Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Urard, The Giant Australian Leprechaun
An outcast among his people, Urard, the Giant Australian Leprechaun was taken from his family as a baby and shipped Down Under to save his parents a lot of embarrassment. Raised in Townsville, Queensland, Urard had a pretty typical childhood. He was taken in by Rick and Jenny Norrington, a young couple who owned a bar near the marina. With no knowledge of his powers, Rick and Jenny enrolled Urard in school, where he took a keen interest in gold, playing tricks on his classmates and teachers, and music. Urard played the violin in his school’s orchestra.
Later, in high school, Urard’s music career began to take a turn toward professionalism. He often played in his parents bar, rousing the locals with covers of bands like AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. Finally, he was signed with a record label out of Sydney. For three years he sold out performance halls around Australia, until his label dropped him in favor of a Swiss mariachi band. Urard spent the next six years inside a whiskey bottle. The Conductor found him outside an airport, playing a violin with one string, surrounded by a rainbow of empty bottles. After a wild cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland album, Nick was sold. It took a great deal of convincing, but after a plate of waffle fries, a milkshake and a flight to Ireland, where his birth parents rejected him yet again, Urard joined the band.
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