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)

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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...