Bands

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Xmas Noise

Hey, you know that gig I mentioned a couple of blog posts back? Well here it is. We played 11 songs (actually surprisingly well) and what’s not to like about a sweaty man in his 30s playing drums in a Xmas jumper? (Great drum fills after around 39:40! ha!)

Setlist:
1. One of Five a Day
2. Valentine
3. Cosmonaut (At the Drive In Cover)
4. Song 1 (Gang of Jealous Pistols)
5. A Wing & A Prayer
6. Vitiminium
7. Do What You Want
8. Settle
9. He Giveth (MeccaMen)
10. Broken English
11. Paint Your Own

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Drums and that

You know, “back in the day” I used to do a lot of music stuff. Now I don’t do so much. But here’s me doing a bit. I play drums in a band called The Pistol Gang & The Preacher (with Sam of Rich Keeble Vanity Project fame and Matt Jarman of Goodbye Sergeants fame). We’re doing a gig on Saturday at Matt’s studio in Tottenham. Why not come along!

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Pistol Gang gig


The Pistol Gang return to the live scene on Friday 16th July in Shorditch, with Matt Jarman back on bass, and a load of new, raw and heavier sounding songs. Should be a great one for a Friday night so see you there!

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White Lion, Streatham, Jan 31st 2010

The usual cliche rock and roll ending

Goodbye Sergeants are back! Well, they were for a bit. The band was asked by Sergeant Buzfuz’s Joe Murphy, who I used to play drums for, to headline a night for his Blang label at the White Lion in Streatham. It turned out to be for a charity called Music for Kids, who have an orphange in Nepal. We donated our fee back to the charity partly for the cause, and partly for the fact we didn’t deserve for being so fucking shit. God it was cold in there though: no heating. Apart from that, a good night.

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I Used To Be Loner Animated Video

So here’s the stop motion video for new track I Used To Be A Loner. This was, perhaps obviously, done by taking loads of photos in Matt’s kitchen. If you happened to catch on to the very low-key update when this was first uploaded, you may have seen a little bit more of me than you would’ve liked in one scene, so we re-uploaded it with a bit of extra blurring.

Anyway, hope you enjoy the song which we’ll be releasing (as the full version, this is an edit) some time in the new year. It’s obviously a bit of a departure from our previous output, but we’re just crazy like that. Matt wrote this one; I just did the crappy keyboard stuff that comes in later in the full version. Oh, and my beautiful voice of course.

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Pistol Gang back at the Dublin Castle Dec 11th 2009

Paint Your Own
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Broken English
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On Saturday 11th December, the Pistol Gang went back to the Dublin Castle in Camden, the venue for our first (disastrous) gig where Sam cut his eye open with his guitar. This time he cut his head open again, but by smashing the mic into his head repeatedly. Don’t try that at home kids.

It was actually a great gig though: Matt was back for a one-off on bass, and I really enjoyed locking in with him. I also didn’t play like shit because I was sober, and a random guy I met on the train the day before came along and bought be drinks afterwards. That all actaully cancelled out the annoyance from the 2 pretentious twat bands who each insisted on bringing their own drums, but then wouldn’t let anyone else use them. Get over yourselves.

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Making the new GS “Toys/I Used To Be A Loner” animated video

Video Shoot - haha great pun.
Video Shoot - haha great pun that.

You may be interested to know that last night was our third  session of shooting for the new Goodbye Sergeants video. It’s for a new song that we’ve never performed before called I Used To Be A Loner, working title Toys.

 The video itself is an animation, or possibly the term is “stop motion” as it’s mainly myself and members of the band being animated.

Taped
Can you tape that for me?

As you can probably imagine with this or any kind of animation, it can take quite a long time, but we’re getting there. I’ll post an update in due course.

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Beachdown Cancelled

Down with Beachdown
Down with Beachdown

Saw this in the Metro this morning, very upsetting obviously. I reckon the poor ticket sales were purely because everyone knew me and the Splendour boys weren’t going to be playing in our lycra again like last year. Hopefully the organisers will have learnt from their mistake.

Of course, it’s possible The Splendour were actually booked to play and I just didn’t know about it. They never return my calls.

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New GS song preview: I Love To Piss You Off

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmpWEuwpmnI]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmpWEuwpmnI

For anyone who’s still interested in Goodbye Sergeants, here’s a preview of a new song called I Love To Piss You Off. This is just us laying down backing tracks in Rob’s studio in Bromley, so we’re recording a take of drums and bass, while the vocals and guitar are just guides, or at least that’s my excuse anyway. Incidentally, I hate the way I look in front of the camera, really self concious. Makes me cringe in places.

I thought this was worth posting anyway because it’s quite funny how it disintegrates at the end. Jon was in another room so we couldn’t actually see him, or apparantly, communicate with him. Most of the time we at least pretend we know what we’re doing.

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Matt Quits Pistol Gang

It saddens me to report that bass playing, moustache growing, and fellow Goodbye Sergeants moonlighter extraordinaire Matt Jarman has decided to leave  The Pistol Gang & The Preacher. There’s not a lot more for me to say at this point, other than Matt will still be playing in Goodbye Sergeants, and that I will post any further news as to who will fill the now vacant bassist slot when I know it myself. Does anyone care? Is anybody listening?

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I Quit Sergeant Buzfuz

Yes, on Saturday 21st March I played my last gig with Sergeant Buzfuz at the New Cross Inn.

The supporting band was Dynamo Garage, who were actually pretty good. The singer sounded a bit like the guy from Shed 7, but I didn’t hold that against them. The drummer was amazing, and when I told him he just said “thanks” instead of “yeah, I know” like some arrogant dicks do, so good on him. Anyway, after the gig I couldn’t actually remember any of their songs, but I remembered they were good, so check them out.

So why did I decide to quit? It wasn’t anything to do with the music or the other band members, I just didn’t really feel like playing gigs at the moment, and didn’t want to be committed to anything right now. At the time of writing this, I have no other gigs lined up with Goodbye Sergeants or The Pistol Gang either, so I am just looking forward to a bit of a break, taking some pressure, and just seeing what happens.

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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

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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

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My Telephone Voice – new demos

A little while ago I started working on some demos at home of songs that I had which weren’t intended for Goodbye Sergeants, and therefore wasn’t really sure what to do with them. I came up with the name My Telephone Voice for a kind of ‘solo’ project which would include these songs, and would maybe do some shows at some point in the future.

Anyway, if you’re interested, I’ve put some of these demos (Lazy, X, The Roof of My Mouth, Make Yourself at Home) up at www.myspace.com/mytelephonevoice

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