And....... relax ..... and then some

Well that was a busy month, which is why there were no blog posts. Now I am going to have a few weeks off to learn another chord and maybe another chord change and possibly write another song before the end of civilisation as we know it . . .  also known as Christmas.

So what has been going on - I have played three more gigs - two in Canterbury and one in Ramsgate, all three were very different from each other
The first was at the New Inn in Canterbury at a beer festival on a very wet and rainy bank holiday Monday as part of the support for a spoken word tour by Chris Clavin. Interesting night to say the least as this was another of the split sets with DeKadanCe and the set list just sort of happened but these were the songs that were played ... I think ... as copiuous amounts of alcohol had been consumed and I cant remember much and the set list doesnt help:

You're A Terrorist

This Means War

Drip By Drip

Race To The Bottom

Pissing In The Wind

Generation Idiot

DeKadanCe

They Shoot Children Don't They

Knight Of A 1000 Knives

Just One Life

Power & The Glory

When The Lights Go Out

Identity

The next one was the following Saturday at Churchills in Ramsgate supporting a covers band called The Shammed - they were rather good and the reason I turned up to the New Inn gig six  days before a bit worse for wear. The evening  with them was bloody good fun and those that were there said it was possibly the best gig I had done.

You're A Terrorist
Still Called Scum
Go Back To Sleep
Pissing In The Wind
This Means War
Race To The Bottom
Drip By Drip
Generation Idiot

And the gigs got wierder, the following Friday and now into September I had to open the musical proceedings at Konrad and Annies wedding reception. It was also the first gig that I was going to open for my old band The Warriors, Also on the bill were Konrads band The Half Wits as well as Sheppy punks -  All Flags Burn. The Commited were originally going to play but had to pull out of it and I know that they wanted to play it so as a suprise for Konrad and Annie I organised with Daz to do a Commited song directly after They Shoot Children with Kay - here is the video of both tracks. Conratulations Mr & Mrs Harris

And here is the set list:
 

You're A Terrorist

Still Called Scum

Pissing In The Wind

They Shoot Children (with Kay from Decadent Few / DeKadanCe / PCF)

Fast Lane (with Daz from The Commited / Betty Swallox)

Drip By Drip

Generation Idiot 

Identity  (with Kay)

The DeKadanCe CD has been selling well considering that we have never done a full gig on our own as DeKadanCe but all that is going to remedied next year when we open the Davee Wild Memorial Weekender at The Lady Luck in Canterbury, Kent on the Thursday. I am opening the proceedings on my own on the Saturday at the Maidens Head with so many awesome bands that the best idea is to go and have a look at the facebook events page here.

 DAVEE WILD MEMORIAL WEEKENDER

 I am so very honoured to be playing this as Davee told me a while back before his sad and very untimely death that I was the person who had played the Maidens Head the most in all the gigs he had put on there. I questioned this as I was quite surprised and he said it was true, he could show me the list of gigs I had done and with who and reminded me that I had played in three different bands (The Warriors, Surgery Without Research &  Crimewave) numerous times and was looking forward to seeing my solo stuff live. Sadly he never did and now I play every gig I do in Canterbury for Davee and I will remember that conversation forever, I will miss one of the loveliest, honest and geniune blokes I have ever met.
This is a very short poem I wrote for Davee the night of his funeral.

For Davee
Rest In Punk my friend
May the party never end
Keep it going til we meet again
Rest In Punk my friend.

Here are a couple of pictures of Davee that I took on a very dodgy camera phone in 2011 - this was at Nottingham Rock City when Davee had come in the van with The Warriors when we supported Old Firm Casuals and The Last Resort. The first picture is Davee having a beer and a chat with Lars Frederickson (OFC / Rancid) and Tosh (Section 5) and the second is Davee deliberately walking past while I was trying to take a picture of Lars dancing to The Last Resort

I'm A Lazy Sod

I'm not really a lazy sod, I just haven't had the time to update this blog as I have been rather busy sorting out the DeKadanCe mini album, playing a few gigs both solo and the first full DeKadanCe gig.
Im not going to bore the shit out of you with a rundown of what happened at every gig coz it would get tedious very quickly - so what I am going to do is post three videos from the three gigs that have been played since the last post - along with relevant set lists just to keep you updated. The next post will be back to the usual bollox and a new chord or two on the guitar, maybe a new song as well.

