Monday 28 November 2011

presenting... "happy dragon starter platter"

PRESENTING, FOR YOUR THANG-SHAKIN' ENJOYMENT...

AN UPBEAT IRREVERENT 'FATBWOI BOMB' 
 DISC-SHAPED, TO FIT NEATLY INTO YOUR HAND!!
(feat. the talents of - Baritone Bwoi, Stereo Omar ...and MORE)


9-TRACKS 
 from across the 'Relentless', 'Love Once', and 'Triple H' EPs
incl. Bullet, Love Once, The Soulcalibur Song and Forces

STRICTLY LIMITED TO 43 COPIES!!

each CD is individually crafted feat. 
a hand drawn CD, and lo-fi monochrome liner...
presented in a brightly coloured fold-out wallet...
(5 colours available)

GRAB YOURSELF ONE OF THESE ULTRA-RARE BAD BWOI'S...
BY CATCHING THE FATBWOI LIVE - £3
or
ORDER ONE BY POST, BY EMAILING HERE - £4.25 (inc p+p)

full tracklisting
1. Love Once
 2. 1-800
3. Mailman
4. Forces
5. Evil Plaque
6. Here Come The Spider People
7. Love Once [Fatbwoi 5]
8. The Soulcalibur Song [Fatbwoi 5]
9. Bullet [Fatbwoi 5]

'HAPPY DRAGON STARTER PLATTER' IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON CD

***update... only 41 copies of this CD remaining... get yours now!!!***

***UPDATE... less than 20 copies remaining... get yours now!!!***

Thursday 24 November 2011

reading a book...

i am reading a book, that has taken 300 pages to get good...

the first 300 aren't bad, they're just a preamble to the bit where it gets good...

its all right though... there's over 500 pages left...

let's hope it doesn't burn itself out to quick now eh?!

Wednesday 23 November 2011

squash 2...

the squash is back...

in a bigger bottle...


same destructions... 

(for simplicity's sake)

however the serving suggestion is still sadly missing...


pretend rice krispies should be served with milk... and an owl.

(that's what it says on the box)

(don't argue with the box man...)

Monday 21 November 2011

discography (releases like buses...)

word up you crazy cats!!

there's a whole bunch of random fatbwoi music floating out and about in the world of cyberspace... usually random demos, radio appearances and such-like... there's been very little out there for the discerning listener to download...

i've been questioned several times as to when i'm going to release something, and let it not be said that fatbwoi release's are like buses, it definitely wasn't a case of nothing for ages and then three turn up at once...

honest...

so without further ado, here is - 

the official fatbwoi discography (with links)


'Love Once' EP  
(05/09/2011)
1. Love Once
2. 1-800
3. Mailman
4. Forces
5. Evil Plaque

download it via itunes
or alternatively you can...
download it via bandcamp (cheapest)
stream it via spotify


'Triple H' EP (04/09/11)
1. Hard (Demo Mix)
2. Higher Level (Demo Mix)
3. Here Come The Spider People

download it for FREEbandcamp



'Can You Hear Me Now?' double A-side (01/09/11)
1. Intro
2. Can You Hear Me Now? (Acoustic Version)
3. Can You Hear Me Now? (Original Version)

download for FREEbandcamp



'Relentless' EP (08/04/10)
1. Love Once
2. The Soulcalibur Song
3. Bullet

available for download @ bandcamp (name your own price... including FREE!)

the vast majority of these tracks, and some other random ones, are available to stream via the magic of...

http://www.reverbnation.com/fatbwoi
(avec gig dates, pictures and other such use(less) information)

or

http://soundcloud.com/fatbwoi

"opal fruit music for a starburst world" - happy time

new date - Broken Amp 12/12/11

that's right you crazy cats...

there's a new date for your diary... the bwoi will be shaking that thang for your delectation live at broken amp (Mon - 12/12/11)...

we gonna party like its nearly a date that has three occurrences of the same number... (or alternatively pretend its next year and the felicitous arrangement of digits is already upon us!!)...



more details via this lil' bookface link...

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121256217986371

see you there...

Sunday 20 November 2011

computron is such a dick...

computron is such a dick....

let's face it, by the end of G1, transformers was getting a bit confused... there were firecon's, seacons (fish decepticons), pretenders, little mini car guy's that shot sparks outta their asses...

not to mention headmasters, targetmasters and powermasters...

i have to admit that, at the time, i thought the headmasters and targetmasters were quite cool... two robots in one, and BIG guns - the toys were quite cool... the idea was a bit weird, why would you want to get engineered, don armour, and become a big robots gun?!

and by the same premise... who the hell would want to be a powermaster? get yourself engineered into a suit and become a giant robot's battery...?! uhm,... what-now?!

its fair to say that in the end, it did all get a bit 'gimick-y'...

the first real gimick was the combiners, and some of the early one's were quite cool... (there was maybe an issue with scaling, motormaster was supposed to be the same size as optimus prime, but was like some kind of mini-truck, out of scale with every other transformer in existence) ... there was bruticus, defensor was quite cool cos he had blades on his arm...

