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FOXIE'S BLEEDING BAND NEWS NEWS: Latest Rant 1) Well that was the summer then. We’ve played our last German Festie of the year in Mulheim at Burgfolk and jolly good it was too. A rather eclectic mix of medieval, metal, folk and errr…..us. The people were lovely, the bands good and it added to our barnstormin’ set at Shamrock a couple of weekends before, so Burgfolk was a fitting end to our German ventures for 2010. Yup, unlike previous years where we have done Halloween in Germany, this year we are taking a gig-break to prepare for the long awaited album. Time out to write, review then record……….. all being well. That’s not to say we have no gigs, check the gig page ‘heartsattack’ as we have a few, including ‘Alchemy Festival’ in mid September and we even go back to Ipswich for the first time in yonks. 2) At last it looks like the Con-dem love-in is starting to fracture and I think come the end of October when the full effect of 1,000,000 million job losses in the public sector and 40% cuts hits home then the shit will well and truly hit the fan. Anyone who thinks this will not lead to double dip recession, a further 20% drop in house prices and have a major and negative impact on the private sector is kidding themselves. There will be those idiots from the likes of the ‘Taxpayers Alliance’ (where this bunch of twats comes from I have no idea, but if you are to the right of Adolf fukin Hitler they’ll probably let you in, maybe it’s the armed wing of the Tory party or something) rubbing their hands with glee thinking that this is long overdue and we’ll all get better value for money. Wrong, what you will get is no council services when you need them, no health services when you need them, schools in disrepair with staff failing to cope, benefit cuts and rising crime that the cuts in justice spending will mean less offenders caught and those that are caught not dealt with properly. Oh yea and Banks in profit laffing at the fact they ain’t paid back a penny to us. 80’s Deja-vous. And Tony Blair is and always will be a Thatcher clone self-righteous Bush loving twat (my fave word at the moment) by the way. Labour will no doubt elect his successor clone and wonder why their vote is still slipping away. For my part I am now officially Green, a proper socialist party with a true radical agenda of green economics, sensible views on crime and disorder, opposition to capitalist wars and with worker friendly policies. We need a change to the voting system to ensure the 2 party system dies for ever along with the Lib-Dems who have proven power is more important than any values or beliefs held if you are the single entity responsible for the balance of power. We need to ensure our vote is truly represented in that tinshack of hypocritical shite they call Parliament. Rant over. Feel free to comment. I may reply I may not, but I’ll still love you all whatever. 3) Those of you who are missing our earlier albums will be pleased to hear they are now on Spotify, as well as being available to download from iTunes, Amazon MP3, Play, 7digital, and many other fine vendors of digital music. 4) The forum blogspot is still going strong with mini inside views of life on the road, we hope you have read them and enjoyed them. I’ll keep them going and let you know how the album progresses too. 5) We hope to see some of you, all of you, new friends, old friends, lost friends at a gig soon, so don’t be strangers. Foxie xx
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CHEESY BIOGS Foxie Working class poet and proud, son of a car worker from Birmingham who grew up in a struggling family who's dad spent more time on the dole or striking for his principles. This obviously left a great impression upon him so that he has the the biggest gob in the band and is the ringleader of all things angst. A man of protest since his schooldays, rejecting Uni to go on picket lines in industrial disputes from Liverpool to London and thereafter be an active supporter in all things left-wing but pro-environmental. Scoffing at New Labour as a Tory Government in drag and passionate enemy of all things global and corporate. Formed the band after playing too many gigs as a solo performer in folk clubs but with the attitude of a punk which at the time scared the shit out of the tankard brigade. Recorded a brilliant solo album but did not release it because "the world is not really ready yet for such visionary work; maybe when I'm dead" Not really a folkie, more of a punk but with a love of the fucked up countryfolkrockcrossrhythms that gets 'em dancing, Yes, maybe a visionary of sorts, but always out of step with current political and musical thinking and he just happens to be a great songwriter who doesn't care what the music establishment thinks. Yep, definitely a one off and some might say thank Christ for that. Gel Gel is the band's practical joker. He loves talking about anything. He loves spiritual stuff and is about as close to a hippie as any punkfolker could be. This is not a contradiction in terms it is just the complexity that is Gel. On continental tours he has been known to take an extra steering wheel and sit on the (continental) drivers side of the van, gain a drivers attention at high speed and then pull of the wheel - just to see how well the other driver can slalom. (kids please don't do this it is dangerous and you might get arrested) Gel does not have much luck in his lovelife; he got dumped by a supermodel (it's true! every reader of those mags will have seen her pix) because he preferred to take his dog for a walk on the Malvern Hills instead of taking her out once. Of course, being a bloke, he now regrets this course of action but he's too proud to admit it. To help him get over this setback he has been known to don a dress on stage just to show off his supermodel figure to prove that he is just as good as her! This may be another reason why girls run away as their mom's don't like this sort of thing. Gel has an impressive musical C.V. having played with a couple of Brum based cult bands (Ark, Press Darlings) in his past but his real passion is that punkyfolky thing so he is proud to be here. Gaz It could be said of Gaz that he has spent some time seeking perfection. An amazing player of technical skill with a power that makes Sizewell B seem a mere triviality. This we know is not true but if Gaz were plugged into the National Grid whilst playing drums his energy levels could make all those Nuclear Reactors redundant. And good riddance too. Gaz is something of an artist - all that artwork in the band is his doing, quite a creative and he can do it with metal too being something of a not so jolly welder - just look at his kit baby. He first started playing guitar but this was so harmful to his fingers that he turned it over and just hit it; then demanded his parents get him a drum kit and he has not looked back since. Gaz brings experience and stability to the band, he has toured the U.S.A. and Europe as a session drummer before joining Bleeding Hearts and understands perfectly the rigours of life on the road where others would fail before him. More into Skyclad than Fairport Convention he manages to sing and play drums at the same time. A great feat indeed. He may come from Cheltenham?! Why?! He may have rejected gigs with The Albion Band and wished he was Filthy in Motorhead but he knows what he wants. A great singer in his own right but happy in the knowledge that he plays drums in the best punk-folk-rock band in the world. His is pure bliss.
