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Sergeant Buzfuz – “Here Come The Popes Part 3” out today!
Here’s the official video (no, I’m not in it!)
[youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ava9nyQk7v0]
Here’s the stuff off the website/blog:
SERGEANT BUZFUZ SINGLE OUT MONDAY/LAUNCH GIG FRIDAY 26TH
The
new Sergeant Buzfuz single “Here Come The Popes Part 3″ is released on
Monday Sep 22nd. The limited edition 7” purple vinyl single is
available form all good record shops and from www.normanrecords.com
Also available as a download from i-Tunes, www.finetunes.net and all other download stores. B side is “Dentist To The Stars”
“like the Pogues beating up My Life Story….Single of the month by a mile” (Playlouder)
“a bizarre string-driven song about those popes of the middle ages that’s kind of XTCish” (Organ)
“Like the Soft Boys, this is unselfconsciously smart-pop, with a noir-psychedelic twist” (Sounds XP)
“Wow” (Mark Lamarr, Radio 2)
“Absolutely brilliant” (Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music)
“they have taken the Sixties back catalogue and asked Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci to give it a remix” (bbc.co.uk London Calling site)
http://playlouder.com/content/17368/september-singles-review
http://www.organart.demon.co.uk/neworgan270.htm
http://soundsxp.com/artman2/publish/singlesSgt_Buzfuz_Here_Come_the_Popes_Part_3.shtml
SINGLE LAUNCH AT BETSEY TROTWOOD FRIDAY SEP 26
SKU Events presents: Sergeant Buzfuz Here Come The Popes Part 3 single launch
Friday September 26th
Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BL
10 Sergeant Buzfuz
9 15 Kinkajou
8 30 Michael Eden
£5 entry (no concessions).
Tickets available from Ticketweb:
Nearest tube Farringdon
Map: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=531359&y=182185&z=0&sv=ec1r+3bl&st=2&pc=ec1r+3bl&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
Sergeant Buzfuz live session on BBC Radio 6
Tom Robinson is a very nice man. You should check out his show some time. I must admit I didn’t realise he did that song “2-4-6-8 Motorway”, which I actually know.
We played Here Come The Popes Part 3, Rebellion, and Cab, and Tom even happily accepted a Goodbye Serrgeants cd off me. We’re even getting paid too. Unbelievable.
(Thanks to Joe for mentioning Goodbye Sergeants to Tom in the first place…)
The Splendour at Beachdown Festival, Brighton, 24/8/08
The final date on the tour. What better way to mark such an occasion than looking like a complete arse. My first time on a proper festival stage, my first time wearing a plastic wig and all in one jumpsuit on a stage in general, and my last time seeing the Reckless Sons before they bid their merry way back across the pond. Good times. Or maybe just times.
Sam LeGassick on BBC Radio 6 – Sunday August 31st
Sam LeGassick teams up with Queens of Noize on BBC Music 6 at 8pm – 10pm to do his own mix. You can listen to it through either DAB (digital radio), online on http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/ or Sky 0120, Freeview 707, Freesat 708, or Virgin 909/
He even managed to play our own crappy demo for The Answer!
Cat in a suit
Goodbye Sergeants update – August 2008
So what has been going on with Goodbye Sergeants of late? If you’ve been checking the site/blog or the myspace you’ll see things have been a little quiet, but that doesn’t mean we’re not doing anything, far from it! The last show the band played was back on June 1st, on the bandstand in Sutton town centre. Pretty random gig really, especially as our slightly-acquired-taste-noise was following 2 acts playing covers, you know of like, recogniseable songs! It was a great gig though, probably the best since MJ joined the band, and people seemed to actually enjoy the tunes too, which was an unexpected bonus for us! I remember the sound guy asking us if we could ‘tone it down’ before we went on; I remember ignoring that, then I remember getting really wasted afterwards and not a lot else. Oh, now I do remember jumping off the stage to go and sing with a child who seemed to be getting into the music, but then stopping a bit short when I realised I was scaring the hell out of her.
So yeah, as for ‘updates’ on GS, we’re currently working on new music, which is why we haven’t done any gigs for a while. Also, we thought it would be cool to have a bit of a break anyway, go on holidays, make music with other people, that kind of thing.
We went into the studio a couple of weeks ago, just before I went on holiday, and just spent a couple of hours getting down drums for 4 new tracks. jon’s obviously the best drummer ever, so it didn’t take him long to nail the parts. We’re then gonna record everything else ourselves. So far, Jules has redone his bass, I’ve re-recorded my guitars, and started the vocals for 2 of the tracks round Matt’s. I have to say, Matt is an absolute genius, not only with the guitar, but when it comes to production, it is just amazing listening to some of these first mixes he’s done, and I can’t wait for you to hear them once they’re finished. I’ll be posting some official updates on the GS site and Myspace when they’re up.
In the meantime, Matt is also lending his skills to another little project I’m involved with…
The Splendour – “Money” video
[youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dLSlMoU8gdE]
Sergeant Buzfuz 12 Bar Tonight
Ok, so thanks to all who showed up/hung around to see us play the bandstand in Sutton! We had a really great time despite our concerns (they also told us to ‘tone it down’ a bit just before we went on, which we basically ignored), and got a much better reaction than we were expecting!
Now, the band have no more shows booked for a while, but I thought you might be interested that I am trading in my charismatic/arrogant/annoying frontman persona to sit behind the drums again for a gig tonight at the 12 Bar Club with Sergeant Buzfuz. Should be on about 9.15, and the set will be dominated by new songs from the band’s as yet unreleased 4th album… tracks from which you can listen to on their myspace (i’m not playing on them before you ask)
here’s the info from the mailout… Maybe see you there!
