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FOXIE'S BLEEDING BAND NEWS Latest Stuff NEWS: Latest Stuff 1) The summer is now upon us, we have done our first few festivals here and across the wasser, got those miles under our belt and been trying out some new stuff bit by bit. All in all, quite satisfying and I promise not to mention the world cup or the election results for the sake of getting all worked up again about what the f**k is going on. Oh dear, can’t resist……………Cuts cuts cuts and Con-dem is about right….where are we headed eh, I feel like the 80’s are upon us again and it was shit the first time round believe me, why do you think I am like I am eh?………. and as for JT and Capello, f**kin embarrassing! Spending a lot of time in Germany is hard with them gloating and laffing at us…… and us having to endure the fact that we have a team full of overpaid, overhyped, underperforming prima-donna premier league egotistical misfits when 1,000’s of workers are being thrown on the dole and ordinary working families are suffering in this capitalist created meltdown. Hell, even the grads can’t get jobs at Mc’Shits. Here’s a thought for you……what if it’s all just a ruse to keep the worlds’ workers in our place – war and recession = ring a bell? Check your history folks. And be prepared for more anti-union laws as the rich fill their boots at our expense. Still, we’re all in this together ain’t we, yea us and all the millionaires in the Govt. I’ll be looking forward to the riots next summer. 2) We hope you enjoyed the brand new video on our 'Pix 'n' Mix' page taken at 'Folk Im Schlosshof' Germany 2009? Let us know what you think. We all think it rocks and it's 2 of our newer songs too! 3) Those of you who are missing our earlier albums will be pleased to hear they are now on Spotify, as well as being available to download from iTunes, Amazon MP3, Play, 7digital, and many other fine vendors of digital music. 4) The gig list is as up to date as it can be and we hope none of us catch any exotic diseases while on tour like last year with swine flu where we had to cancel one or two shows – something we have never done before and hope we don’t have to do again. The sight of Gel moaning and groaning and the agony he endured just trying to step up on stage at Katie Fitzgeralds last year was something else. Of course, we pissed our pants laughing about it and it wasn’t at all fair on him but how could we resist - we are blokes, we are in a band and the years have taken their toll on our sense of humour. Shit, I even find it funny now thinking about the Serb soldier in Bosnia who stuck an AK47 in my face. 5) You may have noticed that the forum is not really a forum anymore but a blog of what highs and lows and other stuff happens on tour. Go check it out, there’s even some sorry looking pics of us at our morning best (irony) after a late night or 3. Yuk! 6) We hope to see some of you, all of you, new friends, old friends, lost friends at a gig soon, so don’t be strangers, we are playing plenty of UK and German dates in various locations and it would be nice to catch up. Bring on the summer, sunburn, beer bellies, baggy shorts and alcohol haze…….it’s gonna be a good ‘un! Until it rains at least.
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IN (Gel's) SHORTS (I only wear 'em at gigs you know!) Webmaster comment: Gel really needs to update this bit! He knows it, we know it! Please email him with suggestions gel@bleedinghearts.co.uk Free Joke Service Exceeded maximum bandwidth, inactive account or temporarily suspended. Me Gear Innit' It's an Ampeg! The Trace is dead, long live the Ampeg! intentional space for atmospheric setting.................. Peace, luv & trains; Gel (-; xx
CHEESY BIOGS Foxie Working class poet and proud, son of a car worker from Birmingham who grew up in a struggling family who's dad spent more time on the dole or striking for his principles. This obviously left a great impression upon him so that he has the the biggest gob in the band and is the ringleader of all things angst. A man of protest since his schooldays, rejecting Uni to go on picket lines in industrial disputes from Liverpool to London and thereafter be an active supporter in all things left-wing but pro-environmental. Scoffing at New Labour as a Tory Government in drag and passionate enemy of all things global and corporate. Formed the band after playing too many gigs as a solo performer in folk clubs but with the attitude of a punk which at the time scared the shit out of the tankard brigade. Recorded a brilliant solo album but did not release it because "the world is not really ready yet for such visionary work; maybe when I'm dead" Not really a folkie, more of a punk but with a love of the fucked up countryfolkrockcrossrhythms that gets 'em dancing, Yes, maybe a visionary of sorts, but always out of step with current political and musical thinking and he just happens to be a great songwriter who doesn't care what the music establishment thinks. Yep, definitely a one off and some might say thank Christ for that. Gel Gel is the band's practical joker. He loves talking about anything. He loves spiritual stuff and is about as close to a hippie as any punkfolker could be. This is not a contradiction in terms it is just the complexity that is Gel. On continental tours he has been known to take an extra steering wheel and sit on the (continental) drivers side of the van, gain a drivers attention at high speed and then pull of the wheel - just to see how well the other driver can slalom. (kids please don't do this it is dangerous and you might get arrested) Gel does not have much luck in his lovelife; he got dumped by a supermodel (it's true! every reader of those mags will have seen her pix) because he preferred to take his dog for a walk on the Malvern Hills instead of taking her out once. Of course, being a bloke, he now regrets this course of action but he's too proud to admit it. To help him get over this setback he has been known to don a dress on stage just to show off his supermodel figure to prove that he is just as good as her! This may be another reason why girls run away as their mom's don't like this sort of thing. Gel has an impressive musical C.V. having played with a couple of Brum based cult bands (Ark, Press Darlings) in his past but his real passion is that punkyfolky thing so he is proud to be here. Gaz It could be said of Gaz that he has spent some time seeking perfection. An amazing player of technical skill with a power that makes Sizewell B seem a mere triviality. This we know is not true but if Gaz were plugged into the National Grid whilst playing drums his energy levels could make all those Nuclear Reactors redundant. And good riddance too. Gaz is something of an artist - all that artwork in the band is his doing, quite a creative and he can do it with metal too being something of a not so jolly welder - just look at his kit baby. He first started playing guitar but this was so harmful to his fingers that he turned it over and just hit it; then demanded his parents get him a drum kit and he has not looked back since. Gaz brings experience and stability to the band, he has toured the U.S.A. and Europe as a session drummer before joining Bleeding Hearts and understands perfectly the rigours of life on the road where others would fail before him. More into Skyclad than Fairport Convention he manages to sing and play drums at the same time. A great feat indeed. He may come from Cheltenham?! Why?! He may have rejected gigs with The Albion Band and wished he was Filthy in Motorhead but he knows what he wants. A great singer in his own right but happy in the knowledge that he plays drums in the best punk-folk-rock band in the world. His is pure bliss.
