This evening, Gay Bum played our first show since Tattoo Jam 2015 - and also our longest set EVER! NINETY MINUTES! That's headline shit, man. Headline shit. Here are a couple of videos: Sure, sure. We infamously once played for 3 hours - but that involved a lot of repeated songs, an...
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After 96 intense hours, the days leading up to and including Tough Guy 2016 have finally released me from their carnival of madness. I don't have the words to describe them. I really don't. Possibly because I am physically and mentally exhausted, but possibly also because the descriptive potentia...
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After a year of battle (on the day before my birthday) I have finally been crowned KING OF LUCHA CHAOS! "Down in London, in the very weird world of the RetroFutureVerse, Freddie Mercurio became a two-time Lucha Britannia champion, downing Cassius in the main event of a show which also featured Ma...
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IT HAS BEEN ONE YEAR SINCE MY DEBUT AT LUCHA BRITANNIA! And what a year it has been... It really should try to compile some of my favourite moments... For the meantime, this will have to do: Merry xmas and a happy winter holiday from El Nordico Fuego! I'll be back and tearing it up at ...
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[gallery type="rectangular" ids="7137,7134"] Another month of Lucha Britannia mayhem has come and gone - this time with none other than Juventud Guerrera on the show! Sadly, I didn't get to work with him again, like at Wahaca. This time around, El Nordico Fuego found himself in yet another Luc...
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Here's a turn-up for the books! Lucha Britannia was asked to perform at Wahaca's Day of the Dead Festival: 12 hours of bone shaking music, food art and culture, celebrating contemporary Mexico, the living and the dead. After putting on a lucha libre workshop during the afternoon, we tore it up...
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I am not a Spartan Race World Champion. Let's just clear that up right now. Anybody could pay to enter the race in Lake Tahoe and not run in the elite wave. Indeed, about 10,000 people did exactly that - myself included, side by side with Scott and Amber Keneally. I say "side by side". I mean...
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"A Guildsman does not train for events. He wanders the Earth being mighty. He performs feats as fleeting extensions of his power. Like flexing." So sayeth the Guildsman's handbook, the code by which I live. Today, however, I am feeling a tad apprehensive about my blasé approach to physical challe...
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Last weekend, Gay Bum made a SEVEN HOUR DRIVE to Doncaster to play at Tattoo Jam and the associated Tattoo Masters Ball. We were invited up after we played at the Great British Tattoo Show and, much to everybody's surprise, were actually a little bit good at what we do. Who would have guessed, a...
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This weekend, the Ghost Squad descended upon Coventry for the inaugural Mudnificent 7, mud racing expo and combo-race. Seven different obstacle races, each of whom transformed 1km of a park into a representation of their own race: Tough Guy Big Foot Challenge Reaper Events Bear Grylls Survival...
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How does the time pass so quickly? I've barely chiselled the blood, sweat and beers from my pants and suddenly it's Tough Guy all over again. This time, Nettle Warrior - the summer version, for those who don't fancy a near-death experience... For me, the weekend was particularly special becau...
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Holy shit. I have just finished three nights wrestling at York Hall, alongside some the greatest names in Lucha Libre. That included Dr. Wagner Jr., El Hijo Del Santa, Cassandro El Exotico, Magnifico, Angel Blanco Jr., Mascarita Sagrada, Ray Man, Zumbi and Heddi Karaoui. It was...indescrib...
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Avast me heart-heart-hearties! Cap'n Rumbeard will be doing...whatever it is Cap'n Rumbeard does! Against Dean Michaels. Next Friday, 26th of June in Yeovil for Ultimate Pro Wrestling. Tickets: http://www.skiddle.com/e/12403762 or at the box office at Westlands Yeovil. The main bulk of th...
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During the Superhuman Games this weekend, there were moments when I had some doubts. Whilst collapsed on the grass, for example, with my eyes screwed tight shut in an effort to stop them exploding out of my skull. There was a hole in at least one of my lungs. There was a throwing axe buried in...
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This weekend, Gay Bum stormed the Great British Tattoo Show and played two sets, including a brand new and never-before-seen-heard-or-written song! During the first set, at the end of a particularly energetic STAY AWAY BEARS!, I dropped to the ground and landed on my head. Unfortunately, due to h...
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This month's Lucha Britannia was EPIC! Here is the Royal Ramble highlight reel: And here are some shots (of me) from AbolsutQueer photography: [gallery type="rectangular" ids="6843,6848,6847,6846,6845,6850,6851,6853,6854"] On the downside, I broke both my feet. Doing a moonsault. Thu...
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To celebrate nearly HALF A MILLION VIEWS in just eight weeks, here is a special little behind the scenes insight from the filming of the music video for Distant Past, by Everything Everything. "Working with Ed on Distant Past was a delight. He brought the fire til I was soaking in my seat. Primal, ...
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This weekend, I had my debut at Wrestleforce, as Surtr and the Sons of Muspell: a team created somewhere in the back of my imagination whilst I was sleeping, and managed - on this occasion at least - by Jack Hammer. Our opponents were Italian Dan and Subject 265 (or Bacon, as he was affectionatel...
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Or: HOW TO PREPARE FOR TOUGH GUY by the Guild of Adventurers The start of February marked four years since I first strode boldly (hobbled like a three-legged, drunken crab) onto the Killing Fields of South Perton Farm, to take part in the original and hardest obstacle race on the planet: Tough ...
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Today, Darrell and I took our Voodoo Pop Up Stand to True Believers Comic Con in Cheltenham to promote our forthcoming book. Here are a few snaps from the day: [gallery type="rectangular" ids="6676,6678,6679,6677"] More news to follow. It's all rather exciting! Currently publication date...
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