..... just to let you know that you've reached the home of the lovely, the loud, The Legendary Too Drunk. So without further ado, I declare this site officially open. Let's rock ! Not 'arf !.
As well as playing with Too Drunk, Paul was invited to do some session work in the studio with long-time friends and indie popsters, Twister. They desperately needed a short, chinese looking, guitarist/keyboard/harmonica player and in no time at all they’d poached him as a full time member, and dragged him off round the country and parts of Europe.
Paul wasn’t the only one to be tempted by the bright lights and screaming crowds of more successful bands. Neil sold them out TWICE. First he was lured into the folds of King Prawn, a hard-core punk/ska band that he’d been following around for years. They wanted a skilled cornet player who was cheap. Neil was cheap, so he was half way there already. King Prawn were about to tour with Snuff, so Neil was folded up into a small suitcase, thrown in the back of the Prawnmobile and began disappearing for weeks on end with the constantly touring KP. As if playing with his idols King Prawn wasn’t enough, he also managed to scam his way into Dolls House, after falling in love with the singer when they supported Too Drunk at The Camden Falcon. Dolls House at that time were a poppy acoustic duo, with Martin from Voice Of The Beehive playing guitar and Alex singing. When they decided they wanted to become a full band, they asked Neil to play bass, and Woody, from the marginally more famous Madness, to play drums. In July 1999, they returned to The Camden Falcon for their debut gig, this time, however, headlining on a Saturday night in front of a full house.
At the start of 1999, Too Drunk claimed that this was going to be the big year, as they had every year since 1986, and this time it was. The previous year, Twister had headlined at a festival in Belfort (a town in France near the French/Swiss/German border). This year Too Drunk applied to play as well. They were pretty surprised when they were invited to play, and even more surprised when they were told that they'd be headlining on the Saturday night ..... on a huge stage ..... for an hour ..... in front of thousands of people. They were even more surprised when they played and the audience stayed. Too Drunk had been offered their fifteen minutes of fame and managed to stretch it out for an hour. Two weeks later they were back at The Horn Of Plenty in St Albans playing in front of twenty people.
To be continued .....
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Sorry but I have to say that this new player sucks. - I'm sorry to say that myspace
But wasn't myspace about finding new great bands to listen to before eventually bying ?
- What about new bands now ?
- Myspace are going very mainstream, commercial now and don't benefit the small bands that are upcoming and want to be listened to ?
- Maybe I'm wrong but My opinion is that it is still sucking big time if no downloads are available from new bands or can't they not choose anymore.
Yeah isn't it up to the artist ?
But I'm just a simple music lover - that loves to discover new music from new upcoming bands
I don't think I will use myspace so often anymore - will not be spending so much time hearing to such a mainstream project that myspace is turning into
Ello luvvy, how ya doin? Sorry its taken me ages to reply, my internet crapped out, Its embarrassing how much I relied on it to keep in touch with my friends lol! Whacha been up to medear? xxx
