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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Tshirts Out and About

kevin from ExmouthI knew I'd forget to tell you something....

At Glastonbury, we wandered into the real ale tent to see a guy wearing a Reoffenders t shirt. Turns out to be Kevin who we got up on stage at Exmouth on his birthday. It was great to see the t shirt out and about and to learn that half an hour earlier, a guy from Taunton had been there wearing one. Yay!


posted by Heather Morphy-Richards at 9:20 AM

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the T shirt made in back home in one piece not so sure i did,hope u had a good one

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Festivals

The new rhythm section has been sitting at home twiddling their thumbs for a couple of weekends whilst we've been off to see other bands at festivals, starting with Download.

Indesit, Hoover and I went up the other weekend and were treated to Sevendust, Slipknot, Trivium, Therapy?, Volbeat, Faith No More, Chris Cornell and Pendulum, no name a few. We were also subjected to the mess that was the end of Marilyn Manson's career! Shame, he used to be rather good live. But we did have 4 days of perfect sunshine which was great!

This last weekend saw Hoover and I going up to Glastonbury Festival for Madness, Specials, Gaslight Anthem and the show of the weekend from Pendulum. Awesome stuff which made Bruce Springsteen rather dull afterwards. There have also been several reports of the BBC cameras picking up Johnny Hoover dancing down the front at Status Quo! And he's not in the slightest bit repentant! Apologies to anyone who was offended by it (yes, that does include you, Rob).

We did have a couple of days of sunshine but also had 9 hours of uninterrupted rain on Friday. Only in Glastonbury!

The mud has been shaken off, the wellies are back in the cupboard and we're back and ready to raawwwwk! Let post festival blues be banished by the power of Punk Rock!


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Monday, June 22, 2009

Crackin' Weekend!


Ok, so if John and I had known that we'd be bedding in a new rhythm section, we perhaps wouldn't have chosen to bugger off to festivals every other weekend. Weekends off between great weekends of gigs are a bit frustrating. The newbies (how long can I call them that?) are settling in well but need gig practice which isn't helped by me, Hoover and Indesit going off to Download, and then me n Hoover going off to Glastonbury next week! Ho hum!

Anyhoooo, we had a great gig on Friday at the New Quay in Teignmouth. Teignmouth was having a folk festival (!!!!!) and we were playing the New Quay, specifically cos it was Ian the Landlord's birthday and he wanted a fun night! The place was full to the rafters with an appreciative audience who were up for something non folky! Yay!

The highlight had to be Seasons in the Sun (which time?) with a pub full packed in like sardines bobbing up and down whilst 'doing the dance'. Good to meet Mrs Magimix :-) Plans seem to be afoot for a rather messy Cornwall tour by the sounds of it! LOL!


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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Big Thanks to Exeter City Fans

We appear to have some friends that we didn't know about! A friend mentioned to me last night that our Exeter gigs regularly get a mention on the Exeter City FC discussion forums.

That's very cool! Thanks you lot :-D


posted by Heather Morphy-Richards at 12:09 PM

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Best not tell these lovely people who Madge,s local team is!!!

By Blogger Paul Magimix, at 6:34 PM, June 09, 2009  

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Sunday, June 07, 2009

Better Than the Weather!

We were woken early yesterday by the sound of thunder. Very loud thunder which appeared to be just above our house! arrrgh! The heavens opened and it rained, and rained, and rained...

And continued to rain all day and followed us up the M5 towards Minehead.

It was our first visit to the York in Minehead which is a nice sized pub with a stage and proper lighting. Nice! We like it like that :-)

After we got setup, we got some food and had a beer while we waited for showtime. There was a captive audience as soon as we started and we made the most of the L shape of the room to create competition between the two sides of the room in how much noise they could make - very pantomime stylee.

John was introducing one song and was asking the audience if they were having a good time. Most people cheered but one guy replied that we were "better than the weather". LOL. High praise indeed!

I continued my "soggy" look that I'd started on Friday by going outside at halftime and getting soaked in the rain. Oh and I was jumping around like a nutter with a dozen Par56 lights on me... that'll do it too!

All in all, a very enjoyable first gig and hopefully not the last. Cheers Drew


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Saturday, June 06, 2009

Hot and Sweaty at the Stoke

Blimey, it was hot!

We setup at the far end of the pub this time rather than opposite the bar which gave us slightly less space but made a better area for the audience. There were lots of familiar faces from last time, and from other gigs that we do around Exeter... good to see Dom, Debi, Helen, Simon, Darren, Bev and Dave as well as the guy who danced like a nutter to the Clash last time ;-)

The most memorable part of the gig for me - notable rather than a highlight, I'd say - is when the band started playing Dammit and I stared at them blankly! I knew they'd keep going till I started singing but could I hell remember the first line of the song! Very embarrassing and the first time I've ever done that! So between every song after that, Paul started playing the opening riff of Dammit to torment me. Hmph! The words flew back into my head and we played it but grrr, how annoying!


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Friday, June 05, 2009

The Rock Gardens R.I.P.

