SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2008
BOB LOG III
UK & IRISH TOUR
SEPTEMBER
Friday 12 Southampton-Club Skulls @ The Talking Heads
Saturday 13 Bristol-The Thekla
Sunday 14 End of The Road Festival
Tuesday 16 Swindon-Riffs Bar
Wednesday 17 Brighton-The Engine Room
Thursday 18 London-Not The Same Old Blues Crap @ The 100 Club
Friday 19 Newbury-Arlington Arts Centre
Saturday 20 Liverpool-Mello, Mello
Sunday 21 Clonakilty Guitar Festival,
Monday 22 show #1 Myrtleville-Pine Lodge
Monday 22 show #2 Cork-Crane Lane Theatre
Tuesday 23 Galway-Roisin Dubn
Wednesday 24 Dublin-Upstairs at Whelans
Thursday 25 Belfast-Not The Same Old Blues Crap @ The Open House Festival
Friday 26 Middlesbrough - Doc Browns
Saturday 27 Newcastle-The Cluny
Monday 29 Sheffield-The Shakespear
Tuesday 30 Manchester-The Ruby Lounge
OCTOBER
Wednesday 1 Nottingham-The Bodega Social
Thursday 2 Leicester-The Charlotte
Friday 3 Birmingham-The Hare & Hounds
Saturday 4 Peterborough-The Park
Sunday 5 Leeds-Brudenell Social Club
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Bob LogIII
Bob Log III, Fat Possum recording artist and one man band crown prince of punk blues from Tuscon, Arizona, returns to the UK in September and October for a marathon three week Not The Same Old Blues Crap tour of the UK and Ireland.
The tour commences on Friday 12th September at Club Skulls in Southampton and among many highlights, takes in The End of The Road Festival on Sunday 14th September, NTSOBC at The 100 Club on 18 September and as part of NTSOBC’s inaugural foray into Ireland a special NTSOBC show included in Belfast’s Open House Festival with Belfast DJ extraordinaire David Holmes on deck duties on 25th September. This is Bob Logs first UK tour for four years since touring previously with Franz Ferdinand and The Kills and two years since his last legendary NTSOBC show at The Spitz - a truly memorable event, not only for Bob’s blistering performance but for the first and only blind stage diver at a NTSOBC show (true!).
Witnessing Bob Log live is an unmissable and unforgettable experience. By rights he should be a punk blues stadium super star. He takes to the stage with his face masked in a crash helmet with a black visor and a telephone wired in it for a mic and wearing a blue jump suit. Bob then unleashes a torrent of hardcore Mississippi Delta blues, hip hop beats and punk rock. The crash helmet telephone distorts the vocals and his hands, arms, legs and feet become a blur of jump suit clad limbs as he plays slide, triggers drum machines and drums with his feet simultaneousl. Bob then adds extra ingredients to this punk blues bouillabaisse with his unique version of audience participation. More often them not he’ll bounce a couple of audience members on his knees while playing, and then bring on the infamous Boob Scotch. The audience are invited to literally stick their boob in his scotch which he then drinks. If Bob feels satisfied he will then launch into his anthem Boob Scotch!
Bob Log’s identity and history is shrouded in mystery and rumour, probably helped by his stage get up and also when his record company Fat Possum put out an early press release claiming Log had a monkey’s paw grafted on to his wrist after a boating accident as a child. Here’s an excerpt....."When Bob Log III was a child, he lost his left hand in a boating accident. It was soon replaced with a monkey paw, and a new guitar style was born. 'It's my own personal style, see,' Log says, 'the paw moves much quicker than a normal hand, so my real hand has to flop around a lot to compensate.'" When asked to explain Fat Possum’s insistence that his right hand is a monkey’s paw, Log replied to an interviewer that, “My hand is just hairy. Very, very hairy. It is NOT a PAW. Fat Possum was drunk.” Log further clarified the monkey paw myth in an interview with Bizarre Magazine: "I've got all my limbs. It's just that when I'm playing my guitar my hand moves so fast it looks like a monkey paw, a hairy paw. My hand moves really fast. Faster than a normal human hand”
In fact Bob Log III was born in Tucson, Arizona and is a virtuoso slide player who plays with extremely thick strings tuned very loose that gives him his unique “floppy” sound. Growing up, Log listened to artists such as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and AC/DC, later commenting that "That's what rock'n'roll is to me. You take a guitar, turn it up and have a good time…everyone else can go listen to Pearl Jam if they want to.” Bob Log got his first guitar at the age of 11, and by the age of 16 he had become smitten with Delta Blues, modelling his slide guitar style on that of Mississippi Fred McDowell. Log began his music career recording with Mondo Guano, a four-piece metal-blues band based in Arizona. Upon leaving Mondo Guano, Log went on to perform as one-half of seminal early Delta punk blues duo Doo Rag. Bob Log III was born when Bob was in the middle of a US tour with Doo Rag and his drummer quit. With necessity , ever the mother of invention, Bob donned a helmet he had picked up in a thrift store, took to the stage and kicked his guitar case for percussion and thus the legend of Bob Log was born. Bob Log eventually found his spiritual home on maverick Mississippi blues label Fat Possum in 1998 and released a trio of classic records: School Bus, Trike and Log Bomb. He is currently working on an eagerly anticipated new record which will be released in early 2009.
In this current world of homogenised and mass marketed music, we need true mavericks like Bob Log III more than ever. So come and show your appreciation for Mr Rock A Lot AKA Bob Log III at a venue near you in September and October........
"And then there’s this guy named Bob Log, you ever heard of him? He’s this little kid — nobody ever knows how old he is — wears a motorcycle helmet and he has a microphone inside of it and he puts the glass over the front so you can’t see his face, and plays slide guitar. It’s just the loudest strangest stuff you’ve ever heard. You don’t understand one word he’s saying. I like people who glue macaroni on to a piece of cardboard and paint it gold. That’s what I aspire to basically” Tom Waits
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