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)

Jazz Hands - Live @ Musoplex

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

remember that lil' trip to musoplex way back in january, for an interview and some filming...?! well the music video from that night has emerged from the editing suite, and is now available for your delectation via the magic of youtube... and this blog...

crazy lights, some funny faces, and a lil' bit of counting auf deutsch... educational!!

so without further ado...

Fatbwoi - Jazz Hands Live @ Musoplex

big love, and maximum thanks go out to andy and the abstract reaction video boys for making it possible, and eventually providing coffee in addition to audio visual giggles...

peace-out y'all

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...

parva doodles on XRP...

word up y'all!!

i hope the world is good with you...

unfortunately i didn't win the band vs. band feature on Gashouse Radio, which was a bit of a bummer, but i quite enjoyed listening to Only the Good and we definitely had some fun in the chat-room...

i did however pick up enough votes to get my tracks into rotation... so maximum thanks to everyone who voted bwoi!! dustin was well up for me sending some new tracks in too, so don't be surprised if you hear more fatbwoi over at http://www.gashouseradio.com 8)

'the patient' was played out on sunday night, in-between RHCP and artist of the week Boog - happy time

right about there, it got a bit freaky-deeky (in a good way)...

because at exactly the same time, it was playing out on XRP Radio too...

and i gotta give big props, love and thanks to those cats over at XRP for their constant support... they've been playing fatbwoi tracks since the release of 'Relentless', and on sunday they played out all of 'Parva Doodles'... hell yes

and dj tizzy, for one, especially seemed to dig it... dog food went down surprisingly well, there was a studio based rendition of the chorus after it had finished, and some crazy ideas for a video...

have to see how that one develops, but i'll tell you one thing for sure...

i'm keeping my clothes on this time!!

but seriously, i'm extremely happy with the way that 'parva doodles' has been recieved... there's been a lot of positive feedback across the board. i never expected it, given its roots as a studio 'doodle'...

thanks

gonna go and watch some near-naked-pleasure-future type sci-fi now, and talk to dudley (still not my cat) about that cat-fart type smell emanating from his general direction...

peace-out y'all 8)

Band vs. Band - Gashouse Radio 070212

Band vs. Band

Fatbwoi vs. Only the Good

070212 - 17.00ET [22.00GMT]

http://www.gashouseradio.com

word up you crazy cats!!

tonight, 3 tracks from Parva Doodles will be featured on the Brain Office show, as part of the 'Band vs. Band' feature... its a kind of winner stays on arrangement, 3 tracks from each band are played back-to-back throughout the show with the artist receiving the most votes staying 'on' until the next show...

votes can be cast (for free) either via the website, or via iphone/android app...

and i may need one or two, as if they make it through tonight's show, the 'other' band will have won eight in a row, which i believe is a record...

so if you fancy tuning in, checking out some brand new alternative bwoi sounds, and maybe throwing a vote or two this way... that'd be most cool, and you know there'd be all big-love-atcha long time...

i'm looking forward to it...

peace-out y'all

The Patient (Cult of Wedge Mix)

ever wonder what would happen if you routed the output of the oddities channel on the fatbwoi filter, through the retro-space age 'cult of wedge' machine...?!

well you crazy cats, you need wonder no-longer!!

that's right! there was a meeting of boffin's somewhere, probably in a hi-tech cave type set-up deep underground, and it is with great pleasure that i present to you the product of said meeting...

so without further ado, why not let the sound of fatbwoi vs. cult of wedge make happy in your ears... (i love that whole 'vs.' thing, and with us two involved there'd almost certainly be lightsabers...)



you can stream it, and download a plush wav version via this lil' widget thing...

a smaller, more portable, mp3 version of the file can be downloaded from bandcamp...

find out more about cult of wedge - here
hear the original version of the patient - here

peace-out y'all

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