A voyage round my father's orchestra

The much-loved Penguin Cafe Orchestra was the brainchild of one man's fantastical musical imagination. His son Arthur Jeffes explains how he's keeping the dream aliveMy first memories of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra are not musical ones. My dad, Simon Jeffes, had been touring Japan, and he brought back these fantastic toys. They were the precursors to Power Rangers: you'd get one big robot made out of several little robots. Aged four or five, I found these far more interesting than the music, of w...

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