Lollys Lounge

Four years old?! Can you believe it?! I certainly can’t - time really does seem to have flown by. Here’s the birthday card I just made him (sorry Hasbro)

Just reliving the momentous event when our lives changed irrevocably (for the better?) here:-

http://s108767233.websitehome.co.uk/birthstory/mybirthstory.htm

Kid Pensioner feels the funk of Fattyboombasstic

“Oh no we’re just going to come over as really nice again,” bemoans singer and lyricist Laura James, idly twisting the head off a tiny kitten. Her band mates cackle as they take turns punching the huddled body of an old lady who had, moments earlier, “looked at them funny”.

Ok some of the above is not entirely true. Venue has invoked some dubious artistic licence to more clearly delineate the essentially sunny and good-natured demeanour of Fattyboombasstic, a band who are, by their own admission, “an antidote to all the navel-gazing angst-ridden middle-of-the road rock that is out there” Their Myspace site spells it out loud and clear: “Our songs are FUN and FUNKY AS F*CK!” [Read more →]

Well today we have had our first Fattyboombasstic photo shoot and got interviewed by Venue magazine!

OK so it was our mates Tony & Berry who were taking our photos in the sun in the garden and the park - but they did a great job. Take a look at the full set here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fattyboombasstic/

Then off to the Porter to meet David from Venue for our intereview. Sadly Pete couldn’t make it as he had to teach bass to someone. It was quite odd having an interview. Really us 3 just sat around talking nonsense for about 20 minutes while David recorded it on his Dictaphone (”Don’t be silly you don’t use your dictaphone!”) So goodness knows how it will turn out. I was worries that we were coming across to “nice” and not “edgy” enough - no tales of drunken debauchery or excessive drug use to entice the Venu readers I’m afraid.

Lets hope the pictures of us larking around in the garden pretending to be Charlie’s Angels is enough to titillate them…

I’ve finally got an “official” web portfolio web site. It came about from the fact that I was ever so slightly embarrassed about sending potential clients to lollyslounge.co.uk where they would find out everything about me, and all the sordid little day to day minutiae of my life - kids, bands, sheer randomness.

So lovely Adam Wyatt did me a lovely clean simple web design layout (and business cards too - cheers Ad!) and I built this little baby in just HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Who knows, I might turn it into a Wordpress theme - as I am obssessed with Wordpress at the moment - but probably not for a while yet.

Any comments or feedback much appreciated