Solo / LoGOz updates

After what's looking like a quiet January on the live gigging front there's still plenty going on in LoGOz world! After a successful post new year uplifting gig at the Tavern in Blyth on January 3rd the band hit the rehearsal room the following week to work on new songs. This resulted in the spanking track 'VOiCE OF A DEGENERATiON'. I wrote this towards the end of last year and which will hopefully be making its Live début at an upcoming gig in the very near future. 

Early January 2016 has been quite a busy time personally for writing and recording new demos for LoGOZ. Tracks that have been buzzing like angry wasps in my head have now been laid down and passed onto Paul and Carl to get their collective nashers into. With titles such as 'HUMAN CONDiTiON' and 'END OF AN ERA' these songs are just waiting to be unleashed! Its like chewing bubblegum with razorblades! Ouch!

I've also been rehearsing pretty hard with my AcoustiCalendar bunch of songs. All 52 of them in fact. The point being I always wanted to play every single one of these songs Live at some stage very soon. Im pleased to say this next personal challenge is going very well. I've also added some swanky new equipment to my solo attire. The first being a Marshall AS50DR Acoustic soloist amplifier in Oxblood red. Very easy on the eye and even more so on the ear.

Also lets not forget my new vintage 50s style chrome microphone too which I've been meaning to get my mits on for yonks now! After blasting the arse out of them both last week at Pulse studios in Blyth I'm pleased to say they're sounding cracking and can't wait to debut them at a solo gig near you soon! Watch this space! I must say though the acoustic amp didn't come delivered without incident! Oh no. On arrival as I took it out of the perfectly undamaged packaging I noticed one of the casters on the bottom was totally shattered meaning the amp was unsteady and rocking like a bastard, and not in a good way! 

So after a good few days of emails and phone calls via Clemmy, Mizzi Bee and myself and a well known online retailer, my damaged item has to be returned! But I had to wait to be refunded and re order as opposed to a straight swap/redelivery! I'm sorry to say their customer service was nothing short of shite! So after receiving my new gear eventually it's been well worth the hassle in the end!

Big thanks to all at the Guitar, Amp and Keyboard Centre. 

Also just to let you know on Thursday January 28th I will be Live on American Punk Rock Radio Station www.whatever68radio.com chatting with Lisa PunkrPrincess about all things LoGOz and more!! Catch this show online at 8pm UK time!

Here's a few solo dates for your diaries lads and lasses. Both at the good old Tavern in Blyth. I'll be playing there on Sunday February 21st at 6pm with The Voluntears. This is FREE Entry so come and end your weekend in style, maybe chuck a holiday in for the Monday or hoy a sickie haha! Also I'm pleased to say after a successful Xmas show together I'll again be supporting the chaptastic Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer on his UK Tour on September 2nd 2016.

That's all for now folks. Plenty of new gig announcements and new release dates coming soon! Stay tuned!

Thanks for reading.

All the Best

Peesh X

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Happy New Year - 2016 Lets Go!!!

First of all a belated Happy New Year to one and all. I hope you all had a cracking festive season and are ready to take 2016 by the horns and ride it like a bastard! I know I am!!!

I was sad (as millions were) to hear of the death of Motörhead main man Lemmy over the Xmas period. As a huge fan I was hoping to catch the band one last time on their scheduled January UK Tour, but it wasn't to be. I was lucky to see the band 4 times over the years, at the Newcastle Mayfair 1998, City Hall 2003, 02 Academy 2007 and Download 2010. Every time, the band delivered a high energy no nonsense bad ass dirty rock n roll set of class tunes! Lemmy was/is a true Rock star warrior who lived life loud the way he wanted and took shit from no one.  He will be sorely missed. 

Also just heard the sad news today that David Bowie has passed away losing his 18 month battle with cancer. Another icon and innovator of music and style spanning 6 decades! Surely almost everyone involved in music can't help being influenced by David Bowie? Again like Lemmy he was creative right til the end, only releasing his new album last week! Rest in Peace. They will never be forgotten.

Although it often seems a quiet time at the start of a new

year, LoGOz wasted no time in getting back to live action with a gig at The Tavern in Blyth on Sunday January 3rd. We were supported by young fresh faced indie rock starts Primal Colours. Their half hour set with mainly originals and highlighted with a decent cover of Talking Heads classic 'Psycho Killer'. Good luck to the lads for the future. It was great to ease back into the Live scene after we hadn't played together since early December at Riverside Rebellion Festival. But any fears were quickly brushed aside as we delivered a post Christmas cracker of a set, with not a turkey in sight! The band were as tight as our festive waistbands and blessed with a brilliantly loyal bustling crowd still in New Year Party mode! A great start to 2016. Thanks to all who came down and to Vince for putting us on again. 

Behind the scenes is where it's all happening at the minute. As Clemmy, Mizzi Bee and myself are in the final stages of putting together the finishing touches to the repackaged PSYCHO RADIO album. Trust me it'll be well worth the wait! We're also working on remixing early demos for some extra unheard unreleased ultra rarities to come your way too! So watch this space!!! Im also pleased to say that the second AcoustiCalendar CD 13.2 is ready to be released at the start of February. More news on this as it happens :)

I have begun working on drum tracks for the 52 songs too. This is a really cool process which will help decide what songs could work as a full new band project. Maybe they all will haha! I'm also planning picking the best, favourite or most relevant 13 songs from AcoustiCalendar 52 and giving them the full band treatment for commercial release later this year! So if there's any of those songs which you would like to hear given a full electric makeover then please do let me know? Speaking of which you may remember towards the end of last year I recorded full band versions of 'Keep ya Timber in & ya Powder Dry' and 'Death of the 7 inch Single' up at Mill Studios in Alnwick? Well we will be restarting work on the video for 'Timber' this month and the plan is to release this as a solo double A-Side Single in the first half of 2016.

And if that's not enough, I've already stated writing new LoGOz songs and recording new band demos! Clemmy is also already working hard filling up the diary so expect new gig announcements very soon too! 

I think that's all for now folks!

Stay clean and live the dream!

Live it up in 2016

Cheerz

Peesh X