upcoming gigs alert... (avec le widget)

the bwoi will be out once again in public, shaking that thang for your delectation...

and obviously in-line with my civic duty, i just have to tell you where... (its for your own safety, or somebody's safety, i forget...)

to this end, i have pasted this lil' do-hickey with big blobs on a map where i can be found...

that's proper 21st century and everything...

an in plain text that's...

28th August - Rhett Barrow's Album Launch, The Soundhouse, Lecicester

10th September - Artsfest @ The Flapper, Birmingham

11th September - Booze Fusion Festival 2011, The Vic Bikers Pub, Coalville

26th October - Rowell Charter Acoustic Club, Kettering

peace-out y'all

fatbwoi live @ worcester music festival 200811

word-up ye crazy cats! how the devil's is it goin' with you?!

things are, as ever a bit mental on planet bwoi at the minute (although i should state for the record that there are of course different definitions of mental, and it hasn't quite got "don't blame me, blame the ice-cream" levels yet...)

bur the mental never gets in the way of the thang-shakery (although it has been said that the two walk hand in hand) and as such i did step out last week to wiggle it (just a lil' bit) at 'The Boston Tea Party' as part of Worcester Music Festival 2011!!

and i must confess to having had a most-excellent time...

car/parking-related shenanigans meant that i didn't get to catch those crazy less for murder cats whilst they were playing, but it was nice to sit and have a lil' chinwag in the chippy before my set/mooching back up to the venue...

(there was truly supreme toy-shop window en route too... i cannot tell you what was in it for fear of appearing more of a geek than i do now - but rest assured, it was cool)

the venue was top... it had an aeroplane stuck the ceiling, some properly yummy looking cake-age... like, uhm,... props and everything!!

opened with some chicken, lil' bit of tv evangelism, and had just got into discussing the whole running naked around the woods being chased by a bear thing, when the legend that is I've Been Dean (avec entourage) appeared at the door in his glowing daz white jeans...

from there on in, it got a lil' kooky... 8)

we had a bit of a party atmos going on... so the set list got a bit free and easy at the end! i felt bad because i had to deny a request for 'house of corpses' (its been too long since i played it, but i'll slip in sometime soon), but less bad at denying of for the song about the woman with a habit...

instead we settled for a quick burst of the krshna song... proximity to the godhead re-established, we got on with the party...

then in honour of the post-modern one (i.b.dean) i did me a lil' book-ending and closed with an exuberant burst of nandos...

went down a treat...

i even had a portugese dude telling me how his dad makes the best piri piri ever, i asked him to send me the recipe but i get the impression that it may be a 'family' secret, in which case i've asked if he can just send his dad...

no reply on that so far...

all in it was a really good night, met some top new people and got to touch base with some top older friends AND got to shake that thang...

what more can a bwoi ask for?!

(took me friggin' ages to find the car though...)

Love Once EP @ amazon

word up you crazy cats!!!

most-excellent news... if alyson hannigan has forever altered your outlook on 'bandcamp', the Love Once EP is now available to download via the magic of amazon.co.uk!

or more specifically, this link...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Once-EP/dp/B005GI75YA/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312888302&sr=301-1

happy time

each track can be downloaded individually for 79p, or you can download the whole EP for £3.95...

further-more, if you join my mailing list either via http://www.fatbwoi.com or http://www.reverbnation.com/fatbwoi - i'll make sure you get the same bonus material promised to the people of bandcamp when 'B.o.t.Q' is released...

right-on

chris's sexy dance... (& the roscoe experiment)

word up you crazy cats... how's it goin'?! all good i hope...

here-in lies the answer to a question i'm pretty sure was never asked... that old doozy, what would happen if the bwoi downed tools and started making electronic music?! (and as questions go... that's pretty specific right about there...)

but there would be some sense in asking it... because before i got on this fatbwoi tip, i used to make electronic music under the guise of the roscoe experiment... kinda funky bigbeat/breakbeat largely based around a collection of samplers and the desire to shake some funky thang...

T.R.E started in 2004, and there's occaisional evidence that the experiments (of an unknown nature obviously) continue to this day... i can neither confirm or deny this...

one such piece of evidence would be the 'Chris's Sexy Dance' project (aka the monday night club)... rumour has it that each of these tracks were written and recorded in one night, across a series of mondays in the summer of 2009...

but that's just rumour... really, when it all comes down to it... who knows?

but its a dirty pleasure you can sample right about now thanks to the joys of bandcamp and the interweb...

the title track never actually made it onto the final release... but there is a video, hidden deep within the bowels of youtube... it features the magic cornflake box hat - which is, quite frankly, possibly the worst bit of stage-gear ever; and some snow...

in fact... here it be 8)

three's another two tracks, that are currently lost in the mists of time... an electro dub type thing, and some experimental electronica loosely based on dennis hopper's truck from land of the dead... with one night to write and complete a tune... things can get a bit strange...

so there you have it... the answer to a question that was probably never asked... and a lovely lil' bit of ear candy...

peace-out y'all

fatbwoi @ reverbnation

word up you crazy cats...

just a quick one to let you now that there is now another place on the web where you can get your bwoi fix...

si senor y senoritas, it is now possible to keep track of the comings and goings of el chico gordo via the magic of reverbnation...

there's a page, here's a link and everything...

