Pant-throwing, beer-sucking, rock puking, phat drumming, health and safety flouting, man licking, Rose Bruford largeness.
Thanks to the Rose Bruford crew who lit that place up all nice and shiny, you know who you are: Safe as fuck, Princess, Cordelier and J.D. You're all lazy student scum with hearts of gold.
We got a few laughs, a few rounds of applause and the odd groan. This is what we learnt:
Other events of note are John and Ant's 4 song warm up acoustic set. People weren't sure if Ant had really thrown up before he came on stage until they went outside and witnessed the Rock Vomit in all its glory.
We also debuted a new song called Lick my Face, where all them guitarists got a damn good licking by the bassist. They tasted finger licking good.
Then it was all back in the van and back to Johns for the post gig 10 beers.
Thanks to all who came. There are still plenty of lovely demos available for a mere £2: cheaper than a pint and lasts longer.
Footage of this gig COMING SOON.
P.S Mr Sands is gonna get you
We thought we'd write a reveiw of the forgotton gig at the saltwater brigg northern ireland on the 14th may 2005. I think its unfair that this particular gig has been left off the website. Everyone should know about this extavaganza.
Well, the boys outdid themselves this time... while on holiday for the singers birds birthday John and Ant did a short support set for Dirty Work, a popular five peice pub band. The set consisted of one song, which may or may not have been 'I don't like my Children'. To be fair the reason that we cannot remember which song they played is that we had been trying to drink the phat drummer's weight in alcohol and were not corpus mentus.
Needless to say the local punters, mostly (and when I say mostly, I mean entirely) consisting of farmers who have little or no ability to read, seemed to enjoy the gig. Although, and I do not mean this as a detrement to the boys, they were a bit drunk and would have clapped the feilds of athernrye sung by a tone deaf lepper. However, they were large and in charge throughout not only the gig but the entire trip not only to entertain the lowlanders but to educate them in what they would call 'freak music'. Some of us speak from experience. On this their first outing to costa del northern Ireland they managed to impress the eniebriated audience as well as us hard core lbf fans.
Well done them. They brought the meaning of chav hatred to the masses once again. as a small afterthought, John should refrain from crossdressing in ther future, although beautiful, green eyeshadow is not for him, however well it compliments his figure hugging blouse.
Once again we save the day as bands for both gigs drop out. We moved up the bill one at the palace and filled in last minute as the first band at Archway. We only found out about the Archway gig the day before and were still on the beer from the end of the Palace Set: It was the gig of the living dead.
We played ok at both sets, in both cases to little or no audience. So as there were no witnesses the gig sounded as follows: It was high octane, 100 mile an hour rock with all songs played backwards to reveal the hidden satanic messages. The drummer was naked and covered in marmite while bumming the singer and the lead guitarist had a heart attack. Thus he did not make it to the Archway. Trev, you didn't miss much.
Low Budget Fiasco isn't just our name, it's a description. Sunday's gig at St Christopher's Inn focusing on the fiasco side of things (no room for a low budget when it's £2.95 a pint of Guinness, lest you can bring yourself to drink the cider). The other band turned up forty five minutes late by which time we'd realized we were head lining not supporting and that we didn't have a drum kit.
Fortunately John did some driving like he stole it and got the kit from Sidcup to Greenwich with time to spare. Not enough time to spare for a sound test mind. So there was nothing for it but for the singer to scream at the audience and on with the show.
All in all the actual cock and roll went pretty well, the modest crowd liked it, even including some bloke we did not bring with us who was much appreciating the avin it large we did during 'Burn all the Flags' having been enticed over to the stage by the fat drummers phat drumming.
If we learnt anything from this gig it is always bring the kit, and don't let the audience pick the last song, they don't know what you rehearsed. Aside from that we still did 3 extra songs at the crowds request and only made large amount of mistakes in the last song: Ghonahorea: Which is an acoustic song now god dammit, I've forgotten the chorus.
Dave the bass.
Yeah what he said, except there ain't enough bands out there that take themselves too seriously. I think other peoples opinions count.
John the Guitar.
This is a shameless plug…Low Budget Fiasco played the kind of gig that all gigs should be played like. It was the kind of gig that reminded you what it was like to be eighteen again, giving the audience and band mates alike a medium to funnel their post adolescent angst though! Witty lyrics, a moveable melodic style and buckets of energy was what it took to create a fantastic gig.
It seems to me that most band reviews are all about referring to who the band should have been like, or citing them as "the next big"… or "similar to"… but Low Budget Fiasco are the kind of band that is impossible to compare to anything else that you may have heard. Mainly this comes from two factors, firstly their style of song writing has no set pattern it would be impossible to define them as a genre band, and who in all fairness would want to? When listening to LBF you can hear the different musical influences that the band works under, but by no means does this create a hotch potch of musical allusions or something so abstract that its impossible to follow. It seems to me that they're difference in melodic style from song to song is something more for each individual band mate to utilise his skills within, as well as changing style to fit the subject matter..
Secondly what makes LBF original and refreshing to listen to is the fact that they stick to what they know. No preoccupations with hair styles, matching outfits or any kind of motif of coolness what so ever…thank fuck for that!! They sing about what their lives are about; fucking, snorting drugs and being phat with a ph! Occasionally they'll wander into politics, but without saturating the subject, more of a mugging off of society at large. They are definitely a band about having fun, exiting and entertaining to watch, the lead singer warms up the crowd brilliantly giving the audience a chance to participate! Isn't that what being cool was supposed to be about…inventive and exiting.
If I had to suggest what kind of music LBF fit into, I'd have to cop out and say "rock," they play rock instruments without having to be sampled or dubbed, they jump about on stage and drank pints while they played. They're the kind of band you wouldn't feel silly dancing to, nor are they too soft to mosh to…it's just a shame that the kids forgot how!
The highlight of the gig for me, and apparently the band and the rest of the audience was "Phat drummer beats the beat" a track that gave the audience a little more then what they hadn't paid for, and a shit hot drummer a chance to show off his hypnotic drumming skills…but you wouldn't believe me if I told you what happened! Other great moments included a chance for the audience to heckle the lead singer, and a funky cover of Gigantic (Pixies).
However, it would be wrong of me to suggest that Low Budget Fiasco played a seamless performance. Running three slowish tracks together in their set order wasn't so good. In all honesty they do need a bit of work doing, but there is nothing wrong with striving to make themselves better? Personally having followed them for a while, I'd like to think that their changeable musical style has grown with them, and am very interested in what they are going to produce next…somebody needs to give this unsigned band a chance…but don't take my word for it, go and see them for yourselves, otherwise you're just missing out!!!