Post by brainlistrobot on Feb 23, 2005 12:11:47 GMT
The BUFF MEDWAYS cut a dash with their Victorian army uniforms and their vintage Vox amps. The gear may be old but as one critic wrote the band are "the snarled lip embodiment of rock'n'roll spirit rather than nostalgia or shabby revivalism". Live and on record The BUFF MEDWAYS are all about great songs and vibrant raw energy - no frills.
The new Buff Medways album, 'Medway Wheelers’ was recorded on an old 1950’s half-track machine with just two microphones. (The Buffs still use a 100 watt PA for their live shows and do not mike up the drums or amps.). “We aren’t a stadium group, we close the fifteen feet between us and the audience” - explains Billy Childish, guitar and vocals ‘neither do we hide behind volume, or celebrity’. And indeed The Buffs are still famously influencing the famous and scrupulously not exploiting their own successes.
25-Feb, Birmingham. The Royal George (0121 249 1236)
26-Feb, Coventry, Jailhouse, ( 024 7622 1274)
(The Buff Medways and Yumi Yumi)
25-Mar, London, The Dirty Water Club at The Boston Arms
The new Buff Medways album, 'Medway Wheelers’ was recorded on an old 1950’s half-track machine with just two microphones. (The Buffs still use a 100 watt PA for their live shows and do not mike up the drums or amps.). “We aren’t a stadium group, we close the fifteen feet between us and the audience” - explains Billy Childish, guitar and vocals ‘neither do we hide behind volume, or celebrity’. And indeed The Buffs are still famously influencing the famous and scrupulously not exploiting their own successes.
25-Feb, Birmingham. The Royal George (0121 249 1236)
26-Feb, Coventry, Jailhouse, ( 024 7622 1274)
(The Buff Medways and Yumi Yumi)
25-Mar, London, The Dirty Water Club at The Boston Arms