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Things I Hate
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24 Hour Drinking
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Genre: Comedy / Folk Rock / Punk
Location Brighton, South, UK
Profile Views: 52769
Last Login: 3/13/2013
Member Since 8/23/2006
Website www.thefishbrothers.com
Record Label Prickly Pair
Type of Label Indie
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Bio
..The Early Years.... The Fish Brothers spawned many moons ago during a particularly heavy period of drinking. It was during the dark days when pubs shut for the afternoon and those long hours had to be filled via the off licence. Martin Fish (nee Edith Charnsworth) and serial drinking partner Chunky Charnsworth (no relation) had taken to visiting the magnificent Southover Wines and partaking of 'The FishBowl.'.. ..The Fishbowl Recipe.... Scrub a washing up bowl as clean as you can be bothered.. Pour in 2 bottles of strong dry cyder.. Pour in 1 bottle of dry sherry.. Stir with finger .. Take a plastic straw each (preferably pinched from scummy fast food establishment) Drink til merry.. Repeat if hardcore.. Usually after the first bowl was finished an album of old songs of the music hall cheaply purloined from a car boot sale would go on the stereo whilst Chunky and Edith sangalong with gusto. When finally 'The Eagle' - a notorious Brighton drinking hole - had re-opened the two runnies would stagger down the hill to annoy all and sundry. Then one day Gary the Landlord offered them a gig. Five quid and all they could drink. 'The Eagle' became the busiest pub in town on Sunday nights as people rammed in to sing-a-long to the Fish mix of music hall standards played in a very punk rock and drunken style which lead on to them writing their own material. Invariably one of the duo collapsed during the set but the whole idea was audience participation. Everyone joined in regardless of what state the band were in. Eventually the ungrateful landlord sacked the band for taking the all you could drink too far... Chunky left for France to play covers in big stadiums. Edith - now plain Martin - concentrated on being annoying. Eventually Chesty Charnsworth became the new guitar hero, Mass Murder McGhee joined as drummer and the first bass player - Captain Sensible no less - joined to form the 'Fishtastic Four.' After Les Pubshitter took over the bass, 'The Levellers' offered them the chance to support on their 'World Freakshow' tour as the band released their first album 'Sergeant Shitters Lonely Club Foot Band' to no critical acclaim. To quote Martin Fish "Its easier playing those big stages. People can't lynch you like they can in our usual haunts." They proclaimed their motto' Fish Brothers are Carp' as bass players came and went. .. ..Fish Brothers Bass Players (that we can remember):.... Captain Sensible (still punk rocking hard with The Damned) .. Les Pubshitter (pumped up Les runs his own barbers in Ch*ch*ster).. Al Jenkins (borrowed from hippy freaks Mandragora. He was a rare creature - a multi-talented Welshman. He left for the Alps. Too thin... Niall (Fish music was too simple for the Prog Rocker to understand).. Blonde Wanton (the wee genius still tinkles the ivories on Fish Brothers recordings, his own band is much more famous).. Rumpy Stiltonkiltskin (known for his cheeky Scouse chops and kilt he went mad with an axe and had to go to New Zealand, Glover sacked him by email, now back and still contributes backing vocals occasionally, can be heard at end of Squeezy Ball).. Attila the Stockbroker (BHAFC's poet in residence stood in after Rumpy went bananas, still plays fiddle live occasionally) .. Chuffa Charnsworth (the celebrated Didacoi Down's second resignation by text was finally accepted despite him being a smashing chap and dead ringer for Keanu Reeves) .. Taff from Disorder (played one very drunken gig at Bath Hobgoblin, we were all atrocious and were never invited back).. Paul Beard (Anal Beard's frontman, Grebn, is bass player for Fish tribute band Number Two aka The Albanian Fish Brothers).. Baby David (current incumbent has graduated through the youth cistern and is sometimes forced to gig in a nappy) .. Also Martin Fish occasionally bass meanders his way through Becoz I Luv U & Glover (Fish Brothers' producer) contributed a dub bassline to Piss Party on the Difficult Turd Album. .. Blonde Wanton played bass and keyboards on the 'Follow Thru' album and stuck to the keyboards for the next two offerings.. Chuffa Charnsworth bassed on 'Number Two'.. Baby David was bassist for 'The Difficult Turd Album'.. In 1994 the 3 main Fish joined Attila the Stockbroker as his 'Barnstormer' band, primarily to drink lots of free German beer. They went on to release their own anti-nazi Oi single over there as the 'Rear Gunners' and appear in the German feature film 'Doppelpack' as 'The Legendary Fish Brothers. They also became the backing band for 'Seagulls Ska' (2005) reaching number 17 in the national charts (and Number 1 in the indie charts!).. After 1000's of gigs, releases, appearances and banishments the Fish Brothers are the band that - like a bad smell - won't go away. They gig where others fear to tread. They bring stupidity where there is seriosity. They have lead a long campaign for 24 Hour Drinking. They have their own occasional radio show 'Straight From The Fridge' on Radio Reverb and always have an annual Fishmas party. They do a lot of good work for charity but would prefer to be paid good hard cash. .. GOOD LOOKING LADS..! .. .. ..www.thefishbrothers.com .... .. ..www.thefishbrothers.de .. .. .. ...... .. -
Members
..Martin Fish.. - Vocals.. ..Chesty Charnsworth..- Guitar.. ..M.M. McGhee.. - Drums.. ..Baby David.. - Bass.... ..The Duke.. - Transportation & Lights ..www.934tour.com .. ...... ...................... .. .. .. .. .. .. ........ ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... ...... ........" .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ........Vote now for....The Fish Brothers.... ....Fish Brothers.... | ....Create Your Badge............ -
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A Catastrophic Compendium of Cr*p (Kerrang! 2002).. But Then Gave Us 5 Stars one more than Alice Cooper..!