BLANG @ THE 12 BAR PRESENTS:
12 BAR CLUB, DENMARK STREET, WC2
WEDNESDAY JUNE 11TH
MICHAEL EDEN
SERGEANT BUZFUZ
THE BOYCOTT COCA-COLA EXPERIENCE
and a late set from HEAD AND SHOULDERS
£5
Doors 7.30
Bar ‘till 1 am.
10 45 HEAD AND SHOULDERS
Head and Shoulders are Jowe Head (TV Personalities/Swell Maps/Olive’s Hairy Custard/Angel Racing Food/etc) and Lee McFadden (Alternative TV/ARF). Surreal off-kilter pop songs in bright colours laced with vintage Bernard Albrechtian guitar riffs.
10 00 MICHAEL EDEN
Looped ethereal hymns reverberating from a melting star. Sheffield’s Michael Eden favours leaving the stage while heavy-breathing to the audience through a telephone.
www.myspace.com/michaeleden
9 15 SERGEANT BUZFUZ
“like Nick Cave on the dole” (Sounds XP)
“REM would kill, hopefully each other, for songs like these” (Unpeeled)
“uneasy listening” (Flux)
www.myspace.com/sergeantbuzfuz
8 30 THE BOYCOTT COCA-COLA EXPERIENCE
Nursery rhymes slowed down to funereal pace. Like a narcotic English folk tale version of Patrick McCabe’s ‘The Butcher Boy’ as soundtracked by Syd Barrett and Jake Thackeray.
www.myspace.com/bcce
www.12barclub.com
www.blang.co.uk
Sutton Town Centre Music Festival – Sunday 1st June
So, after our pretty successful jaunt up the M6 at the weekend to play the legendary Cavern Club and Lennon’s, we return to a slightly more local setting for us by playing the Sutton Town Centre Music Festival on Sunday 1st June.
We’ll be playing on the Millenium Bavarian Beer Garden stage (we think that’s basically the bandstand near The Moon on the Hill), at 3pm. We’ll be on after 2 covers acts, so naturally we’ll probably confuse the hell out of everyone, but there you go.
Ratty Rat Rat at Astoria 2 – Saturday 24th May
On Saturday night I randomly ended up playing drums with a trendy indie band called Ratty Rat Rat, in front of a reasonable sized crowd of equally trendy young men and women and the Astoria 2 in London.
I say “randomly” because I auditioned for the band a week before, thought it went quite well, didn’t hear anything from their manager though, then on the Thursday night got a call asking if I could do the gig in 2 night’s time. (Funnily enough, the very Thursday night I’d had a second audition/rehearsal with Sergeant Buzfuz and been asked to join them.)
Anyway, I’d played with the band for a total of about 30 minutes at this point, but thought “fuck it”, in at the deep end and all that. So, friday afternoon I was round their squat in Camberwell that they share with a guy from Shitdisco and the girlfriend of the singer in the Mystery Jets (I told you they were trendy) rehearsing for probably another 30 minutes in some dank, underground basement. I thought it was rather endeering though when I turned up and Gary the guitarist said “please excuse the mess.”
So how was the gig? To be honest I can’t remember that much of it. I remember getting quite drunk to calm my increasing nerves, and then not being able to hear a damn thing on stage, then it all being over really quickly and everyone being pretty pleased with how it went. My nerves weren’t helped by some obsessive fan type called Daniel who claimed the band were his all time favourite and that he’d come all the way down from Reading to see them. When I first bumped into him at the bar I thought he was going to try and get off with me when I casually mentioned to him the reason I was there was to play drums with them.
Turns out I was just filling in for another drummer they actually knew who was joining the band but just couldn’t do that particular gig, but I wish them all the very best as I really like the tunes and they’re nice lads too.
International Pop Overthrow Festival
Goodbye Sergeants are playing 2 shows in Liverpool this weekend as part of the International Pop Overthrow Festival:
at The Cavern Club on Sunday (25th) – on stage 14:15,
and at Lennon’s on Bank Holiday Monday (26th) – on stage 17:00
Check out http://www.internationalpopoverthrow.com/ for more info on the festival, but for your convenience, here are the lineups for the 2 dates/venues we’re playing:
Sunday, May 25.
The Cavern Club.
Back Stage
12:45 Ben’s Diapers
..1:30 Steve Roberts & ZenBank of England
..2:15 Goodbye Sergeants
..3:00 Private Jets
..3:45 Beneva
..4:30 The Generous Days
..5:15 Rinaldi Sings
..6:00 Paul Bevoir
..6:45 Squire
..7:30 The Temponauts
..8:15 The Broken Hearts
..9:00 Automat
..9:45 The Afternoons
10:30 We Should Be Dead
11:15 The Cherry Bluestorms
12:00 Airwaves
12:45 The Anydays
..1:30 Robert Post
..2:15 Jeremy
Monday, May 26
Lennon’s
1:15 Mark Sander and The Evil Geniuses
2:00 The Low
2:45 SideFields
3:30 The Making
4:15 The Generous Days
5:00 Goodbye Sergeants
5:45 The Tamborines
6:30 Peter Colours
7:15 Telaphones
8:00 Keller
Hope to see you there!
Rare London Show – Bullet Bar, tonight!
Thank the Lord for the Art Genius of Jon Shortt for giving us all a reason to get up in the morning! Yes, it’s another beautiful flyer, for another beautifully noisy gig, this time tonight at the Bullet Bar in Kentish Town, on stage around 10:30.
This is our only headlining London gig for a while, and we’ll be playing a load of new stuff, which is obviously very exciting for us, and makes it marginally less tedious for you. Hope to see you there. Check out a location map here: http://www.bulletbar.co.uk/map.htm