End of a Era, The End of Kazooee

Sad news friends. After 3 years Kazooee has ceased. We would like to thank you for all your support during our time and hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did.

The split is fully amicable and we hope you join us in wishing each member the best in all future projects.

Heart felt thanks again.

Much love

JQ, Ben, Andy and Steve.

Quality Performance

Hey,

Having finally worked out the technology of dvd capture I have a little treat for you all. Below is a video of Kazooee playing Bad Vibes in London earlier in the year. It was filmed by the venue, with quality sound and lighting as standard. Enjoy it, we did!



xJQx

Halloween Voices Whispering.....

shh....don't tell anyone I was here....its supposed to be quiet time.

Yeah right, like its ever quiet being in this band. I thought I'd just pop on and say hi and that we are still beavering away behind the scenes. No gigs do not mean no action in the Kazooee camp and we are hatching plans for fun that I can hopefully tell you more about soon.

Something I can tell you about is that yet another new song is being put through its paces in rehearsals, the rather ominous "Don’t Look Back". It’s big and it’s loud and I'm looking forward to unleashing it on you all in 2010.

Until then watch this space....

Ringing out the (gigging) year at the Old Bell

Much to my own shame, I had never been to the Old Bell in Derby before. It’s a great venue, the stage is in what must have been a ball room at some point, giving it a striking and impressive set up and to its credit the attached pub also has character and atmosphere, I will be going there again.

We were informed that we were to headline the gig on our arrival so we duly negotiated our set up to a comfortable 45 minutes form the standard 30 of the support bands, letting us play all of our favourites and some of the new songs to boot.

The gig was fun it was good to have a both lighting and sound man and a good size stage to stomp around on. Given the size of the stage Andy impressively managed to hit me square in the forehead with a drum stick which ricocheted off me onto Steve’s head before disappearing into the audience. I think we have mentioned before that you can tell how good a gig is by the injuries sustained by band members and with that in mind it was a great gig, fitting for our last one of 2009.

Keep checking up on us in the coming months as although we will not be gigging there are plans a foot for videos, new songs, random fun and Kazooee related side projects. Expect a big push in 2010 and thanks for your support in 2009.

Much love

xJQx

Flourish at the Fleur De Lys

Nuneaton. Now be honest if you didn’t have Google maps handy could you tell me where it was? Didn’t think so. I was impressed to find it was not to far from Leicester and seemingly (only getting to see it from the car) is a decent midlands sort of town.

Exciting tit bits from the evening, do I here you ask?
Well I inadvertently flashed to a good number of locals by getting changed in Steve’s car. He has blacked out windows so usually I get away with it but I forgot that at night if you leave the internal light on to see what you’re doing, then the tinted windows count for naught. I got 2 waves and a honk before I realised. Hey ho, least I didn’t get arrested. As for on stage action, there was the usual windmillng from Ben, hard hitting from Andy but Steve got tired in the last song and having attempted a rather rock-stance, back to back with my good self, ended up flat on the stage, still playing, I was proud he didn’t miss a note. I don’t know if he was being cool or if it was just his age stopping him getting back up! Ha ha.

It was another big set from Kazooee tonight, a whole hour of us rocking out just about every song we have. The best thing about that is we get to play the new and not so new songs that are headed for the next album;

Fishnets & Eyeliner
Negative Attraction
Unaided
Assassin

It sucked to have to cancel the Leeds gig but when a pandemic strikes you don’t get to say no. With that said something productive did come out of the week Ben and I had swine flu in the form of another new song called You Have Me, don’t worry its not about being ill.

We have one more gig, in Derby on the 25th, before we take some well earn time off to sort out the plan of attack for next year. New album, a short tour in Europe and many many more UK gigs. I’m looking forward to it and hope to see you soon.

xJQx

Lots of fun at the Rising Sun

It was a first for us to have the stage all to ourselves. No support bands, just us, a pub full of people and an hour of our finest chosen songs. Due to a rather creative period in the band our catalog of song is always growing steadily so you never know when we will pounce a new song on the masses.

My guitar pedal, oddly enough attracted the most attention in the opening songs from a group of guys at the front, I was told that the sound produced was “emence”, what can I say, it does exactly what it says on the tin, it’s a grunge pedal. The set went down well, the venue catered for the more rock-metal crowd so the heavier songs were met with the best response, new song Assassin seems to be a winner, no matter who's in the crowd.

Its good to play to an enthusiastic crowd and Coventry were certainly that. I had SO many good conversations as I went round with the mailing list. There were lots of interesting people and stories heard but my favorite has to be our very own Motor Bike gang member. His club was called the Coffin Scratchers and he was so taken with Kazooee that he asked to swaped badges, I now own a a very very cool ‘Coffin Scratchers M.C.C’ badge. He also had an awesome beard, this makes me happy.

Thank to everyone who came and said hi.

xJQx

Hope Anchors to success

Kazooee rocked the Capital. We had our first gig in London on the 3rd and it was hell of a fun. The car was loaded with as much equipment and ‘Kazooee’ as it could possibly be and we road tripped to take on the bright lights.

It wasn’t just us on the invasion in London that night, we had company from Take That at Wembley and Blur in Hyde Park but still managed to fight off the big boys to gain a good crowd in such a nostalgic Venue. I was impressed at how tiny the stage was in the Hope and Anchor being as it has been graced with the likes of Madness and The specials, neither of which are short of band members for a 2 metre square bit of wood!

First on was Paraphernalia, a London based 3 piece. I was proud to witness both a female bass player/singer and female drummer rocking it for the women along with a very unlucky guitarist, who broke not 1 but 2 string during their short set. Paraphernalia’s sound was straight out of early punk and I liked them a lot. ‘Make tea not War’ should be in more people’s vocabulary.

We were next up and if you can judge a gig buy how much the band hurt themselves then we totally killed it with both Ben and Andy coming out with impressive injuries. The gig was filmed for a DVD by the venue and we will pop some up on youtube ASAP. Then you too can see and hear the fun that was had including me recounting the story of having to use the back seat of Steve’s car as a dressing room. No comment on car backseats. I’m warning you.

Ziodberg won the award for the most men on a stage for the evening. Everywhere you looked there was a guitar poking someone else in the side but they all crammed on and gave us a good show. Their music was indie but with a little classic rock thrown in for luck and they were a great bunch of lads. In fact they were so nice that they didn’t mind that their lovely photographer man developed somewhat of an interest in Kazooee and was seen snapping pics of us during the set. He was rewarded with a badge and some JQ attention; we felt it was well deserved.

To mark the first Kazooee attack on London we made a tour video. Granted it wasn’t a tour, it was one gig but if you imagine that the video is just repeated 20 times just with different venues and service stations then it'd be pretty bang on.
Here's 11 minutes of the private Kazooee world. Warning, there is explicit language and you might realise how cool we really are.