February 'White Roses & Thistles' tour, SHEFFIELD Red House.

February 'White Roses & Thistles' tour, EDINBURGH Henry's Cellar Bar.

February 'White Roses & Thistles' tour, Aberdeen Musa supporting John Otway.

February 'White Roses & Thistles' tour, Inverness Market Bar.

February 'White Roses & Thistles' tour, HULL Adelphi.

Joe Buzfuz has bronchitis and missed last night’s Blang 5th Anniversary/Valentine’s Special. Tom Mayne took over the MC-ing. Joe is on antibiotics and an inhaler and should be ok for the tour next week.
See Blang site for news of the night.

WHITE ROSE AND THISTLES TOUR
Joe sets out on a tour of the kingdoms of Yorkshire and Scotland on Feb 18th accompanied by Polly MacLean who has guested as a duet singer on a lot of his solo gigs. It’s a homecoming tour for Yorkshireman Joe and Scots lass Polly. The dates are:
All February ’07:

Sunday 18 HULL Adelphi
Wednesday 21 INVERNESS Market Bar
Thursday 22 ABERDEEN MUSA (supporting John Otway)
Friday 23 EDINBURGH Henry’s Cellar Bar
Saturday 24 SHEFFIELD Red House

Note that the Edinburgh venue has now changed (it was previously at The Café Royal).

And there’s a tour warm-up gig on Valentine’s Night at Blang at the 12 Bar Club. The night also marks the 5th anniversary of the Blang night. See Blang.

LONDON Archway Tavern.

GUDBYE T' JON
Jon Clayton will leave his role as Buzfuz bass/cello player after the gig at The Archway Tavern next Saturday. Jon joined Charlotte Hatherley’s band as bassist last year and with 2007 set to be a busy year for Charlotte and her band Jon has decided to quit. Jon also plays with Stuffy/The Fuses and in a project with his girlfriend Jen.
The band wish him the best of luck for the future. Jon will probably continue to act as engineer/producer for Buzfuz recordings.

WHITE ROSE AND THISTLES TOUR
The Archway gig was set to be the last band gig for a while anyway as Joe is focussing on solo activity. February sees a short tour of Yorkshire and Scotland for Joe accompanied by Polly MacLean of Kinkajou on duetting duties. The White Rose and Thistles Tour sees Yorkshireman Joe and Scots lass Polly return home to visit Hull, Inverness, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Sheffield. See Gigs. In March Joe is to start recording a solo Buzfuz album.

SHAKENSTIR ALBUM OF THE YEAR
The Jewelled Carriageway was chosen as one of Shakenstir.co.uk’s albums of the year for ’06. As with Fire Horse the album was ignored in the mainstream press but appreciated in the underground!

CARGO DISTRIBUTE ALBUM
Cargo are distributing the Blang label so The Jewelled Carriageway is now available in specialist record shops across the UK.

LONDON Blang at 12 Bar Club
Joe solo.

Happy New Year one and all!
The first proper Buzfuz video, ie it’s directed and edited etc, is now online at Youtube and this website.
It was directed by Tom Mayne of David Cronenberg’s Wife with help from Hannah of The Bicycle Thieves.

Next band gig is sat Jan 20th at The Archway Tavern.

Joe's playing a bunch of new songs at the late slot at Blang Wed 10th at 11 30.

Happy Christmas to all who came to gigs or bought records this year! We hope you and your’s have a peaceful Xmas.
The first Buzfuz video on Youtube is a live performance of Who Are You? From the August gig at The Windmill in Brixton.
Last week’s Xmas Blang featured Xmas songs from all the acts and Joe guested on electric (“Judas” shouted Filthy Pedro when Joe played it in the earlier Buzfuz set) guitar for Paul Hawkins And Thee Awkward Silences. The Buzfuz set concluded with Filthy Pedro, Lou Psyche and Paul Hawkins joining Polly and Joe on kazoos for Fairytale Of New York.
Joe and Polly made their first appearance under the name Smoke And Mirrors at the Xmas Bucket Of Fun in Stoke Newington on Friday.


The band’s highlights of 2006 included:
The 50th Blang in March
The Jewelled Carriageway being released in September
The launch gig for the LP at Camden Rock Café
Swallows becoming the first Buzfuz song to get national radio play on radio 3’s Mixing It
Making their first video (for Swallows – more news on this very soon).


Expect news early in ’07 about:
A solo Joe tour of the kingdoms of Yorkshire and Scotland in February.
The video for Swallows directed by Tom Mayne of DCW.
Blang Records releasing records by Filthy Pedro and David Cronenberg’s Wife.
More Blangs at the 12 Bar Club including the 5th anniversary/Valentine’s special on Feb 14.
Happy Xmas
Sergeant Buzfuz xxxxx