La Bell Photos

So the grand news is The Bell makses a kicking little rock and roll venue. Great night and darn, The Pale Blue Eyes, they just shone. Everyone could feel it, they just frickin ruled. Definately gonna head back there soon. Cheers to Charlotte for taking some pics.

A couple of vids from Limelight Theatre

I dig Open Mikes. You got a host of performers that do a couple of songs. Nice n short, if you're getting bored. You never know what you gonna see, poetry, rap, 14 year old Rage Against the machine covers, 4 year old singers and a whole bunch of sinners. They often kind of get taken over by Dylan coverers, but if there's a balance, well that's cool too.

One the greatest open mike nights for variety is at the Limelight Theatre in Aylesbury run by Pete. As other venues come and go in Aylesbury, say what you like, this show keeps on running. Its got integrity.

Another great night is the Catweazle Night in Oxford which has been running well over 10 years. No electricity, shout yer songs out, candles and real ale. I really need to get back down there.

Anyway, here's a couple of vids from the Limelight night that I did a couple of years ago. My rattlin away seems to have got a little more popular since Seasick Steve showed how its done on tv.

So if ya fancy a gander, just meander up the links below:

Set yer Slinky to Stun - This Saturday

I dig slinkys. They happily shimmer down the staircase in a profoundly organized manner, and end up neatly stacked waiting to go round again. And the sound is tingling.

So we're gonna slinky and shuffle down the Bell Hotel this Saturday. We got support from the Pale Blue Eyes doing an acoustic set and DJ Squidelica up from London to munch through a pile of garage rock vinyl.

Seems like long time since we played in Aylesbury...

Here and by the way, the photo in the poster is a publicity still from a Japanese 70s film called Girl Boss Gurilla. A film that mixes Straw Dogs with Hello Kitty. I haven't seen it yet, but been dying to see it since seeing the pricey Pinky Violence boxset cover below. Sure is pretty.

Rumbold Shoots

Rumbold is an old friend of the band and a dab hand at the photographic image. He came down to Runway Studios to take a few pics out on the Runway. For y'all who don't know the studio. Its out on this wasteland of abandoned WWII runway field outside Aylesbury. Wasteland is a good word. You get these amazing sunsets and weird stuff rusting away stretched over what seems miles. Kind of Aylesbury's inland version of Dungeoness, another great wasteland. Though in a competition of wastelands, Dungeoness has a minature railway and nuclear power station, its gonna win.

Rumbolds website

Towersey

A couple of weeks a go we played this gig in the middle on knowhere. I thought Aylesbury was exact center on knowhere, but if you head 15 miles south to the small town of Thame and then 2-3 miles down a dead end road to a sleepy village, you found Towersey. Nice place, nice people but as knowhere goes it is pretty close. We thought we were playing in the Three Horsehoes pub but nope, head across the car park to a converrted barn which looks like a medieval chapel and you've found it.

So on top of this, it was £7 on the door and in aid of charity. So ya can see our expectations of playing to more than a doorman were pretty slim. But this crazy things happens, it sells out, the place is heaving, we setup lights and a stage, the beer is flowing, everyone a dancing n a jiggin. For 2-3 hours knowhere seems like friggin good place to be. Had a magical night.

Just wanted to say cheers to the guys promoting it, Bloke, Mungo and everyone who came down and made it cool. And dif ya got photos, send us some.

Photo from snapsandbytes.co.uk

Subsiren II

Here be the cracking new poster for the next Subsiren gig at the 31 Below is up. Kerry did it and its wicked. Hopefully gonna get these events happening a bit more regularly schoonish. These are strange bunch of hynoptic bipedal bands.

Last Subsiren event was cracking n fizzing with a full house, this one aint gonna be no different.

http://www.myspace.com/subsiren

This be bootstrap at the last event.

March in all its hariness

A couple o gigs this munth fer Bootstrap. Kinda busy and then smack bang in the middle I get to see the Sonics at the Forum. Plus we involved in the Subsiren aylesbury thang of getting bands in and about playing round Aylesbury. So if ya fancy one here be they are at so yeah yah?

Thursday 21st March - Subsiren at 31Below, Aylesbury. £5

We aint playing this one but have brought in some crazy bands for ya to see. Alexandria Quartet, The Electric Kool-Aid Company and the Swamis.

Easter Sunday - The Swan, Thame. Free!

Bootstrap dig and Bloke dang. Sunday night its gonna bang bong biff, runnin until midnight.

Friday 28th March - Monopoly 8 at the Oh Bar. Camden

The Tube Club guys have put on a evening of bands, we're somewhere jiggin in the middle at 10 pm. The other bands be Just Morale, Broken Waves, GST Cardinals, Cutout Blonde. All sorts of craziness going on from all over de place.

At some point inbetween we'll get the single out and present it to ya poisonally.