The Batoffo Tour 2013

There are now enough dates pouring in for the Batoffo Tour 2013 to warrant its own page - see link on the right.

Let's Go Gospel

So Chris Huhne has pleaded guilty, and should - if there is ANY justice in the world - get a custodial sentence. Truly a Happy Day

[Chris Huhne was of course, multi-millionaire Minister For Chicken Licken Climate Change Scary ManBearPig Monster Will Get You, and is an all-round A1 scumbag.]

At last - the cards are in!

After countless post-gig embarrassments, we can at last answer the question "You were fab - have you got a card?" with "Yes!"

They will also make useful bookmarks, choppers of Colombian marching powder, and things to stick in rattly window frames.

(I'm not sure why, but 500 have turned up, so let's hope we don't go through with the renaming of the band - well, not for at least forty years.)

Exciting Rehearsal Update.

We've had a couple more rehearsals. The first involved Charlie, Ian, Tod and Dave, and was a fairly productive couple of hours brushing up some of the new tracks.

The last rehearsal was unusual in that Charlie, Ian, Dave, Tod, John, Dan and Jack all knew that there wasn't one.

Someone forgot to tell Mindy, though, who bravely struggled out to Shed 3b, only to find it in darkness. One phone call to Tod Bonnington, who had just reached base camp without oxygen in some faraway mountain range, established that she was in for a lonely evening. Apparently she made the most of the opportunity and headed down the pub instead.

Seen on National Television

Just for a change, it's not one the Old Gits themselves, but one of our most loyal fans - in fact, it's one of the Lovely Louche Ladies of West Meon!
Look out at 27 mins 56 seconds of this documentary. There's an awful lot of adverts and stuff, but the documentary itself is interesting, and the Lady herself does, indeed, look lovely.
It might be available for only a limited time, so hurry up.

Seen in the Press - again

Two more examples of the Thomas Lord Old Gits clogging up the national press - one from The Times (above), and the other from Farmers Weekly .

Monday's rehearsal

We had an interesting gathering on Monday. Dave and John and Ian were missing, but we said a big 'Hello' to Jack, who might or might not be our stand-in drummer for the summer. He ticks all the right boxes, inasmuch as he seems to know which bit of the drum kit to hit at which time, and has only one syllable in his name. Anyway, he stayed for the evening, and we await with interest if he'd like to come back!

The other highlight of the evening was the arrival of Hinton Ampner's vagrant/almost unemployed city boy aka Capt Kidneystones, who grabbed the offered microphone and proceeded to do the 'Shoop Shoop' song backing vocals - to everything. Close your eyes and it could almost have been Cher herself. Almost.

Meanwhile, here's the drummer at the wrong gig video.