The Fabulous Fezheads

Following last night we now have a cunning plan for Rochecter Dickens Festival this weekend. Saturday is: the ‘Strictly come Skipping’ street theatre tour. Meet at the Man of Kent, Rochester - 1.30pm for 2pm kick off. We have no Gobby, or Snake on Saturday, so we won’t be taking amps along, just a Mandolin plus our mate Foghorn, and we’ll work our way around some of the back street pubs. Curry is booked for 6pm at a nearby venue known only to Jim. All welcome but Fezheads will only be picking up the tab for full time members. Sunday: We are booked at the Rochester Corn Exchange 2pm - 3.30pm. Meet at 12noon, Sound check 1pm – set list to follow. Somebody called Bob doing the PA who claims he’s worked with us before Cheers Afkatglhoops

The MacMillan Trust charity night went well enough at the Alexandra Hotel on Thursday. Adonis Kebab had his legs waxed, and we had a couple of Belly Dancers, Arabian Jewel, performing between sets. It was the first outing for our new Mackie mixing desk, so getting to grips with the sound was a challenge. As the bands have to set up at the end of a horseshoe shaped bar, we’ve tried various things in the past to get a good mix. We’ve played extra loud, played quiet (a struggle), and on Thursday I tried the ‘many speakers’ around the bar trick, which seemed to do the job. I also played a new bass guitar on Thursday. ‘Candy’- an ebay rescue from some Care-in-the-Community knob who should never be allowed to own a guitar again. She’s a Candy Apple Red Hondo 830 Delux from the early 1980’s, and she looks like she was built from left over parts from a Red 2.8 Capri Ghia. I’ve had her for about 18 months now, and with just the addition of a new nut, machineheads, pots, knobs, strip down, deep clean and extensive set up, she’s scrubbed up a treat. Sounds great, the only down side being that she weighs 4 stone, but as long as I take a couple of Ibuprofen before and after a gig we’re sorted! Following the Alex gig I went down to Cardiff at the weekend, visited the famous Cranes music store, followed by Wales v Australia at the Millennium stadium and a night on the lash. But that’s another story….. Afkatglhoops.

Mixed fortunes again this week: Firstly tragedy struck in the form of having to turn down a Beer Festival! Yes, going against all our we hold sacred, the Fabulous Fezheads had to turn down Chelmsford Summer Beer Festival 2009 because it’s the same weekend ( July 11th ) as Guilfest 2009 – really hope they appreciate this in Guilford! However, we had a better night at Viv’s Sound Art studio last night. We recorded ‘Himshee – Dance of the Bewildered’ a classic reggae track that’s shaping up to be one Stonkin Hot Groove….. And ‘Space Cadet’, a slide guitar classic which is progressing in an Adonis sort of way. The cunning plan is that we’re going to put them together with ‘She’s Mine’ and ‘Solstice Park’, which we recorded earlier this year, and re-mix them into an EP, ready for Fig and Date 2009. Anyway must dash, as I need to strangle a goat for the cous cous. Afkatglhoops

Not the greatest of nights last night. We found out that Gobby’s had a suspected heart attack yesterday and is currently in Maidstone Hospital. I spoke to him last night and told him that it’s getting ridiculous the lengths to which he’s now going to in order to miss practice. We wish him well. Also the ‘Old Green Eyed Monster’ raised his ugly heard at practice last night in a row over money. I don’t what to comment on this except to say that personally I’m only in the Fezheads for fun. Believe me, if I was in it for the money, then I wouldn’t be performing with the Fezheads. Afkatglhoops