CELTIC FOLK PUNK AND MORE: BLEEDING HEARTS

"Sounds like all my other rants but has new bits interjected to confuse you

NEWS

Well, we don't seem to have much news really, it's actually tuff trying to get gigs this year here and abroad as folks are keeping their money in their wallets and ain't booking the really expensive bands like us, or the really cheap bands like us. So if you are a promoter or booker reading this - we am waitin' for ya call.

We did the first gig of the year at The Wheatie, funnily enough we did the last gig of last year at The Wheatie 'n' all. We love that place and it was a great gig - one chap, a lubberly chap called Paul has kindly posted a review on our furumcumblogcumchatpage so go check it out - we have and he says really nice things about us and we didn't even have to pay him, that's the kind of review we like. I note there was a bloke in the audience who was wearing a 'Brian' t-shirt, just like my pj's, so we did the song just for him hahahah.

I continue to write new songs in little cloud bursts and we are gradually introducing them to the set and including more from Folk 'n' Glory too so that we can reflect where we are now as a band. Fear not, we will include those random oldies too that made us the non-superstars that we are.

If you ain't heard them yet, we have Blackberry Riot, Chains, Uncool, Down The Hatch, and Lost. And there are about 5 others we ain't started on yet.

I would also like to announce that Gel's tackle is working and Ellie gave birth to a boy recently. Gel wanted to call him Isambard after that engineer bloke Brunel who built all the railways - but as it was Ellie that registered the birth, common sense prevailed and she named him George. Good luck to all 3 of them and it explains why Gel has been like a zombie with a hangover of late.

Ewan would like to report the death of his chickens thanks to an errant neighbour's dog and he was right cut up about it, he clucked all the way to the Wheatie and even refused a pickled egg from the chippie before the gig.

Gaz has nowt to say just now 'cus he don't do 'smalltalk' and Lizzie needs a mobile coffee machine now she's taken to actually drinking the stuff on stage in defiance of alcohol.

FOLK N GLORY

Folk 'n' Glory is 11 tracks long. Having been done 1,2,3,4, stylee all together in a room through hot valves straight to our budget pc - and it's got a lo-fi charm all of its own. We went for that 60's/70's vibe with band in a room having fun feel and we thinks that's exactly what we've got. Folk 'n' Glory has quite a retro feel to the music and artwork, which we think you'll be pleased with, we are. Deffo folkier than Politics and on a par with fiddle-punkin' 'Propaganda' for that soundscape to the revolution Foxie is planning every day. Yay, that's getting closer too by the way...

It's received rave reviews in Rock n Reel and Froots as well as a multitude of other mags and online sources... we hear that one mag didn't like it much so we were gonna' send them a horses head through the post but it didn't fit into the jiffy bag so I didn't bother.

FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT

It seems there is no holding Georgie boy back from his relentless attack on people's income and his napalming of the public sector and public services. Of course aided and abetted by Dave and Nicky boy the 'I will do anything for a bit of power' saddo.

All in all I think things will get worse before they get better as they blame our ills on Europe, the workers, the unions or just about anybody but the bloody Bankers who caused it.

I expect more attacks on workers rights in the Social Chapter, and it seems they are now moving in for the kill on national bargaining in the public sector - so those who deliver our services can see even further declines in their income and wider regional variations in wealth to put them on a par with the 'private sector'. And just what bit of the private sector would that be? The top earners? Not on your nelly. They want to make the NHS, Civil Service and Councils riper for privatisation and smash the unions. All in YOUR name. If you voted for that, shame on you. Be careful what you wish for and let's hope you never need to go to hospital and don't have the wedge 'cus their Health reforms are coming like it or not.

It seems we are heading for a big altercation with the chariots of capitalism in the summer. Bring it on and remember to fight the good fight you gotta do it with a song just to really piss 'em off.

WE IS ON I-TUNES ETC ETC.

Yea, you know we are, go check it out or do it the old fashioned way and visit our 'DOSHSWAP' page or come to a Bleedin' gig.

FORUM.

Contact 'keeping it nice since 1972 Ewan Porter hyphen Stevens if you wanna tell him a story.

FINALLY.

We are working on 2012 gigs and have a few irons in the fire that will be posted up as soon as stuff starts getting confirmed, so until then, we hope to see some of you, all of you, new friends, old friends, lost friends at a gig soon, when they eventually happen, so don't be strangers!

Foxie

GIGS 2012

28 April: Katie Fitzgeralds, Wollaston, Stourbridge, UK

(www.katiefitzgeralds.co.uk)

5 May: A Weekend At The Bridges, The Bridges, Ratlinghope, Shropshire - with John Cooper Clarke, Miles Hunt

(www.katiefitzgeralds.co.uk)

4 June: The Wheatsheaf, Leighton Buzzard, UK - Jubilee Bash 3pm

(www.thewheatie.co.uk)

16 June: Odins Rock Club, Commonwealth Road, Garnlydan, Ebbw Vale, Wales (support to Dumpys RN so be early D.O. 8.00pm)

7 July: Lichfield Arts Festival, UK

(www.lichfieldarts.org.uk)

14 to 15 July: Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, TUC event, Dorset, UK