Wednesday 31 December 2014

LoGOz - The Ups & Downs & all in between - The Rollercoaster year that was 2014 !!!

Our New Year hangovers had barely lifted as we got 2014 underway with one of our biggest gigs of our brief career so far, on Friday January 17th at The Cluny2 in Newcastle supporting DUNCAN REID AND THE BIG HEADS. This show was a sell out and a big thanks to Keith Newman and Radio Northumberland for arranging this brilliant night. A great start to the year was quickly followed with some local gigs at Bubbles Ashington and Bar 38 Newcastle, and then our first Live gig in Sheffield at The South Sea Venue in February. Spreading our black punk rock wings and getting some mileage on the clock was standing us in good stead, as well as getting us as tight as a camels arse in a sandstorm!
March then saw us playing at Think Tank? in Newcastle supporting SUPERCHARGER and EUREKA MACHINES. The Machines were on a successful UK Tour as main man Chris Catalyst showcased his band/talents whilst taking a break from Guitar playing duties with Ginger Wildheart. Another cracking night and big thanks to John Davies from Supercharger for this :) This month was also our first gig in Leeds, rocking out the Packhorse venue with our good friends STILETTO FARM & STONE COLD KILL. Closing a busy March we played 2 gigs in one day on the 22nd, starting with our hometown Punk all day Festival at Woodhorn Lane in Ashington, followed by an evening show with SPITFIRE BULLETS, at The Dog & Parrot in Newcastle.
April got off to a flying start with some cracking Radio promotion slots. We were interviewed and performed Live on air on Radio Northumberland, Koast Radio and Lionheart FM. As well as keeping LoGOz gig bandwagon rolling in and around the North East we ended the month with our first ever gig in Edinburgh playing the popular Bannermans venue with DUNT.
With the climate changing and Spring in the air we headed up to the world famous Barrels Ale House in Berwick for the first time in May. This also gave us some great local press and a brilliant debut gig! Back to the other side of the border to rock The Quay in Blyth before showing our charitable side with a fundraising gig at The Sea Horse in Whitley Bay on the 24th. The next day saw Paul and me at Bents Park in South Shields for our first ever Acoustic gig, thanks to Tony Guerilla Promotions. This kinda turned a corner and opened up a new angle for LoGOz. We had a blast and got the initially bemused crowd right on our side. A great afternoon ending in autograph signing, photos and great banter and free food! We finished the month with a great gig on Saturday 31st at Newcastle University Students Union with alternative rockers DIGITS.
With World Cup Fever gripping the Country we kicked off June with a great gig at The Doll @ The Black Bull in Gateshead. Following on from our successful Bents Park unplugged set we played 2 acoustic sets on the weekend of 14/15th, first on  Saturday we played at The Mighty Dub Fest at Druridge Bay Country Park in Hadston, then on Sunday at Whitley Bay food festival. The latter proving the location for the No Win Situation acoustic video bootleg doing the rounds on Youtube, featuring a rather refreshed lady all singing and a dancing with us, check it out :) The following week we crashed into South Shields at the Cross Arms Hotel as England crashed out of the World Cup! Despite the inevitable Football disappointment we were still on a sonic high and ended the night with a chance meeting and great band crack with 3 Colours Red/Gary Numan guitarist Chris McCormack. A few days later we were rocking the Hoppings at Town Moor in Newcastle before playing a second gig later that night on a fundraiser at The Northumberland Arms. We climaxed our busy June with a hometown gig in Ashington on Sunday the 28th on Station Road Fayre Day.
July got underway with another acoustic slot, this time at The Roxbury in Blyth on the 5th then the next night we were back on home turf at Bubbles Ashington supporting Irish Punk veterans HOOLIGAN promoted by Radio Northumberland’s Mr. Newman and again a cracking night indeed! We continued the month in amongst summer holidays and hot humid nights to keep rolling with an electric gig at The Roxbury and a return to the Black Bull, this time supporting British Punk stalwarts ABRASIVE WHEELS.
We kicked off August with the new Premier League Football season with a double set gig at The Flying Horse in Blyth. This was kinda new territory stamping on the toes of traditional cover bands, as we delivered 2 original sets and plenty of encores, and the place was bouncing! We continued this new tradition throughout the month by returning to the Barrels in Berwick and a brilliant night at The Bebside Inn in Blyth for more double set blasts!
