Fatbwoi Live @ NB's 280212

mahalo y'all!!

i hope the world is good with you...

took to the stage at NB's last night, to shake a lil' thang with the wildfire sessions crew...

its an ace venue, kind of a cross between a night club and a castle... my initial expedition to find the toilet resulted in me asking a member of staff for directions, then becoming confused when they contained stairs that i hadn't even seen...

opened with the more traditional one about chicken (hannah filmed it - its attached below), before bouncing off in the direction of evangelism and jazz hands...

stevie requested 'land of the dead', as he recently watched 'attack the block' (behr rude star!!) and told some of the people who were down with him all about it...

newbie 'bite me' sounded nice too... the lovely acoustics of the room really bought out the best in the fatbwoi brass section bit at the end... it was like having a quartet on stand-by... (or something)

in short i had a lot fun, and its safe to say that the thang was officially well and truly shaken...

wildfire sessions are always top nights, and big love and maximum thanks go out to stevie for inviting me down to play last night...

i'm not saying anything about the 'fun' i had trying to get out of northampton... its definitely up there with leicester, but as all good storytellers (and some hobbits) say... that's another story

peace-out y'all 8)

fb

Fatbwoi Live @ Broken Amp 270212

word up you crazy cats!! how the devil is it going...?!

things are good one planet bwoi... a lil' crazy - but hey, we wouldn't have it any other way! there's been a couple of bursts of concentrated thang shakery in the last couple of days... and that always makes for happy time 8)

first up was some thang shakery on the hallowed boards of the broken amp...

also playing were Less For Murder, who opened the evenings proceedings with some dark melodic loveliness, a minor equipment malfunction, and some new material to boot... these are two cool cats (although i did think matt was considering battering the amp at one point!), but cool cats - trust me on this...

next up was the retinal circus, complete with pedals and crazy hat...

and then this one... with a request to hit the stage running, and a bit of caffeine in my system, i was easily ready for a bit of stompy goodness...

opened (perhaps controversially) with jazz hands, and kept the stompy vibe going straight into a 1-800/Love Once medley... always need a swig of something at this point...

really enjoyed playing hard... the middle eight on that is proper lovely pop, i may even have to extend it... the verse's are on the tongue-in-cheek nazty (yeah - with a z!) side - but that's how this cat rolls...

there was a bit of time for a burst of 'back in the day' (a lil' ATD/Ahmad inspired 'cover'), wherein the bwoi done rap about growing up in the MK, roundabouts and the like...

before closing on the one about the chicken...

it was beautiful hearing voices around the room joining in with the faux-french intro...

you gotta love that sh!t

it was a bit of a condensed set, hi-speed like they want the rail links, and not completely dissimilar to that double strength squash you get... but as any reader of this (generally quite random) blog will know...

it's all about the cherries and berries!!

peace-out y'all...

parva doodles on XRP...

word up y'all!!

i hope the world is good with you...

unfortunately i didn't win the band vs. band feature on Gashouse Radio, which was a bit of a bummer, but i quite enjoyed listening to Only the Good and we definitely had some fun in the chat-room...

i did however pick up enough votes to get my tracks into rotation... so maximum thanks to everyone who voted bwoi!! dustin was well up for me sending some new tracks in too, so don't be surprised if you hear more fatbwoi over at http://www.gashouseradio.com 8)

'the patient' was played out on sunday night, in-between RHCP and artist of the week Boog - happy time

right about there, it got a bit freaky-deeky (in a good way)...

because at exactly the same time, it was playing out on XRP Radio too...

and i gotta give big props, love and thanks to those cats over at XRP for their constant support... they've been playing fatbwoi tracks since the release of 'Relentless', and on sunday they played out all of 'Parva Doodles'... hell yes

and dj tizzy, for one, especially seemed to dig it... dog food went down surprisingly well, there was a studio based rendition of the chorus after it had finished, and some crazy ideas for a video...

have to see how that one develops, but i'll tell you one thing for sure...

i'm keeping my clothes on this time!!

but seriously, i'm extremely happy with the way that 'parva doodles' has been recieved... there's been a lot of positive feedback across the board. i never expected it, given its roots as a studio 'doodle'...

thanks

gonna go and watch some near-naked-pleasure-future type sci-fi now, and talk to dudley (still not my cat) about that cat-fart type smell emanating from his general direction...

peace-out y'all 8)

Band vs. Band - Gashouse Radio 070212

Band vs. Band

Fatbwoi vs. Only the Good

070212 - 17.00ET [22.00GMT]

http://www.gashouseradio.com

word up you crazy cats!!

tonight, 3 tracks from Parva Doodles will be featured on the Brain Office show, as part of the 'Band vs. Band' feature... its a kind of winner stays on arrangement, 3 tracks from each band are played back-to-back throughout the show with the artist receiving the most votes staying 'on' until the next show...

votes can be cast (for free) either via the website, or via iphone/android app...

