Fatbwoi Live @ The Musician 260112

word up you crazy cats!! how's it goin'...?!? all good i hope...

it was proper nice taking to the stage last night for my first gig of the year (and for a while too...) to shake some thang, and open up for the most-awesome magic tombolinos...

and that's not just because the stage is carpeted... (but whilst on the subject, it is a damn nice carpeted stage!!)

it was just nice to shake a lil' dust off the ole' dance moves, grease up the limbs, and play some musics... and i think all-in it went down pretty darn well...

as opening act, my set was quite compact... but i opened with the chicken, before going on to highlight my multi-lingual abilities by counting to six in german (and doing an impression of that bloke in fear factory)...

bullet was well received, i think everyone was happy that (it being january) they didn't have to see me prancing around in the cape... it being january, i wouldn't want to be prancing round in the cape!!

it is a proven fact that leicester is unprepared in-case of zombie apocalypse, and there for it was my preordained civic duty to play Land of the Dead... one day, that song could save your life!!

all-in, a really good night... i really enjoyed it!! and the magic tombolinos were proper jazzed out and awesome... 

big love too, to the crazy cats who came out to shake some thang - made my night!!

so, until the next time...

peace-out y'all!!

NEXT GIG 260112 - supporting The Magic Tombolinos, @ The Musician

word up you crazy cats!!

how's the world with you...

its just over two weeks to my next gig, supporting The Magic Tombolinos @ The Musician in Leicester. Fay Brotherhood is playing, and all in promises to be a quality night of music....

personally i'm proper excited about it...

as rob brydon put it, "they do do energetic... they do nuclear"

this is gonna rock...

tickets are £7adv and can be ordered via this handy link - wegottickets

why not c'mon down - shake some thang?! 8)

some dates for your diary...

word up you crazy cats!!

that's right... i'm back! and in line with both my civic and legal duties, i gotta give you a lil' heads up on some of the dates already in the diary for 2012...

you see, 'the powers that be' dictate that i must warn y'all as to where and whence i am to be found... i don't think they like me, but, when it all comes down to it, what the hell do they know anywho?!

these are the places i'll be... can't wait to see you there...

first gig of the year is January 26th, supporting the most-excellent gypsy rock/jazzer types 'The Magic Tombolinos' at The Musician in Leicester... fay brotherhood is also playing, and i reckon all in this is going to be a stellar night... really excited about this one!!

and my love for the broken amp boy's is one of the greatest loves in modern literary history...

                   THURS JAN 26th - The Musician, Leicester
                   -   supporting The Magic Tombolinos £7adv/£9otd - get tickets

                   MON FEB 27th - Broken Amp @ The Adam and Eve, Birmingham

                   TUES FEB 28th - NB's, Northampton

peace-out y'all

upcoming gigs alert... (avec le widget)

the bwoi will be out once again in public, shaking that thang for your delectation...

and obviously in-line with my civic duty, i just have to tell you where... (its for your own safety, or somebody's safety, i forget...)

to this end, i have pasted this lil' do-hickey with big blobs on a map where i can be found...

that's proper 21st century and everything...

an in plain text that's...

28th August - Rhett Barrow's Album Launch, The Soundhouse, Lecicester

10th September - Artsfest @ The Flapper, Birmingham

11th September - Booze Fusion Festival 2011, The Vic Bikers Pub, Coalville

26th October - Rowell Charter Acoustic Club, Kettering

peace-out y'all

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)

fatbwoi live @ walrus gumboot 010511

word up you crazy cats!! how the devil's are ye?!

last night was the walrus gumboot show at lock 42, supporting young minds... and i had me a most excellent evening right about there... i like

there was of course the usual leicester-related travel disaster... you know how it goes (and this has always been so...) every-time i go over to play in leicester i either : -

a- get lost on the way to leicester, and then seamlessly navigate the one way and get straight to the venue (the best example of this being when i drove to the outskirts of manchester in a moment of northbound/southbound related confusion)

b - get straight to leicester and then grow considerably older as all the roads i need to be there are not... godamn one-way madness grrr....

yesterday was an a, i headed up from the sunny mk, and owing to a "police incident 'on a bridge'", i think it actually took me longer to get there than the manchester episode, so the less said about that the better, one day i will have a helicopter - problem solved.

but enough of that...

there was a whole raft of quality musicians on show yesterday... (and me)

my man rhett was essential as ever, droppin' some quality tunes (first up on his own guitar before unfortunately snapping a string and moving onto ian's guitar)... to misquote zz top, dude got a voice, and he know's how to use it... but seriously, he was over this way for the luau and if you haven't caught up with him yet... you really should. i defy ya to listen in, and not mooch off singing along...

owing to an extreme case of non-organisation i played the 'rhett barrow request' version of my set... its more environmentally friendly as i don't gotta write the set-list down on a too-small-to-be-seen-in-the-dark piece of paper... but did lead to a couple of pauses...

but rhett had me drop some goodies, haven't played back in the day for a while, but my man was most insistent...

probably best if i give the 'fashion model' dance-moves a miss next time though *shock*

last-up was the living legend that is kevin hewick... i haven't seen the mighty kh with his new band before, but they put on a kick ass show... you gotta love kh 8) he delivered a mighty slice of death, death, graveyards and death... and more than just a smattering of 'spiritual energy'... why thank you sir! a top quality set, a visually engaging spectacle that was thoroughly enjoyable...

all-in it was a top night, thanks to ian for putting it on an inviting me to play... good work sir...

and of course if you didn't make it yesterday, or you possibly you did, and you feel like supporting the cause, it is still possible to make a donation through the just giving page, which is approximately here... 

www.justgiving.com/Ian-Babington0

right about now... i'm off to shake that thang again at the old market inn in kettering - happy time!!!

peace-out ya'll