Marc Riley
Here’s me with Marc Riley after playing on his BBC 6 show in Manchester. He’s actually posing with the whole band here, not just me, but this is my blog so I’ve cut them out so you can see me better. My blog, my rules. Really nice guy.
January 2009
SGT BUZFUZ NEW SINGLE/LIVE ON BBC 6 MONDAY
We’re up to Manchester tomorrow (Monday) to play 3 tracks live on Marc Riley’s show on BBC Radio 6. I think we’re doing Itis/Drinking Friends, Here Come the Popes Part 4 and Rebellion with Fries. Oh yeah, and the single’s out too! Here’s the mailout:
SGT BUZFUZ NEW SINGLE/LIVE ON BBC 6 MONDAY
GOD TO HOLLOWAY
Sergeant Buzfuz have a new download-only single out on Blang this Monday Jan 26.
A side: God To Holloway
B side: Go Hoot, Owl Lady
From all download shops.
Catalogue no: BLANG 15
If you can’t wait until Monday it’s available to early birds from today at www.finetunes.net
A side is a different version to the one on forthcoming ‘High Slang’ album (out Feb 9). B side is a remix and anagram of A side.
LIVE ON MARC RILEY SHOW
We’re playing a live session on Marc Riley’s show this Monday night at 7 pm on BBC 6 Music. We’ll be having a chat and playing 3 songs, one at 7pm and two at about 7 35.
Tune in on DAB/Internet/Freeview TV Channel 707
Mon Jan 26th at 7 pm.
The new single has a review at Supersweet:
http://www.supersweet.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=976&Itemid=27
ALBUM LAUNCH GIG
“High Slang” album launch party:
12 Bar Club
Wednesday February 4th
Onstage 10 pm
£5
Sergeant Buzfuz X
I hate my phone even more
A while ago I posted on here about how annoying my phone is – http://richkeeble.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/i-hate-my-phone/
Well, the other day it just crashed completely, so I had to reinstall the software from their website. This was apparantly the same as sending it off for repair, and basically wiped everything that wasn’t on the sim or the memory card. As phones these days default to storing numbers on the phone memory instead of the sim it means that I have lost every number i’ve put in there since I got the damn thing last year, so if I don’t call you it’s probably to do with that. Or maybe I don’t like you. It’s hard to tell these days isn’t it.
Solo show at the Halfmoon, Putney
So it would seem that interestingly* my first gig as a married man is also my first proper solo show.
I’ll be playing at the Halfmoon Unplugged night on Monday 19th January, so please come along if you can. I’ll only be playing a very short set, but it’s only a couple of quid to get in, and there’s loads of other acts worth checking out too. Here’s the listing:
1030 Ryan O’Reilly http://www.myspace.com/ryanoreilly
1010 Roger Styles http://www.myspace.com/rogerstyles
950 Gus Macgregor http://www.myspace.com/gusmacgregor
930 Jono and the Jackdaws http://www.myspace.com/jonoandthejackdaws
910 Alex Priddice http://www.myspace.com/alexpriddice
850 Rich Keeble http://www.myspace.com/mytelephonevoice
830 Richard James http://www.myspace.com/musicbyrichardjames
815 Redvers Bailey http://www.myspace.com/theyareone
I haven’t actually decided what I’ll be playing yet, but it’ll probably be a mixture of Goodbye Sergeants songs and the other stuff I’ve been putting up on www.myspace.com/mytelephonevoice
Naturally the fact that I can’t blame anyone but myself for anything going wrong on the night scares the crap out of me.
Halfmoon Putney, 93 Lower Richmond Road, London SW15
*not really I suppose
I met Jimmy Carr
Now I don’t know about you but I quite like Jimmy Carr. We were in a restaurant in Cambridge when he walked in and got seated somewhere a bit hidden out of the way, clearly not wanting to be disturbed. I asked the waitress whether it would be bad etiquette to go and say hi to him and she implied that maybe it would be, as he often comes in and asks to be sat somewhere away from prying eyes. However, I went and did it anyway. I do remember feeling a slight flicker of fear as he had to pause his ipod and take out his earphones, but he was actually very nice. He even pointed out to my wife that she had her finger over the flash during her first attempt at taking this photo. Does he look slightly uncomfortable to you?
I got married
Yes, on Friday 9th January 2009, I got married in secret to my girlfriend Vicky in Croydon registry office. Well, the friends, sibling and bandmates in the above photo above knew of course, but nobody else – not even our parents. Most people took the news pretty well when we told them the following day though, and if you know me and I still haven’t actually told you, I’m sorry.
Anyway, we had a great day, took everyone out for a meal and drinks, and it really worked for us not having to worry about excessive organisation and the like.
- pretending to sign the book
Incidentally, did you know you’re not allowed to be photographed signing the register? You sign a form and then they bring a fake register that you can sign for the cameras. Amazing.
In The London Paper
So I’m sitting on the train on the way home from work just listening to the ipod and not bothering to read any of the crumpled London Paper or London Lites littered around the carriage, when I get a text saying I’m in the paper. For a split second I think it must just be a gig listing buried in the back somewhere, before I suddenly remember answering a load of questions for a friend at work who knows someone who writes for the London Paper just before xmas.
Grabbing a copy as I got off the train not only confirmed that this was what the text was indeed referring to, but also that the promise of not printing our real names had been ignored, and that they’d also printed where we live and where we work. Thanks.
There’s also an online version here if you missed it and remotely give a toss: http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/love/article/1157158442231?packedargs=aid%3D1157158442231%26suffix%3DArticleController