not getting eaten by bears...

following the whole 'Bullet' experience, i think its safe to say that i don't always have the best time of it when it comes to woodland... (but really... how the hell does a mermaid get up in a tree anyway?!)

but i'm aware that this is my dysfunction, and as such have been taking steps to tackle it...

one such step was the scheduling of a photo-shoot with the lovely jo masey, in that most dreaded of locations... nature.

my mission, was simply not to get dive-bombed by a mermaid...

one of the key differences between this and the bullet video being that this time i was dressed... the other, and probably most important was that this time i was armed... i had a guitar! this simple fact opens up two interesting possibilities in the event of mermaid/fantastical creature attack...

1. i could sing at them, hope that the dig the thang-shaking thing (it being a new sound completely unheard in their natural realm) and that i can distract them long enough for something shiny/not me to appear and catch their attention

2. use it as a club... although i love my guitar, so this is very unlikely... i could wield it and make like an angry gaz from supergrass (so i've been told) in the hope that they go away... 

did i feel less 'safe' when my guitar was out of reach?

uhm, yeah... slightly

did i stop me from resting my ass up against a tree and getting down with some nature groove?!

hell no...

i was like [to the guitar] "you sit hear a sec while i space me out some jazzy beats..."

and there was this definite kind of jazz thing going down... well that, and a slightly disturbing feeling of unsure footing... that'll be the logs, and the chips, and the foiliage...

all in it was a lot of fun, you can view the full album via the magic of bookface, here...

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150407386988470.383327.15364453469&type=3

and just in case you're wondering what in the devil this mermaids and fantastical creatures business i keep going on about is, well, here's a lil' reminder...

if you go down to the woods today...

peace-out y'all 8)

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 from across the 'Relentless', 'Love Once', and 'Triple H' EPs

incl. Bullet, Love Once, The Soulcalibur Song and Forces

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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]

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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 FREE @ bandcamp



'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 FREE @ bandcamp



'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...

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'...

http://www.facebook.com/fatbwoi.13

http://www.fatbwoi.com

i hope the world is good with you...

peace-out y'all

...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!!

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

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

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

fatbwoi live @ the sunflower lounge 230711

word up y'all...

done did play me a lil' set on saturday night, downstairs at the sunflower lounge in central birmingham, where the air is hot and humid, and there is an interesting array of scaffolding and fairy lights...

although i think the more appropriate architectural term would probably be someting like 'feature'...

if ya wore it on your head, it'd definitely be a fascinator...

the occasion?! G (of mighty boomshadow fame)'s nth birthday, or 'living wake' as he preferable to call it... and i for one cannot think of a better reason for a bit of celebration...

G opened the evening's entertainment with a solo set, quality tunage delivered on his stratacoustic... and i haven't seen the big G t-shirt before, but i like it... i noticed that there were no covers in my man's set, but put it down to the shorter-sets-to-wedge-in-as-much-entertainment-as-possible nature of the night...

next up was the man-god dale perry, with a short solo set... haven't seen the man d play for a while, and i really enjoyed his set. i could still here some of the dub-no basslines i applied when i stood in on the four-string for 'I Am Locutus' at 2009's Worcester Music Festival... they probably didn't need that much dub at the time... but you can't stop a bwoi in full flow... 8)

g returned to the stage, backed by two guitars, a bass, and the living legend that is paul carroll on the skins... then delivered a supreme collection of (mostly) who covers... it was nice to see g letting his hair down, and busting some move sans guitar, and the PC groove machine in full effect is a truly excellent sight to behold, and i defy anybody not to shake their thang to his infectious rhythmic stylings...

and then i...

my man laurence (1k that's his name) welcomed me on with a properly heart-warming intro (thanks dude!!), and i was fully ready to 'do it to it'...

i played my set by request, it being G's birthday after-all!! this meant the order was a bit odd but all the goodies were there... opened with a jazz hands (my choice), and then deferred to the birthday boy...

there was some CYHMN, a bit of the kinks, and an ultra-rare outing for the tune that is 'crack whore'... (i think i've actually played that more times since christmas than in the two years previous... maybe i should write an extra verse or something, its still a big dumb bludgeoning riff, and my favourite bit has to the 'crack rocks' section) - i reckon its probably safe to put it back on the shelf for a bit...

finished with the chicken one, in duet format (with the G), and a fat pile of crowd participation right about there... and left the stage having (by request) over run my 30mins slot, covered in sweat and barely able to talk... you gotta love it!!