devastator...

then a few sh!t ones...

a return to form with the predacons... i loved the g1 predacons, they combined in a way the dinobots always should've, but didn't...

but even this gimmick lost its cool eventually...

i mean, just what in hell is going on by the team we get to the seacons... they're a bunch of fish... and computron, wel...



i guess i even get the gimmick with fish... the decepticons were going quite 'animal' at the time...

but computron is just a massive nerd, made from futuristic looking vehicles (his arm is something akin to a tron cycle, and there's some kind of guns at the front plane)...

so the decepticons go a bit primal... the autobots just create the next super-nerd in (let's face it) a long line of super-nerd's including perceptor and c3-po... well ok that's not true, but he might as well be...


scoot! oh yeah, well hard probability boy...

personally i think i'd prefer it if super intelligent grimlock had stuck around... it would have been funny to watch the technobots get whooped as he did, as without the upload they were pretty darn useless...

what i never understood as a kid, was why all the leaders of the combiner teams used to go to the trouble of indentifying each member of the team clearly, and then stating the name of their combined form... i get it now, the whole advertising angle... 

but as a kid i used to just think "if you spent less time clearly identifying each other, and rabbiting on the problem with which you are about to deal would already be solved!"

... "surely you know the name of your combined form... you must have done it hundreds of times before..."

"don't call me shirley..."

"oh! uhm,... ok then..."

Saturday 19 November 2011

fatbwoi @ reverbnation

feat. some of the latest greatest tunes - straight off of planet bwoi... 

direct to the comfort of your own home

that's right you crazy cats! with this funky lil' widget you can shake your thang 
to tracks off the 'Love Once' and 'Triple H' EP's...

the acoustic and rap-rock versions of  'Can Your Hear Me Now?
(lifted straight from the double A-side thingy...)

...and MORE!!!


just kick back, don your favourite pair of slippers and let your thang do the work...

you can even download free tracks from this magical lil' widget... happy time

more information and bwoi related goodness - http://www.reverbnation.com/fatbwoi

fatbwoi downloads via http://www.fatbwoi.bandcamp.com

ComScore

Wednesday 16 November 2011

band for the day 161111

presenting (via the magic of http://wwwbandfortheday.com) 
...your 'Band For The Day' 16th November 2011 - 

Fatbwoi


so if you found yourself with a mysterious hankering for some bwoi-ton tunes today, its probably subliminal microwaves transmitted from the internet via a wide variety of tele-communication and computing devices...

(or something...)

i even won a prize... a golden amp!! or more accurately, a winners 'badge' for my website complete with WWFC style old-gold (orange) lettering - i likes orange i does...(this came bundled with the knowledge that should i win band for the day two more times, i'll be inducted into the BftD Hall of Fame - which has rather a nice ring to it, don't ya think?!)


so humpday actually sprang an ok surprise... (although there was an extremely limited range of noodles in tesco's, but we'll leave that for another time...)

although don't in any way feel that listening to bwoi tunes is any less of an enjoyable experience on days that are not the 16th of november... i'll bet it would make your thang shake just the same on the 17th and 18th too!! why not try it?! its a lot less hassle than those derren brown hypnosis 'experiments'...


i hope the world is good with you...

peace-out y'all

Tuesday 15 November 2011

the words in my dictionary...

i've heard it said that you can tell a lot about a person from the words in their phone dictionaries... you know, the predictive text kind which i shall for sake of argument (and a distinct non-arsedness to just check google to see what it actually is) call T9...

tbh, i don't know if i've heard it said, or i just dreamed it in a dream (i've been having a lot of weird dreams lately)... but i'll bet its kind of fun...

thus, the words lifted from the previously-difficult-to-locate T9 dictionary (see previous blog) hidden deep within the bowels of techno-phone...

aiii

alrite

ass

bankrupted

blud

brum

chica

could've

Damn

damned

dem

Dons

Dudley

enunciate

ese

fatbwoi

Fiddy

fucking

Han

hippy

hombre

icthyologist

inabit

init

Irie

Jobi

lil'

Lil'

linenwrecker

Omar

Oooh

peng

playin'

reverbnation

shit

should've

snooze

suss

uhm

Umami

uni

... and there we have it, take from that what you will - right on 8)

Monday 14 November 2011

squash...

no added sugar 
(cool)

improved! - now 30% more fruit juice
(ok, but its a new flavour... but then i suppose the fact that there is now a flavour implies that more fruit was used than before...)

cherries & berries squash - double strength
(hell yeah... concentrate it baby)

concentrated no added sugar apple, cherry, strawberry & raspberry juice drink with sweeteners
(hence the lack of extra sugar)

use half as much! 30+ servings
(wicked. now, how much was i supposed to use in the first place?!)

...
(serving suggestion is sadly lacking, but i bet it would go great on a roll with a bit of salad leaf... typical serving suggestions, that don't involve cereal, suggest that this is the normal way of serving everything...)

