For Halloween, I journeyed back down to London (by MEGATRAIN) to play at the Bar Solo Halloween Freakshow! On a whim, we decided to write and play a new song in honour of Halloween. So we did...and we actually played it. It is called Brains and is a tribute to zombies... ...it is also the fi...
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Today was nothing special - just a standard chest session at Immortals Gym in Sheffield. It is taking me a while to recover my chest strength, but this is nothing unusual - I tend to overcompensate using my arms and shoulders, which are disproportionately strong compared to my chest. The big lif...
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Everybody knows that we Guildsmen honour the Full Moon and, in return, are blessed with twice our normal strength beneath its glow (when it bothers coming out from behind the clouds). I am not a man prone to 'freaking', but when I discovered that January-2014's Full Moon (the Wolf Moon) lands exa...
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Today was my first dedicated leg session at Immortals Gym in Sheffield. I didn't go too overboard, however, because I have a gig later this week and I need my legs in order to leap around as pictured. With squats being my main big exercise for the day, I decided to go for a few sets at 100kg. At...
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This week, we had the honour of being specially invited to play at the opening of the Behind the Boosh photogrpahy exhibition in the Camden Proud Gallery. The exhibition features the best behind-the-scenes photos taken by Dave Brown (Bollo) during his decade of working on the Mighty Boosh. ...
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Yet again, I have had the moonlight beaten out of me in High Wycombe. This time, however, it was in a tag match...and I won! Or rather, Eddie Dennis won and I had the fortune of being on his team. Even so, it totally counts as a victory and is my first win at EWA this year! In this gallery...
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In an attempt to get marginally stronger again, I have considered following this Guildsman's Strength routine. The problem, however, is that is starts out quite easy. Three sets of eight reps at 60% of my one-rep maximum doesn't feel like it is doing anything. I know it is, I know that I will w...
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I have not been squatting as I should. In fact, since I went travelling in March I may have only done two squat sessions... So it was that, after a mighty Volbeat gig the night before, I awoke in the same house as fellow Guildsman Simon Lowe and thus resolved to lift mightily after a fine breakf...
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My third session at Immortals Gym in Sheffield was quick morning chest session. Once again, I probably started too heavy to get through the number of sets I had in mind. Lacking any dip bars, I used chest press instead and finished the session with some extra work on my right side, which is lagg...
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Although I lost my rematch with Crazy J, the photographs make it look like I did rather well! [gallery type="rectangular" ids="5150,5156,5149,5151,5152,5153,5154,5155,5157,5158,5159,5160,5161,5162,5163,5164"] Photos by the very talented Jo Gardener....
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A Guildsman must be strong. This is vital. So behold: a fairly solid Guildsman's strength training routine. It is based over 14 weeks of training four times per week. Follow it and ye shall become mightier than ever beofre. To prepare for this routine, take about a month to get into condition...
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My second session at Immortals Gym in Sheffield was a quick session, focusing on back and biceps. At the end, I did some leg curls out of sheer guilt. Once again, the lack of weight markings on the plate stacks means I have had to record the number of plates rather than the weight for some exercis...
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My first session at Immortals Gym in Sheffield was a chest and triceps affair. Then I threw in some squats at the end, for fun. Being one of my first sessions backs after months and months, I overestimated myself and started far too heavy. As a result, I failed to achieve the number of reps and...
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As part of our on-going tour of North London, the Bum This time, we were joined by the masterful Al of PUMP Photography who also trains and shoots for Lucha Brittania. Through his camera, we looked even better than we do in reality: [gallery columns="4" type="rectangular" ids="4531,4529,453...
Continue reading ...For the last seven weeks, I have been suffering with somethingorotheritis. I picked it up in Cambodia, threw up multiple times every day for a month and have since been incapable of eating anything much without suffering with cramps, sweats and blurred vision beyond about four feet. This ailment ...
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This week, the Guild struck out for the Lake District in search of a secret cave somewhere in the Langstrath Valley. Simon set out on Tuesday afternoon and picked me up in Sheffield. Even if we couldn't find the cave that day, we were hoping for a sneak peak into the valley when we arrived. Alas,...
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I need to get fit. Much as I have loved the last 5 months of adventuring, it has not been good for my health. Too much beer, too many cakes and too long sitting on long-haul transportation has done terrible things to my body. I am fatter than ever before, my muscle has shriveled to the point of u...
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Seriously, fuck travelling by bus in Laos. It is 600km from Luang Prabang to Chiang Rai...and it has taken us 40 hours. FORTY HOURS!! That's long enough to build my own bus, find and extract my own oil for petrol AND drive to bloody Thailand! 40 hours. Most of which were spent thus: [galler...
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After some much-needed recovery time in Vang Vieng, we catch a morning minibus to Luang Prabang. Although it isn't a very long bus by our standards, it is probably one of the worst; the road to Luang Prabang is slow and winding to a nauseating extent. It is a mere 185km, but it takes us all day a...
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24 hours after eating our Happy Pizzas, we are still pretty stoned. 48 hours later, we still feel rather strange. The last 2 days have been hell. Who mixes weed and mushrooms?! As if thinking something is trying to kill you isn't bad enough, now you can see it too! To be fair, it probably doesn't...
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