Rock Skool wall of fame, and the Black Bull

Happy new year to you all!
and i hope you all got a hangover aswell.

To kick off my first blog of 2016 a few exciting things have came up!

Firstly Rock Skool in Herrington, where i started going when i first picked up the guitar back in 2009. This has been pretty much my second home of music, i've never stopped going after learning guitar and still getting lessons on how to play the dam thing! but after all those years i got my name on the wall along with Spitfire Bullets it is quite an honour aswell its just like being inducted in to the Rock and Roll hall of fame but with out the speeches or the snobby people in the front row wearing Tuxedos, (watch iggy pop performing at the RNRHOF to understand what i mean, like just go watch it now here is the link to it too >>iggy pop did you watch it?? see told you all them suited up people just sitting there not understanding what is going on lol) anyway back to the blog

So on to the Black bull for our first gig of 2016!!

and what a corker of a gig! it only started off with Rotunda offering us a support slot for their mini uk and Scotland tour but it has now turned in to a huge all day punk fest! i guess you could call it celebrating 40 years of punk mini all dayer gig! with a great line up too!

Did we mention we may have some new songs out too! two in fact we hope to be playing them live for the very first time aswell!

Acoustic solo supporting Logoz 8th August ashington

well i haven't had time to blog but here it is finally.

a few weeks back i played my very first acoustic solo supporting Logoz for me not gigging for a while it was a breath of fresh air.

soon i arrived early after looking for a car park space i caught the boys of logoz setting up the amps
and guitars, all i had to do was put in a battery and tune up my 40 year old acoustic praying the thing
wouldn't break during the set.

after about a hours hanging about it came to 8:15 and for my time to shine,

though feeling nervous, i didn't have the time to think about it i was more worried about the guitar dying, i kicked off the set with Ramones rock away beach then sliding in to 5th gear with cretin hop a personal favourite song of mine (as you can tell the whole set was mainly Ramones) while playing 4 original spitfire bullets songs for the first time acoustically, everything seemed to just go perfect, the full 20 min set ended with not a Ramones cover but a misfits track!! Astro Zombies which am sure shocked Peesh when i played it.

Peesh took over on stage with his personal solo acoustic set from his acoustic calendar challenge

these songs are just great to listen to, even performing his own version of only fools and horses hooky street track before slipping in a cover of the minder theme tune. all in all the whole set was great, the crowd was enjoying it the drink was flowing and the main band logoz hadn't even kicked off yet!

Logoz took to the stage with their amplified 100mph in your face punk rock, blasting out the tunes nice and loud (my ears were ringing for 2 days)

soon after the show, we all had a good chat then set off home.

on the 27th you can catch Spitfire bullets playing live and loud down at the corner flag with support from guilty and scilence fiction 

Radio Northumberland, Gigs and more

Recently our old drummer John had rejoined us to continue the adventure in Spitfire Bullets

In more recent news Rob was live on Radio Northumberland talking about upcoming gigs,
spreading the sound of spitfire bullets to the Cubans and attending the live radio Northumberland
under the dome event and hanging out with the guys from Logoz

GIGS GIGS GIGS!!

Spitfire Bullets have a gig coming up at the Sunderland local bar the corner flag on the 27th August with a small line up which will be announced on the face book page.

but if you can't wait till then be sure to head to Ashington to catch rob doing a one off solo acoustic
after finding a guitar small enough for rob and having to fix it up, hes strumming away and practicing a list of covers and originals for the set.

thats all for now folks but keep checking in for more updates

Review...Sham 69 Punk Fest

Myself and Sophie shot off in the car headed towards Selby with a full tank of fuel and sham 69 blasting while racing down the M1, We planned to stop over and stayed at a nearby hotel called the wishing well a very nice place and very cheap! we got down to Selby at 5:30 and drove around to find the veune on the riverside before checking in the hotel.

we hired out a taxi and headed down about 6:30 pm and bumped into our good friends LoGOZ
we just caught the Kingcrows during midset great band i picked up a CD after the show.

next was a rather grungy inspired very simple up beat cheery happy band bad dog no biscuit wearing hawian shirts and singing songs about not wanting to get out of bed. during this time i think i was on my 2nd pint of cider and sophie was on her 3rd jack n coke

next up was a hard core i'd say old fat punk band with lots of aggression and funny t shirts such as fat people are harder to kidnap. i remember the bass player playing a very pretty black and green i assume gibson custom thunderbird with light up led fret markers on the neck IT WAS SO PRETTY! I WANTED IT "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!"

Next up was LoGOZ kicking off their set with *Long time dead* whao!! oh oh" such a cheery tune man.
Playing a great loud 30min set they pulled the crowds in, including a very tall punk standing next to me with a huge mowhawk who made me fell like a hobbit standing next to Gandalf. the guys ended their set with their usual crowd fav Mexicola la while giving out good advice about ebola *Dont catch Ebola* message received guys, they had the crowds cheering by the end. i should point out sophie did a bit filming for them during their set, shes good with a camera i can say that.

after the guys set i was on to my erm 6th pint i think and sophie on her 8th JD n Coke the next band was very in your face, words can't describe what i saw but that tall punk with the mowhawk i mentioned in the last paragraph he was the lead singer performing in Total disfunction. it was punk hardcore, scream core, death core metal type but from what i saw it was very in your face and a big F**k YOU to the system

next up was sham 69 i was on my 29th pint i think and sophie on her 500th JD and Coke, (by this time i lost count) i saw sham 69 at Newcastle calling when they had a reunion with jimmy pursey the original lead singer of the band i was very lucky to see these guys in action thinking i will never see it again but here they are in front of me performing their classic "Hurry up Harry" and ending the set with "If kids are united" they played a great classic set taking you back to the 70's

so after the show and being drunk and happy we caught up with LoGOZ and said our goodbyes and with myself being in a hyper drunken mood went over to give the guys a hug and a lift (i think its my drunk way of saying goodbye n take care) some how alcohol gives me strength these guys are taller than me and managed to lift them all. i'm glad they all got home safely its horrible driving at night

so with the show over me and sophie were hanging about waiting for the taxi to come and we got talking to sham 69 & their tour crew we had a laugh made friends with them even got pointed out i look like one of the Ramones

in the end we finally got our taxi and headed to the hotel, it was a great night great little venue great bands and good drink.