Bleeding Hearts Newsletter
Foxie's Rant
(always slightly different it just looks & sounds the same)
Gigs & Stuff
We have been doing our best to get some gigs lined up, and yippee, one or two nice festivals have duly arrived and are now up on our "Attack" page – that's otherwise known as gigs to you. We are still dangling the iron in the fire and hope to get some more come in so keep an eye out.
Nick Gibbs who used to be a full-time member of 'The Bleeders' will be joining us on fiddle for some of these festivals because, as you know, we still have a vacancy for permanent fiddler.
Partisan - The New Acoustic(ish) Album
The much anticipated (by us) acoustic(ish) album is still under development, although Ewan is getting an increasingly bigger pedalboard to match my own. I say acoustic as that is the plan but there may be the odd dash of plugged-in soundwaves in there somewhere. We can't help ourselves.
We have enough songs, and have done some pre-production but as we are going for stripped down versions of the songs, there is actually quite a bit of re-writing going on and that experimentation is holding us up. That and whatever Ewan is on as he comes up with his trippie hippie riffs, I dunno, Morris Dancers eh?! As ever at The Bleeders camp, things move slowly.
Folk'n'Glory
Oh yeah, it's received rave reviews in Rock'n'Reel and Froots as well as a multitude of other mags and online sources... you can still buy it from us even though stocks are reducing and we have no intention of re-pressing. Just ask, email, or buy online or at a gig of your choice.
Forum
Contact 'keeping it nice since 1972 Ewan Porter hyphen Stevens' if you wanna tell him a story... you can do this via our Facebook which a google reveals is 'bleedingheartsonline' apparently, or just email him at: Ewan@bleedinghearts.co.uk. If that don't work, grab him in Lichfield High Street........ sorry Brownhills, or in the pub somewhere... he likes Old Speckled Hen.
Thatcher
You may be surprised that I have not banged on about ding dong you know what. I'd rather just recite the words of my boyhood hero Billy Bragg:
"This is not a time for celebration. The death of Margaret Thatcher is nothing more than a salient reminder of how Britain got into the mess that we are in today. Of why ordinary working people are no longer able to earn enough from one job to support a family; of why there is a shortage of decent affordable housing... of why cynicism and greed became the hallmarks of our society. Raising a glass to the death of an infirm old lady changes none of this".
That said I did have rather a lot of whiskeys the day she died and thought about what she did to the Miners, The NHS, local democracy, our communities, about what happened at Hillsborough, her support for Pinochet the fascist, her condemnation of Mandela and her support for Apartheid. Yeah, what a British hero. RIP? More like good riddance.
I don't apologise for my views nor am I interested if anybody disagrees with me. The reporting of her death has hardly been balanced with the media and so-called leaders of the left saying what a wonderful woman and great Prime Minister she was. Nope, I am with Scotland on this one - she is a home wrecker and the reason the Scots will divorce us, that's her lasting legacy.
That's all for now!
Foxie
Gigs 2013
27 April: The Wheatsheaf, Leighton Buzzard, UK
(www.thewheatie.co.uk)
22 June: KatieFest Stourbridge Folk & Beer Festival, Halfpenny Green Airport, Stourbridge, UK
(www.katiesfest.com)
17 August: Forever Sun Festival, Dorchester, Dorset, UK
(www.foreversun.co.uk)
6 September: An Sibin, Darmstadt, Germany
7 September: Siegen Festival, Siegen, Germany
13 September: Green Meadows Festival, Peterborough, UK (Cancer Benefit)
21 September: Roscoe Rooms, Scarborough, UK (Animal Rights Benefit)
7 December: Dogfest Festival, The Black Market, Warsop, Notts, UK
8 December: Dog & Partridge, Marchington, UK (Acoustic)
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