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- The Fish Brothers10 months ago
Martin Fish pays penalty for big gob
While updating the Gigs list on this venerable site, Fatty mentioned
that Big Roy's birthday bash - which The Fish play at this Sunday -
was in danger of clashing with an appearance by the England football
team in the European Championship quarter finals were they to win
their group.
In his usual pessimistic style (come on, the poor fellow is a Pompey
fan) he stated there was more chance of him beating King Dong in a
willy-waggling contest.
England not only qualified but won their group and now take on Italy on Sunday.
The show will be rejigged to run around the footie match (extra time
and pens anyone?) and Martin Fish is busy slamming his wanger in the
fridge door three times a day while making frantic phone calls to
exhume the body of KD.
That'll teach him.
Fsh Brothers to play family festival
ilThe Fish Brothers are delighted to announce that they have been
invited to return to Patchfest this year on Saturday July 7.
Fatty's local family festival takes place at The Patch (aka William
Clarke Park) which is accessed via Hartington Road, off Lewes Road.
Fish are on at 7pm but there are bands on all day plus a kid's stage,
beer tent, tea and cake tent, bouncy castles, stalls etc.
Alternatively, BYOB.
The last time The Fish played Patchfest, Fatty drank too much cider
and forced the band to veer away from the child-friendly set he had
written and play such non-child-friendly material such as Nine-stone
Rentboy.
He then went to a local hostelry and lost his horrid bag and a large
amount of Fish merchandise. The twat.
We promise he won't do it again.
OK. So The Fish failed in their bid to get on Britain's Got Talent
(for full story download the latest free Fish At The Wheel podcast
from iTunes). But now they are issuing a plea for the good people of
Britain to help them represent the nation at the Eurovision Song
Contest.
Fatty has tried googling it but failed to get anywhere so we need
someone (preferably a big, hard woman but we're not fussy) to do the
business and get Brief History of the World to represent the UK.
Baby David seems to think you may have to pay upwards of £80 to enter
so we propose to hold a benefit gig to raise the cash. But we need
your help to start a campaign on our behalf cos we're fecking useless
at things like that.
Reasons why we can WIN the Eurovision and restore pride to the UK:
1. We're younger than Englebert Humperdink (even Chesty)
2. Brief History is a classic song which deserves credit where it's due
3. The Fish Brothers are desperate and if we don't get some success
soon we're going to have to sell parts of Baby David's body
4. To prove the clinically obese/insane/lazy/incontinent (delete where
applicable) really can make it through the rain
5. For the good of world harmony and the cider and pasty makers of the UK
6. We'll throw a big party and give away free fags - The Fish Brothers1 year ago
German & Holland Dates May 2012
Wednesday May 2nd
The Poggs
Bahnhofstraße 31
Mönchengladbach
41236
Thursday May 3rd
Café de vinger
Bagijnestraat 25
2511ck den haag
Holland
Friday May 4th
Bahía de Cochinos
Wittener Str. 122
44575 Castrop-Rauxel
02305/9208749
bahiadecochinos(at)gmx.de
Saturday May 5th
Radevormwald
Private Party - Glenn Oneill-kane1 year ago
still crap after all these years new years eve at the duke of wellington in shoreham by sea was a great night
- The Fish Brothers1 year ago
After avoiding new media as much as possible, Martin Fish is attempting to enter the 21st century with a new blog and podcast.
Fish At The Wheel is a podcast where Martin trawls his memory banks for SFA and Fish Bros tour tales wrought from more than 20 years of music biz failure.
Recorded while driving down the M23, the podcast may be interspersed with the odd curse and occasional cry of "Warninglid!"
To listen to the first podcast - "Have you ever seen a popstar when he's naked" - go to http://fishatthewheel.blogspot.com/
Meanwhile, under his real moniker, Fatty has been appointed Pompey's blogger for the legendary Shoot! magazine.
To read his latest missive, go to http://www.shoot.co.uk/news/latest_article/C49/championship/pompeys_new_era/
- Randi GOuld2 years ago
Hi,wish you have a good day. - DIGITALIS2 years ago
The Fidh Brothers will be playing @ The Con Club, Lewes on Friday, 10th December. They will be supporting Leonard & Bubba's Delicious Goo Goo Cluster.
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