(the mighty) Boomshadow took to the stage to close the night's proceedings, and from the bit of their set that i saw, they were on blistering form... it was nice to see all four of them onstage (for the first time this year i think), 2011 mBS have reworked some of their stuff jus' a lil' and were really good... they're playing at the bandstand in bearwood soon (i'll try and find a link), and are always definitely worth a look-see if you haven't already...

had to make a slightly early break for the wild, to avoid the wheels being impounded... the normally safe island bar car park having been turned into a(n) (admittedly cheap) pay and display car park... with nasty warnings about tickets, documents and letters - boo.

all in, had me a really good night, especially nice to see 1k, PC, PH, dale, sam, and of course the G... (thanks for inviting me dude!)

i love his new shirt!

me next one is at worcester music festival (20th August)... and the thang is already primed and ready to go... 'sgonna be like a super-coiled spring by the time we get there...

in the meantime...

peace-out y'all

Love Once EP

word up you crazy cats!!!

today sees the release of the 'Love Once' EP... a kinda prequel to the whole 'Bonfire of the Quangos' album adventure, which is due later this year...

thang-shakin' good times music from me... to you.

as ever, all human life, and all life's essentials are there, and rumour has it there may even be a secret dental-centric bonus track on there...


its currently available to download via the magic of bandcamp (http://www.fatbwoi.bandcamp.com)...

you can name your own price, but anyone who is enamoured enough to download a paid copy will receive some exclusive bonus business when the album is released...

i don't think ya can say fairer than that...

peace-out y'all 8)

Love Once EP - Fatbwoi - 2011

1 - Love Once
2 - 1-800
3 - Mailman
4 - Forces

http://www.fatbwoi.bandcamp.com

Festival Weekend - Artsfest AND Booze Fusion (September 10th/11th 2011)

word up ye crazy cats!!! how the devil(spawn) is it going...?!?

this just in, some exciting developments down home on the farm... it is with much joy and happiness that i can confirm that there's gonna be a festival weekend - hell yes!

the bwoi gone be shaking that thang across two different sites on the weekend, for your own personal delectation, and in line with my legally obliged civic duty... i just thought i'd let ya know 8)

so where does this goodness take place...?!

first up...

ARTSFEST 2011

Artsfest is the UK's largest free arts festival, and takes place over the weekend September 10th/11th. It features a series of events across Birmingham, celebrating the West Midlands most talented performers, artists and creative projects... (http://www.artsfest.org.uk/)

...and it also features me!

i'll be playing at The Flapper and Firkin on Sat 10th, fully primed up and ready to go... hitting the stage about 15.00hrs... with the whole FREE entry thing going on, excuses not to come down and bust some moves/indulge in some quality arts/music goodness are limited...

BOOZE FUSION FESTIVAL 2011

Booze Fusion is a 3day festival running from 9th-11th September at The Vic Bikers Pub in Coalville... and promises to be a top weekend of music and beer goodness!! Day tickets are a 20th century low price of £5, and camping is free (although distributed on a first come basis... so's you takes your chances)...

I'll be taking to the stage at some point on Sunday 11th September, stage time tbc...

But I'd strongly advise you to come down, there's both a main stage and an acoustic stage, and i know for a fact that the most-excellent Grace and The Magic Roots are playing on Sunday too...

Excuses, again, are few...

Maybe we can shake some thang together?!

peace-out y'all

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fatbwoi live @ broken amp 040711

word up you crazy cats!!

how the devil does it all happen to be going?! all good i hope...

last night saw me take to the stage for the most-excellent broken amp crew at the adam and eve for my first 'this midlands' gig in a (what seems like a long) while...

and enjoy it most thoroughly did i...

but less of the yoda speak, and a bit more about the evening's entertainment... 8)

the evening was opened by stuart o'connor, i met him the other week playing at the rothwell charter festival and he asked me if i might be able to sort him out a gig on his way back from scotland... thus

he has a proper sweet psychedellic acoustic sound, with judicious application of effects and looping technology... which is always a good thing (scienceFAKT right about there).

as ever, stuart delivered an outstanding set... dude got some quality tunes and sounds, and i'd definitely advise you to check him out... i hope to catch up with him again soon...

the important stuff - sweet sneaks, and lemonade-infused beverages... 

i, for an absolute shocker opened with the one about chicken...

