I've just shoved a calendar-style thing on my Facebook page, so you can see where I'm going to be, what I'm going to be doing, and when! Now it's easier than ever to come say hi at Gay Bum gigs, Ghost Squad race hauntings, comic conventions and wrestling shows! Hopefully that means I won't keep ...
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You're god damn right. Three years after our Leefest debut, we RETURNED at Leefest 2016: The Neverland! And this time, we HEADLINED! Well. Technically. I mean...we played last. That's the same thing, right? After Circa Waves had finished playing the main stage, we did a second 'stripped back'...
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SOMEHOW - despite my intro music hitting at 20:15 at York Hall in Bethnal Green - I made it to Reading in time to play Gay Bum's guest slot at the final of Bloodstock's Metal 2 The Masses. I didn't have time to get changed. I didn't even have time to catch my breath. I did, however, have ti...
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Tonight, we had the huge pleasure of being the closing act of the PUMP 999 Photography Exhibit, to celebrate 999 days of PUMP! Al Veryard, the ludicrously talented power behind PUMP Photography, has taken some - if not all - of the best photos of Gay Bum over the last five years. He is also th...
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Last night was Gay Bum's first time playing in Reading, and we did so at the Face Bar. 'tis an excellent venue! Great people, wonderful sound, and cheap Polish beer for sale at the off license around the corner. The only problem with cheap Polish beer is that if you drink all of it (followed b...
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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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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, 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 afternoon, Radio 1 played Love Is Not Control by To Kill a King. A few minutes ago, they played their "hottest song in the world": Distant Past by Everything Everything. As far as I know, those two songs only have one thing in common... Their music video is me beating somebody up. Dist...
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This evening, Gay Bum played at Play All The Things at the Lucky Pig cocktail bar. I appreciate that there is nothing massively interesting about that in itself, especially seeing as we only played three songs. What is fairly interesting, however, is that for the first time since about 2009 we wr...
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Finally, after years in the planning and months of varied degrees of preparation, Bowa Town has played its first gig. The plan was simple: Will would do guitar and vocals, I would do bass and vocals and we would launch the drum tracks and stage ambiance off a Novation Launchpad. So it was we h...
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This year, we have set off for Download even earlier than usual! We normally leave at about 05:00 from High Wycombe. This year, we're actually going up the night before and staying over, to ensure we can pitch our entire empire of tents: Rumhold, with the great tent Rumhalla at its cetnre. I p...
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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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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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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...
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"The long-haired singer randomly shoved a big cake into his own face and, to the amusement of the audience, he later slipped over it too. It was a hilarious and bizarre introduction to LeeFest and set the tone for the rest of the day." - Angie Quinn, Reviewing LeeFest 2013 for Newsshopper Yesterday,...
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Ladies and gentlefaces, Gay Bum will now officially be playing LeeFest 2013! I say 'officially' because we do tend to sneak into things like this and play anyway... ..we call it Blitz Gigging. On a lineup that includes the Noisettes, Delphic, The Skints and London Grammar, we might look a little ...
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Now that I am back in the UK, it only makes sense to bring back one of the best things about my life at home. My band, the incomparable Gay Bum. After 2 years of absence from the UK music scene, we have decided to do some kind of comeback tour. We are calling the tour Cumming on Back, for obv...
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First off, don't panic - this is an old X-ray. It was taken after a gig I played at the Hoxton Underbelly last year. I punched the stage at the end of the second song of the set and broke my knuckle. I couldn't really get a good photo of it, but you can see where the end of the 5th metacar...
Continue reading ...I know it's not strictly Ed vs Sport-related, but yesterday was my band's final official gig... Though I long to explicate in wondrous prose and expound the myriad virtues of our performance…alas I cannot. As the ancients uttered long before we knew such wisdom: I was blinded by the rock…and...
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