http://www.reverbnation.com/fatbwoi

its got a player, which currently features tracks off both the new 'Love Once' EP, and also from FB5's classic 'Relentless' EP... you can even see the naked-in-a-cape 'Bullet' video there too - happy time

there's a whole bunch of share-y business, a chart (i moved up a whooping 98k places globally yesterday - far out), and a large pile of other bwoi related goodness...

i'll be uploading some more goodies soon, i'm currently reeling from having moved my profile up from 17% complete to 94%... it would appear that the 90's numbers are really working for me about now...

so why not pop over and have a look see... it'll be fun 8)

another great feature is you can paste widgets with bwoi music on them all over the place... thus 

and, as another happy bonus... my facebook page is now using the reverbnation player rather than the patchy facebook one which wouldn't let you skip through tunes, and was just a bit lame...

that's right y'all...

a shiny new player over at http://www.facebook.com/fatbwoi.13

the party is on this side of the car...

happy time

nice beard dude...

well, it would appear to be back again...

yeah, the beard has returned...

and i'm not sure how...

i only realised when someone said to me last night "hey man, loving the beard dude!", i wouldn't say that i was oblivious up till that point, but it still hadn't fully registered...

hence my reply, with was received with much hilarity "nah man, its not a beard, its laziness... that's just where it grows", which it is... there is zero planning or preparation goes into this thing, it just does as it does...

but it never gets straggly until it has been identified as a beard... until that point the neatness of the growth seems inconsequential... the second that it is named beard bits appear to be sticking out, and it lacks shape...

i personally become very aware of the curly oil black fly hairs which grow in their own comb-over formation on me chin... it do find it a lil' disturbing that i can grow a (whole bunch of) hair that is that 'wrong'... bad times...

maybe i'll set the man strimmer on it... or do it like those posh gardener types with a tiny pair of scissors...

it feels weird when i sing and sweat into it... but i think it went well with the two-piece (they offset each other perfectly at the fb5 luau)...

beard (untrimmed), vein, and two piece @ fb5 luau - well complimentary 8)

but if i man strimmer it, what number to chose... do i want a 7 or a 5, which number did i assault the burns with last time... how hard to press... there's so many potential pit-falls

today i have mostly been worrying about my 'apparent' beard...

gigs in august

word up ye crazy cats!! hows the devils is it goin'?!

i'm back once again, with both the ill-behaviour, and in line with my legally obliged civic duty to inform...

yes, there's gonna be some thang-shakery afoot during the month of august... and i just gotta take this opportunity to warn you about it... (or something) :P

i've also confirmed another night at the rowell charter acoustic club... 26th October, more details closer to the time - think i may just have to don something slightly more gormless than usual given the proximity to halloween... any excuse 8)

gonna be a good 'un...

so, gigs in august, and one in october...

Sat 20th August - The Boston Tea Party @ Worcester Music Festival

- taking to the stage as part of the worcester music festival, a whole host of quality musics presented over the weekend, and me... playing at the boston tea party (onstage @ 19.00hrs-ish)

Sun 28th August - The Soundhouse, Leicester (tbc)

- taking to the stage as part of my good mate rhett barrow's album release party... dedbeat melodies, proper quality cut by a quality musician... gonna be a good night with a whole host of quality music on display - happy time

Weds 26th October - Rowell Charter Inn Acoustic Club, Rothwell

- bustin' some moves and poppin' some grooves onstage again with the rowell charter crew... always a quality night, in a top notch venue... c'mon down - right on 8)

peace-out y'all

co-owner of a wok...

yeah man...

i am now officially co-owner of a wok!!!

i've never been the co-owner (or sole owner) of a wok before... its quite a nice feeling really 8)

obviously i report that in purely scientific times, and for purely scientific reasons...

christened it last night too...

with the prawns (gotta love cooking prawns), the tomatoes, the mushrooms, garlic and wine - right on!! not the most stir-fry of meals, but enjoy cooking it in the wok did i...

linenwrecker enjoyed the results too... threw some stuff in a wok, sat down and had a munch together, one of those lovely moments where you know everything is gonna be alright...

and, to top it all off...

prawns go in grey

prawns come out pink

MAGIC WOK!!! 8)

tripping up over rizla

you gotta feel the word as it lollops off your tongue...

riz-la

kinda silky, yet kinda awkward...

riz-la

that z, just crying out at the abuses against its human rights that force it to be a 'z' rather than a much free-er 'th'...

riz-la

like a name on the wind...

riz-la

waiting patiently to trip you up...

riz-la

now stand in a queue in a shop, mentally running through your shopping list to make sure nothing has evaded you and you return from the shops triumphant, a hero, a true being of the age...

riz-la

you have the milk, the stuff of the shelf of decay, maybe even a cheeky bag of skittles, all of these items you can purchase without ever actually having to say anything to the cashier (should the mood strike you)

riz-la

and now we come to the items behind the counter, the items you can't have unless you interact directly with the aforementioned cashier - the security packaged razor blades, the pokemon cards, the...

riz-la

and watch how you just can't say it without sound like you have just completely lost the ability to talk, you watch as that 'z' jabs its way toward being a 'th', your tongue gets fat, and you can't even begin to say the word correctly...

riz-la

a drunken slurring in the middle, a enforced linguistic abbreviation, i don't know what it is... but all the time in the queue, and any other time chatting with your mates - no problem

riz-la

but right here, right now... no-go

riz-la

and it sounds like you can't talk...

riz-la

and you just hope the cashier doesn't ask you to repeat yourself...

riz-la