by Enormous on November 26, 2008
Nelson has returned to London after coming to take photographs of the Enormous gig with B-Movie last Thursday.
He didn’t actually take any because he felt intimidated by some of the bands’ scary-looking male fans. That’s Nelson for you. Mind you, I can’t blame him; Mansfield is a frightening place – not best suited to glamorous tranny rockers with a big camera.
He’ll be back here in a few weeks to do a little recording and to carry on drinking with me like a divorcee at Christmas.
In the meantime, here is some rough video from the gig of a couple of Enormous songs.
Not great quality but I think you’ll agree that I needn’t have been worried that, after ten years away, we were going to sound a little rusty.
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by Enormous on November 19, 2008
Don’t forget to come say hello at tomorrow’s gig at the Town Mill in Mansfield.
This is the first show ENORMOUS have done for ages, and in a way it marks our long-awaited return to the rock ’n’ roll arena. Big night. (I’m not nervous, thanks for asking; I’m a little apprehensive that we’re under-rehearsed, but that’s nothing new for me.)
To mark the occasion even more effectively, Nelson Galaxy will be in attendance as the official band photographer, snapping away like a glamorous dervish with his swish new digital SLR. Afterwards – well, for the following three days, actually – he has promised to make me celebrate with him by ‘drinking a crate of Bollinger before finding some sexy female lady girl women and making them get crazy with us in the studio’. I have told him that I will do my best to comply, though doubt the likelihood of me reaching the standard he sets so spectacularly.
It is for this alcohol-related reason that I will probably not allow myself to go anywhere near the office computer for fear of emailing something embarrassing to various impressionable admirers around continental Europe, New Zealand or in North America; neither will I post any blog entries for the next few days in case I swear or attempt to bore you all again with some more of my awful introspective existential poetry.
In case I do: apologies in advance. See you in a few days.
Rock on, Tommy!
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by Enormous on September 11, 2008
Nelson returned to his London home yesterday leaving behind a very sad me and Audrey who will now wander from room to room for a few days, dejected and close to tears, sighing heavily in our perfect isolation.
He has pledged to return again in November, to witness Enormous’s return to the stage after an eight-year break.
We have tentatively promised each other that we will not drink too much on that occasion. Well, I have undertaken to adopt some kind of policy of sobriety when he comes to visit: the hangovers make his absence so much harder to tolerate.
Nelson is a little younger than me and has a few more years of heavy drinking still in him. I am trying hard to convert him, though – constantly evangelising about the benefits of being dry. I’m not convinced I’m getting through to him.
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by Enormous on July 13, 2008
This, from a certain Mr Nelson Galaxy, is probably the single item of criticism that Electric Baby Grand has thus far received of which I am the most proud:
‘If you do not already own this album I suggest you get a copy right now, it will be the best decision you have ever made. Singer/songwriter Davy Lawrence is one of the greatest songwriters of our generation – up there with Lennon & McCartney’
- And I did not have to pay him a penny for him to say that; though it is probably safe to assume that he was drunk when he wrote it.
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by Enormous on May 26, 2008
ENORMOUS are playing at the Old Library Theatre in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, UK on Saturday 21st June. It is billed as a ‘chilled acoustic evening’ – well, we’ll see about that!
The show will be a little odd for us as we’ll be doing it without a bass-player and without any trousers. But worry ye not because the Enormous phasers will be set to ‘stun’ as usual, so it’s bound to be a great evening. Nelson Galaxy will be there, probably banging a glamorous tambourine with lipstick on – him, not the tambourine; lipstick on a tambourine is just weird.
So get yourselves all dolled up and come and have a good old knees-up and sing-along. Come and say hi, if you get chance, and if you’re a pretty girl, come and say ‘Hi, Davy.’
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by Enormous on May 18, 2008
A young woman has just pushed a catalogue from a local cosmetics company through my letterbox. (No, it didn’t hurt.)
To accompany the glossy brochure, she has supplied a note upon which she has written in a childish hand: ‘Hello Im Kylie I will be call back for your order later today look like Britney Spears!!!!!’ Underneath, she has carefully written out her telephone number in case I need some eye-shadow or lipstick in a hurry and cannot wait until this afternoon.
On the front of the catalogue itself, she has written: ‘Look like Jordan and Katie Price!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’ (There were nineteen exclamation marks after this statement – quite a lot for a Sunday morning, it nearly brought on an angina attack; I suspect they are on offer at the Co-op.)
I have not the faintest idea what Kylie believes a man living alone with his dog would want with a make-up catalogue. Perhaps she thinks I need a make-over or just something light to bring out the blue in my eyes. Maybe she has mistaken me for Nelson Galaxy.
Whatever – what I want to know is this: who on earth would want to look like Britney Spears?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by Enormous on April 21, 2008
Five blueberry smoothies – that’s the best way of curing a hangover; the best one I have so far discovered, anyway. Add a little vodka to each one and within twenty minutes you’ll be feeling marvellous.
I tried working in the studio, playing guitar on some of the new Nelson Galaxy stuff, but I could not properly coordinate any of my appendages. I caught sight of myself in the mirror behind the mixing desk and I looked like a sweaty octopus trying to unhook a bra.
We used to have a fellow in the band that played guitar with his knees, so I tried adopting this method for a while but couldn’t manage it at all. The augmented-fifth chords are the trickiest to pull off when playing this way.
In the end, I decided to simply get drunk again. The decision was a kick in the knickers to my previous resolve to remain sober for six months but who cares? I’m a punk rocker, me.
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