, cabbages and pumpkins oddly come together well and can sound at times almost electronic. Do we know how? No, it’s far too complicated for our little heads. But we enjoy it. Which is the main thing.