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The band's official website stated that "Locum Amateur Transplant Suman Biswas appeared with Adam for a few years, but is now back to healing the sick and lame". Biswas works full-time in the NHS as an anaesthetist and in 2013 released a solo album entitled
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every year for several years from 2005 and Adam Kay performed at Latitude 2012. Ten percent of their sales, and all proceeds from the London Underground Song are donated to
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Their music primarily consists of parody comic songs mostly dealing with medical subjects. A few of their parodies are based on the works of American comedic songwriter
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respectively. "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life", the final song of their first album, ridicules most of the other London medical schools.
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strike of the time. It was released as part of their first album, and a newly recorded version with a rock music accompaniment was included in
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In 2010 the duo toured the UK with the "Amateur Transplants in Theatre" show leading to the live album of the same name.
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Amateur Transplants toured the UK in 2007 with "The Black and White Menstrual Show" which resulted in their first DVD.
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The band's most famous track "London Underground", along with its accompanying flash animation, was a popular
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During 2012, Adam Kay toured Britain under the title "From Amateur Transplants: Adam Kay's Smutty Songs".
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and Suman Biswas (born 1978). Amateur Transplants came to prominence in 2005 with a song about the
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during Frampeik, an annual conference for Norwegian medical students.
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London Underground (song)
London
Parody
comedy
Adam Kay
parody music
London
Adam Kay
London Underground
Jam
Going Underground
Time Out
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Reading
Tom Lehrer
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Macmillan Cancer Relief
Fitness to Practice
Unfit to Practise
Have Yourself a Sweary Little Christmas
In Theatre
Geek Pop
internet fad
Going Underground
The Jam
London Underground
iTunes Store
Imperial College London
King's College London
Barts

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