September began with an exclusive private party gig at The Conchie in Ashington on the 7th. We then strutted our stuff for the first time at The Lord Clyde in Byker before finishing the month back at the Doll supporting THE ROUGHNECK RIOT on their successful UK Tour promoting their brand new Album.
As my favourite time of the year, the Autumn, was kicking in things were just starting to get a bit more interesting! Due to unforeseen circumstances on the 3rd at The Clef & Cask gig in Cramlington with ALL OUT ATTACK, we had to perform as a 2 piece, with Paul unfortunately out of action. So with no rehearsal or time to adjust, Carl and l bit the bullet and performed as a duo with my Jack White to his bearded Meg :) Against the odds we pulled it off with a blistering set - even if we do say so ourselves!
Paul returned to action the following week as we supported THE DOLLYROTS from U.S.A on their headline date at The Three Tuns Gateshead, on a break from their UK Tour with THE BUZZCOCKS. Another amazing night and thanks to Phil Insangel. A few days later we were again hit with Paul having to sit our next gig out on the sidelines, this being a charity fundraiser at The Elephant in Ashington with GUARDIAN ahead of their European Tour. Carlos and me had now found our stride as a 2 piece and rechristened ourselves LoGO2 and we rose to the challenge yet again with aplomb :) As October drew to a close we headed to  The Riverside in Selby on the 25th, third on the Bill on an all day Punk Festival headlined by SHAM 69. This was again a fantastic night and performance by the band. This lead to us being approached by Sham 69 Tour Manager to asking us to open up the following weekend for COCKNEY REJECTS on their opening night of their 35th Anniversary Tour in Gateshead! Yes please :) So the Halloween weekend proved to be a scary monster busy one with us playing 4 gigs in 24 hours! We kicked off 7:30pm on Saturday November 1st at The Teams Club Gateshead supporting The Rejects then blasted over to The Roxbury in Blyth to play with local Punk heroes COLLISION. Then on Sunday at 3pm we opened up a charity gig at North Shields Rugby Club before heading over to The Golden Lion in Jarrow for a randomly brilliant bizarre unplugged session!! A great weekend, and it didn’t end there, as on the Monday night Clemmy (LoGOz Manager) and me were interviewed Live on Radio Northumberland on the New Wave with Newman Show! Phew :) November 15th we hit The Music Shack in South Shields for the first time and a great gig with local sleazemiesters WILDTHORN amongst others! The following week we smashed it up at the Masons Arms in Blyth with another double setter, which was interspersed with a mini acoustic set by Paul and me, which went down a storm. We rounded the month of with a brilliant night back at The Doll supporting THE FUZZBRATS from Holland in their mini Tour of England promoting their spankin' new Album!
With the advent calendars 6 doors open we returned to our old haunt The Conchie in Ashington for a fun festive bash with METAL GODS. The following Friday we shot back up to Alnwick on Chaz Ellis' Schools Out Show on Lionheart FM for our first full band plugged in Live Radio Session. We were really tearing up the rule book on this one, with the fantastically strangest set up we've ever played! But yet again it all came together and we had a blast, and finished the Show with our punked up version of Happy Xmas (War is Over). With our bellies full and heads pounding, and the smell of new aftershave, perfume and turkey farts in the air we headed back to The Roxbury in Blyth for our Boxing Day Bonanza! This was indeed a Christmas cracking gig with a great animated and very vocal crowd! We even invited Tony from Collision to sing guest vocals on our cover of Pretty Vacant! Another brilliant double set gig for LoGOz as we tore the place another arsehole with more new friends and fans made and a great end to 2014. There was still time on Sunday 28th to lend a helping band at Pegswood Club as we ripped it up one more time! 
To top it off 'Mexicola' was voted at Number 3 in Radio Northumberland’s Top 79 Punk Festive countdown, as voted for by the listeners. Thanks for putting us up in the realms of The Sex Pistols and Ramones :) 
So all in all it’s been a fantastically interesting year and we have gone from strength to strength, albeit in small steps, cos building this machine takes time :) We have gained many new followers along the road of 2014, yet also seem to have lost one or two along the way too! Your loss people. This is a great journey to be on and it’s only gonna get better and busier. Massive thanks to everyone who has supported and helped us this year, including all the bands, promoters, Radio Stations etc we appreciate it hugely! Special mention to our Manager Clemmy Scotswood and Mizzii Bee for the tireless behind the scenes work. Hope you have all had a great Christmas! Please keep on this Punk Rockin' Rollercoaster.... and dont catch Ebola...Please enjoy...Mexicola :)
Happy New Year
All the Best for 2015
Cheerz
Peesh



