Thursday, 28 June 2012

Toy Dolls recent events

Been out and about recently playing some great gigs and festivals with Toy Dolls.
Most recently played the great Zold Pardon festival in Budapest, Hungary. We played it 5 years ago and it was fantastic then, great crowd and hospitality. It was also the 1000th gig by the band. Here's a flyer for the festival
We had a marvellous time and it's always good to go on early (8.30pm) Pina Coladas after the gig all round, brilliant!

Friday, 8 June 2012

Back Again, Again

So, I haven't been here for quite a while, in a nutshell, moved countries and became a Dad, ahhh :)
Band wise been pretty busy. The Goober Patrol album 'Mind The Gap' finally came out at long last after multiple mixes and back and forth, we were all finally happy with the end result. 16 tracks of lushness have now been unleashed on the public. A bit destroyed by the amount of sites with download for free links, but I guess that's the way things seem to be nowadays unfortunately.The artwork is an homage to a band we all used to love The Crucifucks and I hope they don't mind. We even did some dates in Germany with great new mates Rockwohl Degowski We had alot of fun and had a few lovely German beers too. Here's a short promo clip I made for the tour -
The new album on CD is available here and if you prefer MP3s here 
Geographically it is harder to practice and write new stuff, but we're on it and have at least 12 new tracks to record for the next one.
Here are my favourite photos from the tour
Also been busy with The Toy Dolls - the latest album has just been released entitled 'The Album After The Last One' It features a song from me 'B.E.E.R.' (which also appears on the new Goober record) and a song from Duncan 'Draycott Avenue' and of course many songs from Olga. So far it's got good reviews and we are currently playing gigs and festivals. We just played in Spain which was great, here's the tour poster for it -
There's a video of one of the songs to promote the album too-

A so far up to date list of the dates for this year. There will be club dates in October/November too -
Off to Holland today for the Pedro Pico Pop Festival, hope it stops raining!