and i may need one or two, as if they make it through tonight's show, the 'other' band will have won eight in a row, which i believe is a record...

so if you fancy tuning in, checking out some brand new alternative bwoi sounds, and maybe throwing a vote or two this way... that'd be most cool, and you know there'd be all big-love-atcha long time...

i'm looking forward to it...

peace-out y'all

The Patient (Cult of Wedge Mix)

ever wonder what would happen if you routed the output of the oddities channel on the fatbwoi filter, through the retro-space age 'cult of wedge' machine...?!

well you crazy cats, you need wonder no-longer!!

that's right! there was a meeting of boffin's somewhere, probably in a hi-tech cave type set-up deep underground, and it is with great pleasure that i present to you the product of said meeting...

so without further ado, why not let the sound of fatbwoi vs. cult of wedge make happy in your ears... (i love that whole 'vs.' thing, and with us two involved there'd almost certainly be lightsabers...)



you can stream it, and download a plush wav version via this lil' widget thing...

a smaller, more portable, mp3 version of the file can be downloaded from bandcamp...

find out more about cult of wedge - here
hear the original version of the patient - here

peace-out y'all

fb

fatbwoi's essential money saving tips #1

place a 7up bottle next to the fridge light to make your fridge/food look more futuristic/like its in the matrix...


2l blue sprite zero boxes can be used to create an early C21st 'future' effect... however the current trend is for blue LEDs, rather than dingy lighting...

PWYW - Pay What You Want Sale @ Bandcamp

PWYW Sale @ Bandcamp

that's right you crazy cats! to celebrate the (pre)-release of Parva Doodles there's a Pay What You Want Sale on over at http://www.fatbwoi.bandcamp.com for the next 7 days...

put another way, for the next 7 days, you can choose exactly how much you want to pay for any of the 'paid' releases on bandcamp... there is NO minimum

included releases...

Parva Doodles - http://fatbwoi.bandcamp.com/album/parva-doodles

Love Once EP - http://fatbwoi.bandcamp.com/album/love-once-ep

Relentless [Fatbwoi 5] - http://fatbwoi.bandcamp.com/album/relentless

'Triple H' and 'Can You Hear Me Now?' are, as ever, available to download for FREE

for more information, check out http://www.fatbwoi.bandcamp.com

peace-out y'all

fb

let's talk about plex baby...

sorry, this reports's coming in a bit late... 

but you know what the doctor said, time is not a straight forward a to b, its a complex wibbly wobbly mass of timey wimey type business... (and there was something else which i forget, but you get the picture) suffice to say, time is like jazz...

yeah, just like jazz...

went on a lil' road-trip on sunday night to see those top-types at the plex...

the aim? to do an interview and record a live video for my choice of tune... it was jazz hands.

the interviewer was the eve-lovely katy jay, and i had a lot of fun doing it... we touched on my plans for 2012,  releasing parva doodles, where i like gigging, and my taste/background in music...

at that point i realised that's probably a whole interview in itself, and as its a question i get asked a lot, i think this is something i am gonna have to double back to...

like mastermind... but not

also learnt whilst filming, that chairs definitely aren't for me... in a sitting down whilst playing sense. which means for me to ever execute a 'stand-up for the key change' type manoeuvre i'm gonna need some of those 'pogo shoes'... 

so maximum thanks to andy for having me down, and to katy, paul and pete for all their help...

i had a top evening, and some coffee too [after a while]... it was fun shaking my thang sans microphone on the psychedelic stage, can't wait to see how it all came out...

until the next time y'all... 8)

presenting... Parva Doodles

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

a deep grooving dirt-funk alt-pop collection...

(with a healthy slice stereo-randomness thrown in for good measure...)

Parva Doodles

the sound of the bwoi in the studio, complete with synths, distortion, harmonies, FX (pretty much the whole nine yards), and not a single acoustic guitar in-sight...

lashings of electric guitar though... and even *shock horror* a guitar solo(!!!)

having drawn comparisons to tom vek, beck (and even rizzle kicks*?!), parva doodles showcases a sound which, whilst very different to the typical stripped back fatbwoi sound, oozes with the fatbwoi vibe...

its upbeat, its anarchistic, organic, left-field, tongue in cheek, and above all... fun

full tracklisting...

1 - Tagbank

2 - Dark Fire

3 - Come On

4 - Dog Food

5 - The Patient

due for release mid-february via itunes, spotify and other major online retailers, pre-release copies are available direct via the magic of http://fatbwoi.bandcamp.com - complete with PDF liner booklet and hidden (bonus) track...

if you fancy seeing it live, discussions are under way about hosting a one-off 'spectacular' (the anti-luau) in birmingham during the summer... but that's a whole different blog - i'll keep ya posted!!

i hope you enjoy listening to it, as i much as i enjoyed making it...

this is not the end of this parva-business... 8)

peace-out y'all

* this is true, totally random, but true...