I was saddened by a call this morning from Darren at the Rock Gardens. They've had noise complaints from one neighbour and as a result are having to close their doors on Sunday.

They're in a residential area and can hold around 500 people which gets noisy. However, they were granted a license to be a music venue in the first place, presumably with no neighbour complaints.

They are seeking an alternative venue at the moment, but my heart goes out to Darren and Terry. They've put a hell of a lot of work, time and money into making that a cracking venue and were getting gigs such as Enter Shikari which is both high profile and a major coup. It seems they're a victim of their own success.

Good luck finding a new place, guys!


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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Crazy Night in the Garden

John and I spent most of Sunday in a car travelling back from Leeds having had a weekend visiting Bethy Bosch. It was 25 degrees and we don't have air con! Deep joy!

We arrived back at home with time to shower, pack and grab a quick sarnie before the troops arrived to travel in convoy to Wellington.

We got to the Vintage in time to hear the last half an hour of The Tree Frogs' set which was great. Funky stuff! After they finished, we gave them a hand getting their stuff to their van and they helped us with ours. A very civilised state of affairs and good to meet them, they're nice guys ;-)

We started playing at about 9.15pm to a full beer garden which was very quickly a full, bouncing beer garden. Dancing stayed reasonably sedate for a few songs before I saw Nigel appear from nowhere and launch himself into a moshpit of sweaty blokes jumping up and down - I think that might've been White Riot by the Clash.

The beauty of the Vintage is that the carnage there is always very well behaved and friendly. Everyone looks out for each other and no-one gets hurt and nothing gets trashed. Perfect! We ended up with two different levels of the beer garden for different dancers: one level for the sweaty moshers and one level for the "nice dancing".

The band seemed tighter and more confident already. This probably sounds a bit soppy but, I'm very proud of them ;-)


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Monday, May 25, 2009

Update on Bully

As you may know, Bully got rushed into hospital on Wednesday night. The word is that he should hopefully be coming out on Tuesday or Wednesday next week. He was in the operating theatre for four hours so I'm guessing is going to be a bit sore and fragile for a while.


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Saturday, May 23, 2009

New Bass and Drums at the Longbrooke

We arrived at the Longbrooke in plenty of time to get setup and to have a quick runover any songs if it was needed. Which it wasn't! Hurrah for the new boys!

The guys did brilliantly well, having only had two rehearsals and about two weeks to learn almost two hours worth of songs ('ang on a minute... that's a lot of two's!). There were some loose ends but that was probably more evident to the band than the audience. Certainly the comments at half time were very positive.

About halfway through the first half, I regretted not giving Rob a mic as he and Hoover struck up a good banter. By the second half, he was miked up. If you're gonna insult the lead singer, do it publicly! That's what I say!

The highlight of the gig had to be Toxic! John hadn't found a suitable victim in the audience so decided to initiate Rob DeLonghi instead. Before John had had a chance to pucker up, Rob clamped himself onto John's face, apparently like a hoover on suck! That'll teach him ;-)

Thanks to both Rob and Madge for rising to the challenge with such a short timescale to work with! I'd also like to give Paul a mention because he's directed rehearsals brilliantly, helping both guys with stops and starts (oh and correcting the key when I've given people the wrong soundfiles! Oops!)

Onwards and upwards...


posted by Heather Morphy-Richards at 10:57 AM

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I forgot to mention the meerkats! They were bloody funny - and in danger of upstaging us! LOL

By Blogger Heather Morphy-Richards, at 2:27 PM, June 05, 2009  

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Friday, May 22, 2009

Introducing Rob DeLonghi

As all die-hard punksters will already know, the essence of a truly rude punk sound comes straight from the bass, and there's nobody ruder than Rob DeLonghi. But with that in mind, it's surprising to note that Rob is also a virtuoso on the tibetan prayer bells, a skill he nurtured in his early years as a novice at the Ringo Starr Khrishna Temple just outside Crediton.

In the end, he was forced to renounce the teachings of the great "Beatle", unable to submit to their strict regime of porridge and water. Today, he's back to his old punk self, living mainly on a diet of marmite sandwiches and beer.


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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men...

I had a phone call about an hour ago from Bully's missus, Corrine, to tell me that he'd just been admitted to RD&E with suspected Appendicitis and may not possibly be gig ready tomorrow!

aaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhh

On the plus side, we've been training up a new bassist, Rob DeLonghi. So, wearing his plastic pants, Rob will be gigging a bit sooner than originally intended ;-)


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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Welcome Paul "Madge" Magimix on the Drums

After a spell working the dance circuit from Liverpool to Ibiza, 'DJ Magimix' has once again swapped turntables for tom-toms to spread the punk word anew.

But, he's no stranger to the world of rock as Paul's been out there with some of the greatest bands in the world. In a long career, he's toured with the likes of The Specials, The Buzzcocks, The Damned, Greenday, and Blur, before deciding that driving busses was just long hours for low pay.

And as Paul says himself, 'once you've seen one naked groupie smeared with marmite, you've seen em all'


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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

New Lineup

We now have a complete lineup once again! Hurrah! Silly names and background stories to follow soon

Happy happy, joy joy!


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