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