Brick or Wood? The Fatbwoi Twitter Game

its a brand new craze that's sweeping the nation...

you don't pass go, there is no collecting £200, but everyone you know is gonna be entertained by this amazing new development in gaming...

ladies and gentlemen, for your enjoyment i present...

BRICK OR WOOD?!

both a simple picture game, and an unbeatable catchphrase...

and here, is a tester game for y'all to play along at home...

and as an added incentive, the person with the most correct answers, as posted in the comments section below, will  recieve a free digital copy of the fatbwoi EP of their choice...

1 - BRICK OR WOOD?!

2 - BRICK OR WOOD?!

3 - BRICK OR WOOD?!

4 - BRICK OR WOOD?!

5 - BRICK OR WOOD?!

game on!!

BRICK OR WOOD?!

stereo sound

i think that my hearing is finally coming back...

there have been a couple of moments, both last night and today, where i have realised that i am receiving (more or less) in stereo...

full service is not yet restored, its a bit like a speaker with a loose connection... but the pain has gone, and i know that the full restoration will indeed be glorious...

they are some truly impressive headphones...

where did my hearing go... the short answer is i don't know, away somewhere...

but after the initial "oh my <insert deity here> i've gone deaf, i can never make music again" panic had subsided (days 2 and 3), i've been pretty stoic in dealing with it...

to the point where i only realised today, now that we are in may, that i was in-fact 'receiving in mono' for the majority of april... [and i actually managed to not get run over!!]

the most frustrating thing about it all, is that i have been on a bit of a writing tip of late... and at its worst i couldn't hear the guitar i was playing - i was effectively working off the vibrations... try to hum a melody over that and the guitar is gone... add a little bit of outside noise and everything suddenly gets really confusing...

but its going now...

as far as i understand it, i had some kind of bad-ass infection in my inner ear that produced a lot of gakk... which then bunged up the delicate inner workings off my ear (and tried to take over the rest of my head)...

two courses of progressively larger horse tablets later (the second batch we're bright red "how ill are you" type tablets)... and its only just starting to clear...

i was trying to sort out a click track for a new song the other day, and playing through an earphone into my left (deaf) ear i was hearing a most awesome metronome sound... when i swapped ears it was this hideous flabby distorted bass drum... so in that the deafness did a good thing...

but i'm not planning on using my ears reduced frequency response as a plot for a new extreme drum filter... nuh-uh, i'm just looking forward to being able to lay some stuff down...

as the song says...

"Can You Hear Me Now?"

("honestly?! uhm,... no.")

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

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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

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

the fatbwoi songbook V - can you hear me now?

swingin' in from stage left (as from that way weirdness comes...) with a rebellious demeanour and a slight whiff of popcorn and blue... bustin' some ill advised body poppin' chops designed to make the ladies go... uhm, somewhere... its that one that's NOT called chymn (pronounced chime)

also available in (original) rap-metal variety... the one with the tupac, but probably distinctly lacking in biggie (them's just the facts)... and sometimes garnished with retro-hop rap badness (not included... please collect six vouchers, get a responsible adult* to cut them out and send them along with 60p P+P)

*do not allow the bwoi to handle scissors

i present to you thus...

Can You Hear Me Now? 

so, that train has left the station

ten out of ten for your observation

did you speak to ease the situation

or just because the air was vacant

always seems that something is missing

check it out in the back there's girls and they're kissing

always wanna try something different

it doesn't matter cos no-one's listening

so... can you hear me now?

can you hear me now?

said ah no no no... can you hear me now?

can you hear me now?

stop me if there's something that you don't get

cos' i'm not convinced that you're playing with a full-deck

the odds are stacked in this game of russian roulette

now place the barel upside your head

nobody said that this world was fair

the idea it is a-pretty much out there

and no-one wants to admit they're scared

but look at me does it look like i care

so... can you hear me now?

can you hear me now?

said ah no no no... can you hear me now?

can you hear me now?

(woo-oooh woo-oooh woo-oooh...)

i suppose that i really should mention

just what it is - just what are my intentions

i was born a mother of invention

i don't speak - and you feel the tension

so... can you hear me now?

can you hear me now?

i got nothing to say... can you hear me now?

can you hear me now?

now i've a-run out of patience

there's no more trains there's no more stations

did you speak to ease the situation

cos' its a-seeming to me that the air's still vacant

always seems like something is missing

check it out in the back those girls they're still kissing

always wanna try something different

it doesn't matter cos' no-one is listening

so... can you hear me now?

can you hear me now?

i got nothing to say... can you hear me now?

can you hear me now?

so oh my god... can you hear me now?

are you listening... can you hear me now?

i got nothin' to say... can you hear me now?

and are you happy now?

i don't think i have ever been as into trains as this song might suggest, but i do remember practising the lyrics whilst playing 'the square game' (a posh name for a time-wasting, hanging off the washing machine kinda game we used to play in front of my house - as you do) with kenyon... back int' day, and stuff... wrote it on the bass, the original chorus being one of those bwoi goes matt bellamy moments... happy time