PHEWWW. Barfly

PHEWWW!!! Considering the crappy week BAF have had, Saturdays "concert" at the Barfly felt like a roaring success, like Neil Armstrong landing on the moon but in a sweaty room with guitars and booze, not space rockets.

Having had half our equipment lifted by some filthy tea leaf on the mean streets of Angel, Islington- we were not best prepared for Saturday- as all synth effects and drum beats had to be reprogrammed the night before the gig . Therefor we couldnt reherse with the new jazzed up drums (they dont actually sound like jazz thank fook) . Luckily with a bit of hard work, not to mention musicianship so virtuoso it'd make Beethhoven shit his pants and run to Mummy- we managed to come good in the end .

BAF would like the thank the entire Barfly audience for rockin' the boatshow and being so damn sweet to us after the gig, and the organizers for putting us on and kindly plying us with free alchohol. We love free alchohol.

BAF.

Oh My Gosh [last night]

Thanks to everyone who showed their superfly support for us last night, and i think we'll all agree fucking word up to TOM and the rest of What Would Jesus Drive? for being such fucking good sports. Seriously, Tom saved our respective arses last night.

In case you weren't there, BAF suffered a considerable blow last night when a bag containing our micro korg, keytar and drum machine (not mention my gators, my yellow hi- tops and THAT shirt) was stolen as we were loading the taxi. Don't ask. We're feeling proper shit about it. So we rallied together, got the drummer from the support act to drum for us, spurned synthesisers, turned the bass up and played the show regardless. It meant explaining to the Artrocker audience (who are dudes, and empathic to our shitness) what had happened and then beatboxing the beat of each song to Tom the drummer before we played it. It could've been terrible, and we yielded our headlining slot to Plastic Passion for fear we would short-change the audience by being, well, shit.

But it was okay! Tom was a superb improviser and anticipated the changes in the song (loud bits, quiet bits) and made us sound much better than we deserved. although now everyone fancies we should take on a drummer rather than a drum machine. Maybe....

ok so thanks again to WWJD? (who are also really tight and proper good anyway) and Artrocker for putting us on and not freaking out when we freaked out.

our thoughts are with mark who's especially gutted for losing his korg. it understandably meant a lot to him. But we are cool for saturday, we're gonna use a fucking MP3 player instead of a drum machine which kinda goes against our analogue sensibilities but we'll get over it if you guys will

Dan XXX

PS! WE ARE ON AT 00:30 on Sunday morning at Barfly! So that's half past midnight 12-hour clock fans.