The first of the three gigs was in Canterbury at The Lady Luck Bar (with Anthrax, The Commited & Snide) - There is an entire video of this gig but unfortunately the sound didnt come out too well (Thanks for the vid Melvin)
 
Set List :
You're A Terrorist
Question Authority
Generation iDiot
Go Back To Sleep
Race To The Bottom
This Means War
Pissing in The Wind
They Shoot Children (with Kay as DeKadanCe)

Here is Race To The Bottom 

   

The second gig was the following day in Ramsgate at the Red Lion supporting  Cozy Dunts
Set List : 
You're A Terrorist
Question Authority
Riot In Progress 
Still Called Scum 
When The Tea Runs Out
Go Back To Sleep 
Race To The Bottom
This Means War 
Pissing in The Wind 
Generation iDiot 
They Shoot Children (with Kay as DeKadanCe)
  
We were going to do another track (Knight of A 1000 Knives) but my string snapped and we didnt have time to restring so didnt do it

Here is Go Back To Sleep


 
And the third gig was a novelty for me - I was doing an integrated set of myself and DeKadanCe at the same time and it was outside a newsagent on a Saturday afternoon in the arse end of Cliftonville.

The set list was as follows
You're A Terrorist
Still Called Scum 
They SHoot Children Don't They (DeKadanCe)
Go Back To Sleep
Just One Life (DeKadanCe)
Race To The Bottom
Knight Of A Thousand Knives (DeKaDanCe
Pissing in The Wind
In Chains (DeKadanCe)
This Means War
Power & The Glory (DeKadanCe)
Generation Idiot
Identity (DeKadanCe)
Blitzkreig Bop

The last song was balgged on the spot as Tommy the last of the original Ramones had died the night before - this was my tribute to him

Here is DeKadanCe doing a cover of Power & The Glory which Kay originally wrote with her first band YouthInAsia




And there you have - not such a lazy sod - until next time when i will be spouting on about the Mini Album

Thanks to The Welsh Tart for all three videos

Im an Urban Guerilla ...

Things are moving pretty fast after the second gig so this is a bit of an update as I have been way busy.

I'm very excited to announce a couple of releases coming up. First off I have a track coming out on a compilation album of Kent punk bands, this will be released on vinyl and CD round about September time.
More exciting is that I am about three quarters of the way thru recording a few tracks with a singer, who will go nameless for the moment as we haven't finalised what we are going to be doing but all will be revealed very soon and to say it's a bit different for me is a bit of an understatement. Saying that, playing acoustic guitar is a bit different for me as I am used to playing bass not guitar. I will say I am well pleased with the way these tracks are turning out and the whole thing is going to surprise a few people. We are looking at releasing two of the tracks as a vinyl single if anyone out there can help with this we would very much appreciate it.

I also have another gig booked, this time in Canterbury with anarcho punk legends Anthrax UK, The Commited who I did the first gig with and Snide on the 6th June at The Lady Luck Bar. This should be a packed gig so get there early as I will be playing a song I have never played before and may not play again we shall see what happens.

And lastly, I decided to record a cover version and no it's not a punk cover. Many years ago I had the priviledge of playing with the very talented and sadly missed Robert Calvert, he wrote this song in 1974 with the band he was with at the time, namely Hawkwind. The track was banned by the BBC and withdrawn as a single due to a spate of IRA bombings at the time. I have always loved this song so decided to record my version of it as a tribute to Bob and without knowing it released it as a download on what would have been  his 69th birthday.



Please feel free to download this or any other track from the soundcloud page. If you use this in a radio show or podcast - please credit me and and let me know - Thanks Russ Crimewave.