the bwoi was headlining the evenin', which was runnin' a lil' behind schedule, so the ineffably lovely rich asked me to hit it flying... lest the powers that be (the bar staff) tried pulling the plug on us (its the bar lady who likes to get home as early as...)

so we'd wailed through 1-800 and love once before i paused to 'have a word'... (as you do)

government done took my babies...

there was a fully-clothed version of the naked in a cape one... and by this point, it seemed things were getting a lil' rowdy...

drop an 'up-swung' kinks cover in we properly got it going on...

a lil' bit of apocalypse education, which from what i hear may have been misplaced... rich advised me that i should head over to leicester again as, despite my constant musical visits, the council over there still does not have a decent contingency plan in the event of zombie apocalypse...

that's just a lil' half assed if you ask me... but hey, any excuse to shake the thang (init)

it was a top night all-in, gotta love the broken amp crew... they always make me feel welcome, join-in, we always have a party... can't wait until the next one 8)

oh and the 2d lady was pimped out with a foxy leopard print number...

pimp my (2D) lady...

that right there, is style ladies and gentlemen...

placed opposite a full-size disco ball, you got something properly intangible...

peace-out y'all

NEXT GIG - G (of mighty Boomshadow fame)'s Birthday Thang... the one at a secret venue, where-in there shall be a 'breaking of stuff' - happy time 8)

do not be alarmed...

do not be alarmed...

do not adjust your set (which better damn well be properly licensed)...

do not remove your ornaments and valuables from their usual homes... (there isn't time and you threw out yesterdays paper so you have nothing to wrap them in...)

do not pay any attention to what you have just read...

everything is fine, the sun is (mostly) out and its the weekend...

put the crisis on hold for ten...

and live a lil'

happy time

this has been a public broadcast announcement from fatbwoi industries... home to the fatbwoi gerbil army (the sweetest smelling army in the world... but quite sh!t at making beds it would seem), and inventor of bath in a can (ok that's a bold claim... but certainly the first man to put it to song)...


its pretty much always good to add lime and/or sugar...

some dates for your diary...

word up you crazy cats!!!

as previously established, the suits in the government have advised (initially in a white paper, the bill has now moved onto for debate the house) that i must give each and every one of you due and fair warning of any instance where upon i may be spotted shaking that thang on public...

its for your own safety...

they were also insistent that i describe it in an overwordy verbose stylee... 7 words where 3 will do?!

don't mind if i do... 8)

4th July - Broken Amp @ Adam and Eve, Birmingham

23rd July - G (off of Boomshadow's birthday bash), a secret location, probably in the midlands

20th August - Boston Tea Party, Worcester Music Festival, Worcester

28th August - Bat and Wicket, Northampton

i'll provide more details as and when they become available - its a legal obligation right about there...

peace-out y'all

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here come the spider people...

wicked lo-fi video by world famous visionary, mind-bending iconic leftfield director rasterpopulos for the experi-jazz creation that is 'here come the spider people' from 2008's 'experi-jazz sessions - minus one'...

the track, as too the genre, simply defy pigeon-holing, and rallies in the face of definition...

an improv recorded in mono, featuring rasterpopulos on the t-type electric and fatbwoi on vocals/acoustic 'spider people' is the final track of the minus one session (which was indeed, quite as session...), and it takes the listener back to the exact point in time where the album begins...

'plectrum in my mouth'

messing with your perception of time... man

yeah right, it would appear that the heavy session that lead to the creation of this work may also have involved a large amount of wreck-ed philosophy and a healthy smattering of conceptualising... 

far out

here comes the spider people

look at their eight arms... and lots of eyes

they are THE SPIDER PEOPLE

spider spider, spider spider, spider spider, spider spider, spider spider

here come the spi-der people...

... i need to change the sound.

fatbwoi live @ the rowell charter inn 200611

i've broken the seal...

it never stops once you've broken the seal...

here at bwoi industries we clearly value your call, however for the best definition of the 'january 29th 2006 urban word of the day', please visit... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=break%20the%20seal

just because...

word up you crazy cats! played me a lil' lunchtime gig as part of the 2nd annual rowell charter beer and acoustic festival... oh yes, some of these people had been having it large (and rightly so!), and when i arrived around lunchtime... there sure was a lot of mirth/joy/drunken-confusion being spread around... happy time 8)

the sun was out... i had me red top on... thang primed and ready

and all this by 12.45 (get me!!!)

pop-art bwoi?!

