gigs in june

word up you crazy cats!!

just a quick one to let y'all know, in line with my civic duty, all the places that the bwoi can be found and therefore avoided (for the betterment of your health) during the month of june...

busy at the start of the month, with two seperate gigs on the same day, and then it kinda chills in the middle of the month before ending on a high with foxton locks festival... which i am really looking forward to

so its all there for you to digest, in both widget and text formats...and should you decide to shun government advice and come join the bwoi for some thang shakery... well it would be damn lovely to see you!!

JUNE

sun 03 - 3rd Annual Charter Festival, The Charter Inn, Rothwell
sun 03 - Jubilee Music Festival, The Horseshoe, Sywell
wed 06 - The Charter Acoustic Club, Rothwell
sat 30 - Foxton Locks Festival, Market Harborough

JULY

sun 22 - The Artichoke Inn, Moulton
thu 26 - The Golden Lion, Wellingborough 


peace-out y'all

Fatbwoi Live @ Kettering Arts Centre 140412

word up you crazy cats!!

its been a fun (and also hectic) couple of weeks here on planet bwoi... which is, as ever, just how we like it... complete with good friends, thang-shakery, and songwriting - happy time

first up - some of the thang shakery...

saturday 14th was wildfire sessions 1st birthday festival at kettering arts centre... a birthday party like none other, one which the wildfire crew deserved for the quality work they always do, complete with a whole pile of quality tunage...

i caught sets from the legend that is kevin hewick, and budding for-ex trader stevie rigsby (who needs to work on his bartering a lil' bit), as well as my jaike, before dropping some tunes of my own...

opened with the one about the chicken... moved onto the one with the dance moves... as one does, but hereabouts we should perhaps rewind a lil'... for when i took to the stage, i was not alone...

making their first appearance since last summer at the cross keys was the midgetbwoi army, armed with shakers and some funky-ass dance moves...

you have not seen soulful grooving like it (no really - you haven't!!)...

but they (and i) had an ace time, so who can knock it?! there was even a (sort-of) harmony on some of the random bits that they've picked up...

i reckon with the energy expelled by the three of us during that set, we probably could have powered the building for a week - now that's ecologically friendly! 8)

back to the music...

there was a début outing for newbie 'modern condition', which i think went down really well. its a lil' bit slower than some of the others, although still heavily up-swung... fun to play too. its got two riffs, and a lil' bit of "oh dear, what can the matter be?" - fair to say its definitely a bwoi tune...

there was also a first ever acoustic outing for 'wrong', which had previously only ever seen the light of day as an fb5 tune... enjoyed playing that too, without a backing band its a slightly more melodious affair (in that it feels inappropriate doing the shouty bit on the chorus without the bwois behind me) - but all good fun!

finished off with bullet and forces, my dancers exhausted...

all-in it was a really good day, i enjoyed myself (as did the midgetbwoi army) and big love and props go out to stevie and the wildfire sessions crew, not just for putting it on, but for all the work they do year-round providing quality nights at which to enjoy some quality tunes...

thanks guys! and happy birthday

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new dates added...

word up y'all...

just a quick one to let you know about some new dates which have been added to the diary...

first up, i shall be playing at the Wildfire Sessions 1st Birthday Festival on 14th April... that's in kettering, and indoor festival with two stages to celebrate the first year of the wildfire sessions, there'll be over 30 acts and it should be a cracker...

also confirmed is foxton locks festival on 30th June... looking forward to this one as there's some quality musicians playing, and it looks like its going to be a great day out all-in - happy time...

APRIL
sat 14th   - Wildfire Sessions 1st Birthday Festival, Kettering
tues 17th - Wildfire Sessions @ Sunnyside, Northampton
fri 27th    - The O.U. Cellar Bar, Milton Keynes

MAY
fri 25th    - Wildfire Sessions @ The Tollemache Arms, Harrington 

JUNE
sat 30th  - Foxton Locks Festival, Leicestershire

there's a full gig list available via the magic of http://fatbwoi.com/live.html

...its a good site for a mooch. i can heartily recommend it 8)

fatbwoi live @ the old market inn 020511

ja, for sure, and *shock horror* ladies and gentlemen... yup, it would appear that i have actually written three music-related posts in a row!!! cue collapse of world economies and world-wide launch of demented computer virus... like y2k - but bigger

...do i get a goldfish?! probably not... but that does remind me of a recent trip to stourport where i was amazed to see a darts game on the fair where the prize actually was a goldfish (in a bag)... you could of course buy yourself a lil' goldfish bowl of the same stall, for a prize, which struck me as a lil' unsporting...

surely you could make the bowl the prize on the slightly harder machine-gun game next door... and if you only wanted the bowl not a goldfish... well, job's a good 'un...

zombie goldfish... ina bowl

but the music (yes always with the music and NEVER with the lasers... obviously)...

went down the a14 last night to shake some thang at the old market inn, kettering... and i done did have a me a most-excellent time...

opened with... well a technical hitch, as the white lead decided it was no longer for this world... so actually opened with 8bars of beat-boxin', as you do... and then the one with the chicken...

then the bwoi done did drop a slice of metallica... its always cool if, whilst explaining its (complete non-) relation to the original if i can persuade a couple of people to hum the original bassline to themselves... its a short and sweet one - and i do enjoy playing it....

stevie caught a lil' vid of jazz hands... i noticed that i actually missed a 'jazz hands' there, so if anyone was playing along... i'm sorry, i left you hanging for a while there...

all-in it was a top night, proper enjoyed it... thanks to stevie for inviting me to play...

that's two stops down the a14 in the past week... one at j3, the other at j7... was talking to the big O on the funk-telefon earlier, and we came to the conclusion that i should arrange an a14 tour... see if i can get all the way to felixstowe?! gotta be good for a giggle right?! and the tour t-shirt can ripped straight from the a-z...

happy time