current_members website years_active label article_title background genre origin name
ben perrier ben thomas -lsb- http://www.winnebagodeal.com/ www.winnebagodeal.com -rsb- 1999 & ndash ; present fierce panda records , double dragon music winnebago deal
 group_or_band rock england winnebago deal
winnebago deal

winnebago deal are a rock music band from oxford , united kingdom .
they started life in the late 1990s at bartholomew school in eynsham , with ben perrier -lrb- vocals , guitar -rrb- and ben thomas -lrb- then on guitar -rrb- writing songs then recruiting a drummer and bass player through an ad .
they played their first gig in early 1999 and fired the bass player a few months later , with ben thomas switching from guitar to bass .
by the summer of 2000 , perrier and thomas ' dissatisfaction with their drummer led to his departure , with thomas switching from bass to drums so the band could continue as a two-piece .
winnebago deal now consists of two bens , ben perrier -lrb- vocals , guitar -rrb- and ben thomas -lrb- drums -rrb- .
winnebago deal generated strong support from many appearances at oxford 's zodiac club , eventually supporting fugazi at london 's forum ; this led to their first record , the `` plata o plomo '' ep in 2003 .
they were nominated for the kerrang award 's ` best british newcomer ' that year .
soon after , the band signed a recording contract with double dragon music , and produced their debut album `` dead gone '' with jack endino , producer of the first nirvana album `` bleach '' .
`` dead gone '' was released in september 2004 .
`` plata o plomo '' was reissued in australia later that year , with an expanded track listing .
the `` two bens '' then went on to play as mondo generator with nick oliveri , former queens of the stone age bassist -- vocalist .
as well as playing mondo generator gigs , they still toured as winnebago deal and even supported mondo generator , earning them the moniker `` winnebago generator '' from fans .
after recording tracks at dave grohl 's studio 606 for the next mondo generator album with producer nick raskulinecz , it was announced in july 2006 that they had left the band for `` undisclosed reasons '' .
in that same month they released their second full-length album `` flight of the raven '' , with the band again choosing to record with producer jack endino .
the album features guest appearances from other artists including band partner nick oliveri , endino , paul morrill and edward `` raven '' heaton from the band sicarios , and rusty needles of oxford band deguello , and was cited as the sixth best album in 2006 by `` kerrang ! ''
writer raziq rauf .
winnebago deal 's third full-length album , `` career suicide '' , was recorded in november 2009 and released a year later .