Wednesday 17 December 2014

LoGOz - HAPPY XMAS (War is Over) 17/12/14

HAPPY XMAS everyone, war is over, if you want it :) And so is LoGOz spankin punked up festive cover of the John Lennon classic. Just go to our website www.logozworld.com and click on the link on our news page.  So enjoy your yuletide gift release NOW from the Band as we empty our little sack online for all you lovely people :) Tis the season to be jolly lads and lasses so feel free to share this good tiding, with you and your kin :)
All the Best
Peesh





















Saturday 13 December 2014

LoGOz - Live Lionheart FM Radio Session 12/12/14

Friday night saw us heading back to Alnwick in the familiar shape of Lionheart Radio studios for a return to Mr Chaz Ellis' Schools Out Show. We last appeared on his show in September where we played a few LoGOz acoustic tracks. But this time we were entering new territory with a full Live band session...can we pull it off? Strictly speaking the studio is not designed for full Live band performances, so we were well up for the sonic challenging experience! Carlos had his drums set up just outside the Live control room as Paul and myself had our Guitar stacks side by side next door. So this really was quite tricky to get a good sound balance as Carlos literally could only hear himself, and I only had my natural voice as a vocal guide. But hey this is punk rock boys and girls, even if the rest of the show was quite the opposite. I'm sure some of the regular listeners were choking on their horlicks as we tore into NO WIN SITUATION, MEXICOLA and an embryonic HAPPY XMAS (War is Over) and we had no idea how it sounded on the airwaves! But from where we were standing it sounded great!!!

We had a few brief interview chats with Chaz as we chewed the fat over our re-release and repacking of PSYCHO RADIO in 2015, our recent support slots with The DOLLYROTS, SHAM 69 and The COCKNEY REJECTS, as well as Royal Mail and Christmas dinners! All in all a great experience and something we look forward to doing again very soon. Thanks again to Chaz Ellis and everyone at Lionheart.

Cheerz
Peesh

Tuesday 9 December 2014

LoGOz - The Conchie Gig Ashington Review 6/12/14

Always good to go back to old stomping grounds, so in this case, The Conchie in Ashington. This was the scene of LoGOz second ever gig way back in August 2012. We were sharing the stage with Mark Evans latest Judas Priest tribute METAL GODS for a one off local Festive bash! We rolled up to the venue at 7:15 pm in plenty of time to get soundchecked nice and loud, then to mingle with the incoming crowd of friends and family etc. Good to see some of my ex Blisters bandmates Neil & Dunny there too with their good ladies, showing their support. Also, LoGOz first ever drummer Harry who was singing along and playing air drums at every opportunity! Good lad :)
We hit the stage just after 9pm with a tongue in cheeky sneaky Happy Christmas intro, then we blasted into LONG TIME DEAD and kept the pace up with another tight performance in front of our home crowd. Great to play to my Son Kieran who was given special permission to attend and he loved it! Nodding along to every beat complete with his Ramones tee shirt and Sex Pistols badge he looked every part the budding Dee Dee he aspires to be – haha, thats my boy! I had to be on my best behaviour of course although a few slips of the tongue led to a bit of trouble with my Ps & Qs, never mind my Fs & Cs ;) We even threw in PRETTY VACANT for good measure before finishing off with MEXICOLA and left the stage to the cries of ''MORE'' ringing in our ears :)
It was METAL GODS turn next as wor Mark got to live the dream of being Priest frontman for the night as they delivered a solid rockin' set climaxing with metal classics YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER THING COMING and LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT. Another successful night for everyone yet again and huge thanks again to Mr Evans & co and of course everyone who came down to make a noise with us :)
Just to remind you all with Christmas around the corner, if you're searching for a few stocking fillers, then look no further than www.gofundme.com/logoz with plenty of snazzy original festive gifts available for everyone and their Granny! Or even treat yourselves :) You can also buy all our merchandise from our spankin' new website www.logozworld.com Check it out!!!
Cheerz
Peesh
 

