You will have heard the music of the Penguin Café Orchestra, even if you aren’t one of their hard-core fans – like the two Japanese girls who flew in last month from Tokyo and turned-up to Glastonbury ...

When we need a civilising boost at Quietus Towers, we always turn to the music of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. John Doran talks to Arthur Jeffes about carrying on his father's legacy with a new album.

The music of Penguin Cafe is like no other. Its origins date back to the early '70s, within fever dreams Simon Jeffes had that were brought on by food poisoning. In those dreams he imagined a ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A giant penguin effigy on a semicircular Victorian outdoor stage and a painted backdrop of an Italian renaissance ...

Nearly 20 years ago, musician Arthur Jeffes paid tribute to his late father Simon’s work as the leader of Penguin Cafe Orchestra with a 2007 concert of the group’s playful, genre agnostic music held ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Type ''Arthur Jeffes'' and ''biography'' into Google and one of the first links that pops up is a 2006 BBC documentary called Blizzard: ...

Penguin Prison's new music video for "Never Gets Old" follows he and his grandpa palling around a Florida retirement community and crashing a Miami pool party. By Megan Buerger This week’s ...

Attention: The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums does not equal The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The former, new publication has been roundly criticized for not ...

Some groups form in school or college, some grow out of teenage friendships and others from "musicians wanted" ads; nearly all of them are formed with the initial idea of sounding like somebody else.