Joe was interviewed about Blang Records on last Friday's Bad Punk show on Resonance FM hosted by Johny Brown of The Band Of Holy Joy. Tune in here.

Joe's lockdown 8 track portastudio project The Flying Chaucers have released 'their' first single 'Down With The Creeps'. Check the reviews at Monolith Cocktail and Dancing About Architecture.

Fox Pop is reviewed in this month's Shindig mag 

Here's a lovely review of Fox Pop from OndaRock in Italy. Click the button at top for charming translation

"a workshop in great lyric writing... magnificent... highly recommended"  
New Fox Pop review at I Don't Hear A Single

"it grabs by the neck and fills your head and heart with joy.... will make you think, laugh and dance a lot, possibly all at the same time"
Album review at Angry Baby 

"the very English charm of a Syd Barrett solo album, and a host of melodies that recall the wistful observations of The Kinks or The Small Faces.... a very satisfying listen" 
Album review at God Is In The TV 

Joe talks Joyzine through Fox Pop track by track here

Last Saturday's Hello Goodbye show on London's Resonance 104.4 FM had a feature on Sgt Buzfuz. 

An interview with Joe about the Fox Pop album and four tracks. Listen here

Interview with Joe about Fox Pop with Vents magazine.

Folk Radio are previewing the new video for Theresa McKee which is a track from our new album Fox Pop due in July. Click here to watch.  

Gideon Coe played Theresa McKee from our upcoming Fox Pop album on his 6 Music show last night. You can listen at 3:07 on this link. 

Last night Gideon Coe played another track from Fox Pop (due in July) on his 6 Music show. he played the Sheffield medley Who Art In Seven Hills (our version of the Lord's Prayer) and Rare & Racy (about a sadly lost record/book shop). Listen here at 1 hour, 11 mins.

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Gideon Coe played our forthcoming single 'There's Idiots, Then There's idiots With Money' on his BBC 6 Music show last night. Second track in on 4 minutes but the whole show is great. Listen here.  

Joss has released his second solo album 'Indefinite Particles' on Ian's Gare Du Nord label. Check out Joss talking about all kinds of things in this interview with Strange Brew. 

William Barr - 12 string guitar, mandolin 

Ian Button - drums

Joss Cope - bass

Stu Crane - guitar

Polly MacLean - vox

Eilish McCracken - fiddle, keyboards, flute, whistle

Joe Murphy - vox, guitar

Sergeant Buzfuz are a seven piece popular beat combo based in London and Sheffield.

The seventh Buzfuz album, Fox Pop, is due in 2020.

Sergeant Buzfuz have played BBC 6 Music sessions for Tom Robinson (twice) and Marc Riley.

Buzfuz have been to Abbey Road to master the new album. Here are Joe, William and Ian visiting the famous Studio 2 which happened to be free that day.

We begin recording a new album in late August at One Cat in South London.

Joe plays a solo set at Rockstock & Barrel Fest near Derby in late September.

Joe and Polly are now living in Sheffield.

Our bassist Joss Cope has a solo album our on our drummer Ian Button's Gare Du Nord label in the Autumn. Here is the first review from Retro Man.

Gideon Coe played "Humble Pie", the title track of our upcoming EP on his BBC 6Music show last night. You can hear it here at 37 mins:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ch5by

Joe talks with Under The Influence about Blang Records

"London: A Love Story", the 30 minute documentary film by Susanna Hellden, was screened at the Portobello Film Festival last night. The film features 4 musical acts from London including Sergeant Buzfuz. The Buzfuz footage includes the band miming to "Danny's Room" in their Hollway Road rehearsal studio and an interview with Joe in St James's Church Garden in Clerkenwell.

Interview with Joe at Public Pressure about Blang Records.

New interview with Joe and Jules Dakin talking about ten years of Blang Records.

The July/August edition of R2 magazine includes a half page feature on Sergeant Buzfuz. Available at all good newsagents (mostly the larger ones). The covermount CD includes "Move, Carmelita" from the new album. Here's a scan of the article.

Joe contributes a cover of "Adieu To All Judges And Juries" to a new Shirley Collins tribute album. Starting life as a digital collection of songs recorded by various artists for the Crowdfunding campaign for independent documentary film "The Ballad Of Shirley Collins", the album has grown into the triple vinyl "Shirley Inspired" out now on Earth Recordings, with a CD version available in the Autumn.

The limited (1000) vinyl album features contributions from Alasdair Roberts, Lee Ranaldo, Graham Coxon, Will Oldham, Trembling Bells, Stewart Lee, Bonnie Dobson, Rachael Dadd, Sharron Krauss, Sally Timms with the Mini Mekons, Rozi Plain, Olivia Chaney, Tunng and Farao, Orlando and Tom Furse (The Horrors) and fellow Blang artist and Sergeant Buzfuz backing singer Slate Islands (AKA Polly MacLean).

This review from The Vinyl District mentions Joe's and Polly's songs: 

Podcast of Joe, William and Polly on last week'd Joyzine show on Croydon Rado. Three songs and interviews. Here

Our new single 'S6 Girls' is officially out on March 9. It's the story of a group of girls having a night out in Sheffield and the B side 'S6 Sunday Morning' continues the story the next day. It's available as a 40 page comic book, with the lyrics illustrated by Julia Homersham, with free CD-R in a PVC wallet, on sale at shows and at the Blang shop. Both tracks are available now at the Blang shop (A side is at all online stores now and B side will be there on March 12).

Here is the brand new video which is basically the comic book

The album is released on Easter Monday, April 6. There's a London launch party with the whole band, which will be a special free show (more details next month) and Joe is playing a bunch of shows in the Scilly Isles, Ireland, Leicester, Sheffield and Liverpool.

Oh and there's a very early review of the album here 

Dates are on the Gigs page. Shows outside London are Joe solo.

Sergeant Buzfuz finish the year with a show at the Stag's Head in Hoxton this Friday (onstage 9.15)where all seven of us will be bringing festive cheer to the urchins of east London. Before that Joe and Polly (AKA Murphy MacLean) play at the Under The Influence Alternative Christmas Service at the Boogaloo in Highgate tonight, playing two of our songs and a Xmas spin on a Talking Heads song.

Monday December 15th
Under The Influence Alternative Christmas Service with Sergeant Buzfuz, The Antipoet, Simon Cleary, Lee Nelson and more.
£3 entry.
Doors 7 30 pm. Music 8 pm.

Friday December 19
Broken Light VI at Stag's Head, 55 Orsman Road, N1 5RA
Also playing: Rotifer (with Ian on drums),Solid States (Thee Intolerable Kidd's new band)  and more.

£5 entry

12 Bar Club Closure.

Some of you may have heard of the forced closure of the 12 Bar Club by property developers on January 16th. Not just the 12 Bar but the whole musical history of Denmark Street is to be destroyed to make way for a yuppie development. The original Tin Pan Alley, notable worldwide for it's music shops and it's history of recordings by the Beatles, the Stones, Hendrix, etc and the Pistols' rehearsal space (I'm guessing the graffiti covered wall there is also doomed). If Denmark Street existed in say Paris there is no way such cultural heritage would be allowed to be sold. Indescribably sad. Another example of this city going down the pan. There is talk of me putting on a final Blang night in the next month. I'll let you know.

It's been a year of very mixed blessings for me. I hope your's has been more peaceful. Have a great Christmas and New Year everyone.

Joe X