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.