AHHHMMMM.... ASSTRALIA'S VERY OWN ONE MAN GOODTIME
RAGTIME SPEW BAND BUSTS HIS BAGS WITH A CHEESE-DRAWER OF FINGERNAILED GARBAGE
BLUES GUITAR NECKING AT THE SPEED OF A MAGI-MIX, ONE LEG STRADDLED ON A BROWN
SUITCASE, THE OTHER BEATING UP A BEATEN UP SOMETHIN ELSE, MUMBLING
INCOMPREHENSIBLE RUBBISH THROUGH A CHINESE STORE LOUDHAILER AND SPITTING ON A
BUNCH OF STOLEN PLASTIC FARMYARD ANIMALS. MADE FOR CHICKENS BY ROBOTS, HALF
BLIND, HALF SIMPLE, AND HALF BACKYARD MAVERICK.... You could say contrived things like this:
"If
you really want a problem buy this guy’s
record."
"Lo-fi.
No-fi. Fast and deranged."
"Outsider
bent-backwards-blues."
IT IS some kind of blues music, some
kind of deranged old early blues and the ragtime tradition then fucked up by
technology and crippled tonality, earache noise and abusive slapstick sound
effects. Fast fingerpicking weird guitar
interrupted by drunken tempo changes and warped backwards sounds. It’s cartoon blues music and to
see this show you will laugh with confusion and need to drink yourself into
comprehension afterwards.
"THIS
IS NO ROCK AND ROLL! IT’S JUST AS DUMB BUT MORE FUCKED
UP!"
Rubber
jumpsuit, blind boy fullershit, blind baked, and scum house are all noted down
as heavy inflences on MFCBR’s music. He also cites
Lightenin Shitkins as a lyrical advisor. He also admits to being in possession
of the original Robert Johnston acoustic guitar- “It’s a piece of shit, i don’t play it”.
He regularly
wears a home-made chicken mask, made from bathrobes. It stinks of sweat and
beer and people often ask “Does he ever wash that thing?”.... the answer is NO. He is
just about totally blind and somebody once said “He
reminds me of Stevie Wonder, but fucked up.” Done played on the back of trucks in Australia, in the basement of an
exorcism church in Belgium, gay clubs in Brussels, ontop of a garbage bin in France, on the beach
in Portugal, in brothels, bars and bratwurst stands, in backyards, bullpits,
and at barbecues . He’s a one-man-band made of weird
and like nothing.
"YOUR MUSIC MAKES
ME WANT TO LIVE IN
A TOASTER, AND FOR
THAT, I'M GRATEFUL"- Alcoholic Clown Records, USAMADE FOR CHICKENS BY ROBOTS came into the
world towards the beginning of the one-man-band onslaught that has gone rabid
over the past few years….. obviously inspired to try a four limb disco by
father Bob Log 111, he began with a show in an enormous Spanish nightclub
sometime in 2005. Through 2006 he worked on co-ordinating his thing, his legs
and arms and teeth and suitcase, sitting in his caravan in the backyard sticks
of Asstrailer. During the peak birthing stage of the myspace economy, MFCBR
found similar lonely idiots all over the world. IN 2007 he organised and
promoted his first international tour, all across Europe, with THE MYSTERIOUS
TAPE MAN (NZ) and JUNIOR DISORDER (Germany) with the release of his debut album
“momo hokey”on Stink Magnetic Records. The album was regarded “the work of a
backyard blues maverick” by Australian national ABC radio. As the international
one-man-band world widened and deepened and grew through 2008 MFCBR self-released
a few rare EPs (In The Beercan, The Wrong Brain & Piece Of Thing) and was
included on a slew of European compilations. He met THE DAD HORSE EXPERIENCE
(Germany) via an internet dating site and together they schemed up THE B.O.M.B.
FESTIVAL (Bremen One Man Band Festival) set for it’s inaugural debut April 2008
which included appearances by DEAD ELVIS, BECKY LEE, TWO TEARS, and MR OCCHIO.
So off the ragtime retard went back to Europe for a major tour, the release of
Got Shine 7” on Shit In Can Records (fr) and On The Trash Truck 7” on Gut
Feeling (de), he played Germany, Holland, Belgium, Spain, France, Switzerland
and Portugal and confused every living person who saw the show. Most of them
danced and drank. He sometimes wears a terry-towelling chicken wig piece. Since
then MFCBR has been included on various SQUOODGE RECORDS releases: “M Is The
Only One Man Band” and “World Wide One Man Band” compilation- as Australia’s
leading one-man-band fool.
And he only heard of Hasil Adkins in 2010
when he saw a video of him throwing a piano from the roof of a car…. In his
spare time he listens to Cypress Hill and Napalm Death.
In
2009 MFCBR toured Australia and New
Zealand and then decided to hang up the chicken hat and cheap suitcase
for a
spell, walk back to the caravan and domesticate kangaroos for the
international
market. After a few financially lucrative years at this he decided to
dust off
his 4-track cassette machine and old plastic microphones, yank out his
brown
guitar (rumoured to be the original guitar of Robert Johnston) out of
the
ceiling and start recording again… AND in 2011 released a new compact
disc "wump dang filla" on Baboso Records and a double-A-side 7" record
on Gut Feeling records "She's Fulla Gas/Get Off My Sausage". The
releases were followed by another hectic and obliterating tour of the
Europes with shows in basements, art galleries, fascist clubs and hit
joints. Moving more towards the robot element of the project in 2012
the latest 4-song-single will be delivered in April "The Wrong Brain:
Episode 2" on Germany's OFF LABEL RECORDS.    GET ME THE HECK BACK TO THE MENU | | |