there was fun... there was chicken, some irreverent references to genesis and how i prefer my tv evengelist song to theirs... there was a fully-clothed performance of the naked-in-a-cape one... even a kinks-ian nod to the most glorious weather (definitely better weather than saturday when the weather was doing the whole rapid fire bi-polar thing)...

there was a mild wave of terror swept through the audience as, in explaining that they didn't need to join in with the actions on 'jazz hands' because of the weather, i forgot to tell them that i was about to shout at them in german... my bad

of course i always preferred racing like a p!ss-horse

i'm a bit worried about rothwell's chances in the event of the inevitable zombie apocalypse... i have played 'l.o.t.d' there before so i've done my local safety/information bit, but i did snap the g string whilst playing it! mark suggested that possibly the zombie gods were aggrieved... he may well have had a point...

a quick change onto stevie's guitar (cheers dude) meant i could deliver a quick dose of mentalism, hip hop and gadgetry... job officially as they say -  a good un!

really enjoyed playing, it was nice to actually get a bit of sun on my studio-tanned arms for once...

but a special mention has to go out to the bacon sandwich (with chilli sauce)... there's something special about festival bacon sandwiches, and this one was no different...

washed down with a swift shandy, it went down a treat... but i do think i committed that real ale fest faux pas, of seeing all the barrels and the wonderful variety, and opting for common or garden lager... diluted with lemonade. oops

really enjoyed stuart o'connor's set... he plays psychedelic folk armed with (around) 15 pedals, for techno weirdness... i was chatting to him afterwards (safe dude - tunes well worth checkin' out...), and he was saying how sometimes he just feels like properly wigging out with all the gadgets, but doesn't cos he thinks the audience might not get it... 

i know that feeling... but it ain't half fun 8)

peace-out y'all

fatbwoi live @ the cross keys 180611 [the under 10's army]

word up you crazy cats! 

how's it all goin...?! all good i hope...

yesterday was the second day of the cross keys beer and music festival... and therefore time for this one to swoop in and do some thang shakin'... 

shapes - thrown

time - happy

hyphens - full effect

started my set a lil' early as the highly variable weather meant that there was a captive audience... mk was having a gorgeous sunshine/heavy 'matrix' rain split personality kinda day, although scrolling green code and keanu reeves were sadly missing...

opened with the chicken and the god before declaring that the walkway to the exit was now a 'dance-walkway', then executing a neat swing left into the one with the metallica...

martian desert-trek bwoi...

it was round about this time that i noticed the growing ranks of the under 10's army, who were not only showing the adults how the whole 'dance-walkway' thing should be done, but properly havin' it large...

the party was definitely over there, and then there... and then there... some of them were proper whizzing around... this took a bit of esp and lifting of the guitar to ensure no-accidents. the remainder of the u10's army was putting my dance moves to shame... there was some proper funky bogling going on...

dropped the sun-inducing 'Mr E's Beautiful Blues' which gave me an opportunity to whiz into 'Missing'... haven't played that in a while (but it went alright)...

the under 10 army assembles...

did get a bit confused on the exact order of the lyrics in sunny afternoon (for a shocker)... but the people in the audience singing along most-graciously helped me out...

all-in it was a top gig, there was a nice party-vibe to the place (a whole range of fantastic beers on sale) and it was really cool to see the kids 'getting down'...

did get me thinking about extending the fatbwoi army, creating an under 10's division, who when teamed up with fatbwoi gerbil army (the sweetest smelling army in the world) counterparts, would create most-excellent cells around the country ready for world domination...

or something similar (and amusing)

peace-out y'all

gigs this weekend...

word up you crazy cats!! y'all good?

just a quick reminder (in-line with government legislation obviously) that there's three places you can catch the fatbwoi shakin' that thang this weekend... two are beer festivals, and all are free entry so the reasons not to come down and indulge yourself in a bit of thang-shakery are limited...

SAT 180611 - The Cross Keys Beer and Music Festival, Milton Keynes
music all day, fatbwoi onstage @ 17.00hrs

SUN 190611 - Bat and Wicket, Northampton
evening event, doors @ 20.00hrs... feat. music from fatbwoi and stuart o'connor

MON 200611 - Rowell Charter Real Ale and Acoustic Festival, Rothwell
all day event, fatbwoi onstage @ 12.15hrs

hopefully there will be sun, there's sure gonna be fun...

hope to see you there... 8)

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