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Hello Quadrofans!

It has been far too long, but we are back and have some exciting shows for 2010. Kicking off with Banbury tomorrow night, for those of you that like to plan their entertainment last minute. The Hughes has been busy working on possible festival dates for the Summer so stay tuned for more news soon.

In due course the shows will appear in the gig section on this site. Here is the current listing as it stands:

much lovings

qdpb x

Greetings Quadrofans!

Just a quick one to say that we spent last Thursday night recording a mostly acoustic session, complete with interview for the delightful Studyvox FM student radio station. Expect some acoustic mp3’s of our exciting new tunes up on the main sites shortly!

Oh and we’re now on twitter, should you wish to follow our news and updates there: www.twitter.com/quadrophobe

More photos from the Studyvox night are available to view on www.myspace.com/quadrophobe

Greetings Quadrofans,

Yes we have been at hard at work writing new material for your entertainment, and the first fruit of our labour ‘The Insatiable Return of Mr.B’ is now playing on our sister site at www.myspace.com/quadrophobe

Feel free to send us comments as we will gladly receive feedback!

Fish, chips and peace!

Jim

HA!

Indeed ha. For this was our 3rd gig in one week. That’s a lot of gigs and not so many weeks. Are we on a roll? I think it’s too soon to tell personally, but we certainly are popular. Well, I like us.

So the gig: we had been approached by Adrian Phillips who had previously featured us on his site tuna the day - you should check it out, it’s a neat site (can I say “neat” and still be cool? I dunno, but I’m going for it), and we of course said “delighted to”. Pete seemed disgruntled, but then again he often is. And we had the pleasure of supporting Avipaul (look at me and my hyperlinking. Took long enough to remember how to do it though) at said Fat Lil’s. Again, check them out, they make some good sounds!

The venue: Fat Lil’s. For those who have not been to Witney then you may not have heard of it. For anyone who has been to Witney this is the venue that you want to play. Situated just on a road (some road, dunno which one) leading into the town centre, this venue looks quite modest when you look from outside - you can see that there is a door and name across the top and that is about it. Venture on inside however and you can see why we were excited to play here. Walk on inside and the venue takes an almost terraced-house approach: seems to stretch on forever! Bar on your left (this of course was the first point I noticed) and stage straight on ahead, on the other side of the seating area. There is even a musicians area with lovely comfy seating just off the side of the stage! We then got the tour from Ade, introduced to our sound engineer and spent some time getting ready backstage.

On for soundcheck: and it was a breeze. Mics were set up readily while we were getting ready, stage was nicely sized for a sextet and all that was required was to blast some notes out (I blasted, everyone else played proper stuff) and rattle through a couple of tunes. And then on to the Chinese we went.

The gig itself. Good. Very good. We had a shortish set (compared to some of the others we have done) of 45 minutes and so we were able to produce a pretty tight set. A couple of new tunes were aired as well, though we stuck mostly to what we new (we don’t know a lot, but what we do know is….. good). And then Avipaul followed - very impressive set, especially the use of the Tabla (if you don’t know what it is you can look it up).

So a B+ for this one. We were treated very well, felt very welcome and the sound and crowd were excellent. Just waiting for our next opportunity to show Witney and Fat Lil’s what we are capable off!

Adam

Tis true! Oxfordshire Music Scene magazine have reviewed our new EP ‘Quixotic’, in their latest issue (6) available from the site below:

http://www.vitaloxford.com/musicscene/ 

They’ve many a nice thing to say which has made us all happy. Except for Pete who paces his bedroom in perpetual torment with a cognac in hand.

Quadrophobe ho!

We’ve recently recieved news that Adam Johnston, trumpeteer for popular music ensemble Quadrophobe has contracted hydrophobia from a Llama. Johnston, aged 6, was trecking across Peru on a spiritual journey, after having absconded just weeks ago with the band’s entire life savings: 3 shillings and a half eaten gobstopper.

So what is this greatly feared, but little encountered disease? Rabies is an infectious neural disease amongst warm, blooded animals causing encephalitis, depression, anxiety, fever, manic episodes, profuse sweating, vomitting, hallucination, dementia, problems, and death. If left untreated it can be fatal, and even lead to uncurable death in some cases.

The Romans used to apply a salve made of an old woman’s spit mixed with the entrails of an animal which had died of the disease as a remedy for a mild sore throat, leading to increased rabies.

Adam, also known as “Adam” within the band, has refused hospitalisation, and has instead booked a flight back to the UK on the advice of his lawyer. According to doctors in this country, Adam is currently highly contageous and should not be in close contact with any other human beings. “In his current condition it is inevitable that the virus will be transmitted to anyone the patient has close contact with” we were told by doctor Fanta of the Coca cola corporation. “I would advice him not to leave the country but seek medical assistance as soon as possible”.

Adam has not been contactable since his first diagnosis, although “his phone rang a few times before it went to answering machine, so he must have hung up on us, he’s just being a dick” said one irate Quadrofan, M. Wilkins.

Other members of Quadrophobe have declined to comment, citing “autistic differences” although they have released a press statement saying that the band’s thoughts are with Adam at this difficult time, and that, should Adam successfully gain entry to the country, he is welcome to repay all debt to the band, including his trumpet, which is on lone from the Louvre.

Ricky Longbottom

This website is the bee’s tits. Thankyou Robin Oldham, you legend!

…and welcome to the shiny new Quadrosite.

Hopefully you all like the new look quadrophobe.com, now complete with information on upcoming gigs, witty updates from the band, thought provoking blogs from Bombhead and oh so much more.

Whilst I’ve got you attention, if you’ve not already, you should check out the growing Quadrophobe digital empire, you can: join the ‘We are Quadrophobe‘ group on Facebook, add us as a friend on MySpace and even listen to tracks from our new EP (Quixotic) on our Last.fm profile. What a lot of choices for you all.

If you notice any problems, please comment on this post and I’ll be sure to take a look at it.

Cover artwork for Quixotic

That’s right, our brand new EP - called Quixotic - is now complete and it looks very pro

The EP features three Quadrophobe originals and one cover (although you probably won’t have ever heard the original).

1. Few Last Words (What Did I Expect)
2. Hey! Sir Penguin
3. Above Me
4. Super Badger

We’ll be touting them at the various upcoming gigs we’re playing, or you can get a copy by speaking to one of the band members and will set you back four of your Great British Pounds.

If you want to have a try before you buy you can listen to tracks on last.fm.