Dear Mr Clostermann...

Dear Mr Clostermann,

how the devils be ye?! All good i hope...?!?

as you are aware, i recently purchased a techno-phone (one of those with a whole heap of technology that is probably capable of flying to the moon on its own, before plotting a second low-g launch and leaving us for mars...) which i have been having some 'moments' adjusting too...

the reason i have upgraded to such a technological marvel is complex and convoluted, and either based in a bunch of words that end in '...ivity', or some kind of mid-32 crisis, and for this reason i have decided not to explore them any further at this point...

the old 'touch screen-functionality' is something in particular i have been struggling with, although i do feel this may in part be connected to an age old memory of the 'search for books by sticking you greasy paws on the screen' machine that used to reside in CMK library... but i digress...

its mainly the getting it to type the word i actually asked it to type and not filling my t9 dictionary (predictive text being something i have avoided using on every other phone i have ever possessed) with random streams of letters and gibberish...

let us not mention the tweets involving the word "i'be", which whilst cute in its own kinda retro/ye-olde worlde way, is not something i would ever type... well certainly not with an apostrophe in it. "i are be not well" is a text i have sent this week, as is "i be king of the planets", note in neither case was an apostrophe deployed...

and this is where you come into the story... as you are aware, i did email you for advice on finding my dictionary, which after finding on the first day i had the phone had seemingly disappeared into a myriad of menus and button presses (including buttons which aren't actually buttons - most confusing)...

first i must thank you for your direction... it was clear, concise, and i managed to scrub some hideous amalgamations from my dictionary - good skills that man

secondly you made a recommendation, that i use swype... sent me a link and everything...

and this is where it all went a bit wrong... you see, you sent me a link for swype (one which i have since used, and dude "what a recommendation - thank you!!")... however my initial attempts to obtain this app were conducted via the medium of said techno-phone, which may in itself be foolish, but it lead me somewhere...

it lead me to a game called 'zombie swype'... and i think you know what happened next?! i saw the 'z' word, and we all know that i cannot be held responsible for my actions in the presence of the 'z' word...

so down it was loaded, unto techno phone...

and now i cannot stop playing it! i appear to have developed an addiction to poking zombies in the face... and watching them disappear...

i currently have the 3rd and 4th highest scores ever (there's only probably eight people who've downloaded it ever, or similar) and i have a feeling that 1st and 2nd will fall to me in the next 24 hours...

this game rules... its kicked a hole in my 'champ manager' addiction (if its good enough for plan b its good enough for me), but also appears to have curtailed the whole connectivity of techno phone as i am spending a large amount of time poking the living dead in the face...

if i put the phone down long enough, i may even complete the zombie trilogy with a song about the 'zombies that wolf gave me'...

so i must thank you once more for your most excellent recommendation... one i would pass on to all htc users with the words "thank wolf" (i told mel on saturday, she says 'thanks')... however should a the situation arise, can you please prefix (or suffix) the recommendation with

"go straight past the zombies, where available collect £200, but do not stop at zombie or else you will get very little done..."

i hope the world is good with you

big love

fatbwoi

Sunday 6 November 2011

the tree is on fire...

the tree is on fire...

the helicopter is out...

the helicopter is not attending the tree fire, but rather hovering in an almost geostationary manner over what may be a lake, a road, or a big shop...

it has something to do with fireworks...

"i told you we shouldn't have buried that one"

oh yeah, you're proper hilarious you...

the helicopter is probably not over the stadium, it must be cheaper (although less portable) to use the in-house floodlights...

that would more 'sound' both economically and ecologically...

solar panels have improved the day-time efficiency of the local leisure centre, however year on year stats show a decrease in night-time efficiency that offsetting will not balance out...

i'm gonna walk to marks'... get me some smokes

which is both economically and ecologically sound...

the tree is on fire...

the helicopter is out...

Der Affe ist nicht unter dem Tisch

Wednesday 2 November 2011

...is this thing on?!

uhm,... hello?!

is this thing on?! are we hot?! ...good to go?!

cool.

i gotta apologise for the recent short-fall in blog delivery, there's been a few changes round here, and between one thing and another, i was forced to spend the last few months in a decompression unit at south mimms' services...

before we even get onto the connection, the facilities themselves were terrible... although there was admittedly no repeat of the northampton services sh!t mountain episode...

thank the maker.

i was however digging the oversize bwoi-ball vibe... like one of those gerbil balls, slightly more controlled than zorbing, considerably more sophisticated and cooler lookin'...

but i am back once again... with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour...

the other night i spent over an hour wondering whether or not there was a cadbury's "screme egg" melting under my ass... turns out it wasn't, and it survived for a further 10 days (a record), before being munched by frau linenwrecker...

the green bit in the middle is a tad wrong, but not a patch on freaky fingers... there's some serious colouration issues going on there...

but nah, its all good... i'm putting the final touches to culture corner studios - output from which will be appearing soon, and working out some funky business for the end of this year into the next....

'sall lookin' good y'all

thanks for watching

peace-out!!