Another busy early start to the weekend kicked off with a Solo gig on Thursday night at The Tavern in Blyth. I was already familiar with this place as LoGOz had played here in April for Tony Collision's 50th Birthday Bash! Tonight I was opening up for the ALMiGHTY UPRiSERS. It was a warm sticky evening as me and Clemmy rolled up to the venue to be greeted warmly by the evening’s promoter Mr Vince Race. A breezy soundcheck swiftly followed and everything was running like clockwork as an 8:45pm slot was the order of the day! After toying with a different opener I kept it cool and started with usual BALLAD OF THE DiSENCHANTED then straight into RiOT ON THE RADiO. I really enjoyed the intimacy of The Tavern as a solo artist, standing toe to toe with everyone, as people listened and joined in the acoustic shenanigans! Koast Radio DJ Nick Newcombe and Co particularly keeping the banter flowing! I closed the set with OLD PUNKS NEVER DiE complete this time with the crescendo featuring snippets from PRETTY VACANT / ONLY FOOLS & HORSES and climaxing with THAT'S LIVING ALRIGHT!!! The set went down great and a big thanks to everyone who came down. Much appreciated.
Next up it was the ALMiGHTY UPRiSERS with their upbeat skinhead Ska tunes and political vitriol delivered charismatically by frontman guitarist/vocalist Sparra! These boys look like they've come straight off the set of This is England! But they sure can play, even between onstage swigs of Navy Rum, the lads delivered a set as polished as their Ox blood Docs! I look forward to seeing them again, and there’s already talk of teaming up with LoGOz in the very near future so watch this space! Thanks again to all who came along, and big up again to Mr Race in what was his first night at The Tavern. Cheerz.
The next night saw not only the return of TFI Friday to our TV screens but also the return of LoGOz to Teeside, Middlesbrough. Tonight we were opening up for NEWTOWN NEUROTICS and touring support FLiES ON YOU at the Westgarth Club. Soundcheck as ever for us was a swift affair and we were happy with the cooperation from our youthful bearded sound guy! The place was filling up very healthily as we took to the stage just before 8pm. Launching straight into LONG TiME DEAD and quickly following up with UNEASY STREET the crowd was right on our side! Happy faces, familiar and strange all danced, bounced and sang along and it was all over too quickly as standard set closer MEXiCOLA was ringing around the place to an amazing response! Job done yet again! T-Shirts were sold, flyers were signed and pictures were taken as we mingled with the Middlesbrough massive. Next up were FLiES ON YOU with their quirky punk alternative anti pop tunes, including the fantastically titled 'Katie Hopkins in a Human form'. They delivered a more than entertaining set with amusing banter including tales of living next to Frank Bough! Then headliners NEWTOWN NEUROTICS took to the stage and gave the Middlesbrough hardcore just what they wanted! Frontman Steve Drewett was on top form performing their post punk rock classics including the 1981 political anthem 'Kick out the Tories'. Another fantastic night for LoGOz and everyone involved. Special mention to Promoter Steve Harland and Martin Mathers and all at Westgarth Club Middlesbrough for a cracking night! Also a big thank you to everyone who came down to support us, you know who you are :)
I can’t believe we're nearly halfway through my 52 tracks in 52 weeks Project! So here we are its AcoustiCalendar Song #24 KiDS T.V. This was just written on Sunday. I was idly messing about with a few chords trying to come up with something new, when the idea of old Kids TV Shows came into my head. That golden era of watching your favourite Shows, long before on demand TV, i-players and multi 24/7 childrens channels! So I quickly jotted down a few classic Kids programmes from my era! I suddenly realised this could run forever and ever so I had to put a lid on it somewhere! Already people who have heard it are asking "Where’s Inspector Gadget?" "Where’s the Flumps?" "Where’s Postman Pat?" Haha but as I've said I can’t mention them all, but there’s a fair few in there, see how many you can spot :) As always the song will be available to download FREE from www.logozworld.com/52 for 7 days until the next new track is uploaded :)
Phew that’s it for now! Thanks for reading :)
Cheerz
Peesh
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