Friday 5 December 2014

LoGOz - Ashington Gig with Metal Gods this Saturday & The LURKERS Support 2015

Just a reminder, local lads and lasses, that this Saturday we will be rocking our hometown Ashington at our old stomping ground The Conchie. Thanks to Mark Evans we will be sharing the stage with Metal Gods, so any Judas Priest aficionados will be in for a Festive treat and jingle bell bent for leather!!! This is a FREE Event and kicks off at 8:30PM so get down early and get in the Christmas spirit. 'Tis the season to be jolly and all that baubles, so lets make it a cracker! So while l've now exhausted a few shite Xmas quips, lets just hope to see lots of ya at The Conchie tomorrow night :)

Also a cool piece of News just come in. We're pleased to announce we will be supporting UK Punk veterans THE LURKERS at The Doll in Gateshead on Sunday February 8th 2015. As a fan of the band and seeing them a few times over the years, including a memorable gig at The Newcastle Arena supporting The DAMNED, this is gonna be a great gig for LoGOz. More details on that when we have them so stay tooned :)

No Sleep til Xmas
Cheerz
Peesh



Tuesday 2 December 2014

LoGOz - The Doll @ The Black Bull + The Fuzzbrats 28/11/14

Its always great to be back playing at The Doll @The Black Bull in Gateshead, as its one of our favourite venues to play. You know you’re gonna get a great sound in there (thanks to Shev) and a very receptive crowd! Friday night did not disappoint! Arriving at the venue just before 8pm it still gave us plenty of time to get a meaty soundcheck nailed, as our Dutch buddies The Fuzzbrats had nipped into Town to sample the delights of the local takeaway selection!
 
With our set time being 9:15pm the night was gathering momentum as well as gathering eager bodies into the vibrant room that is The Doll. So we kicked off bang on time straight into familiar territory with LONG TIME DEAD setting the pace for a frantically organised slick 12 song setter climaxing with Live favourite MEXICOLA. A great reaction from a buzzing crowd and with the merchandise selling well, we were more than happy as we waited for The Fuzzbrats.
Being no stranger to Dutch websites, l had only seen the band online so was looking forward to checking them out Live and I enjoyed their quirky punk keyboard driven set. Although their lead singer claimed he couldn’t understand LoGOz vocalist in between songs as "..he talk too fast.." haha! By then we had already cemented our Anglo-Dutch relations, although main man and Bass player Pete is originally from Essex, and a top geezer! After the gig we exchanged stories, beers, photos and banter! So we're already looking forward to hooking up with the Fuzzbrats again in the near future, maybe even playing in their beautiful country? Who knows :)
Once again another successful gig for LoGOz, and it really was a cracking turn out considering there was a few big gigs in the area that same night, in the shape of UK Subs at Think Tank? and Hugh Cornwell at The Sage in Gateshead...not forgetting erm..... Erasure at The Academy!!! On that note I give a little respect, l'll rephrase that, I'll give a lot of respect to everyone who came along and gave their support for the band yet again! You all know who you are :)
 
Cheerz
Peesh
 
Myself and Mr Pete Fuzzbrat