It's Not Unusual

Sir Tom Jones at Tatton Park. A lovely night, with a picnic, shit-loads of booze and friends. We had a blast! (That's the stage at the back, with TJ on it - honest!)

1650

That's when The Bowling Green Pub in Northwich dates from. We were there tonight doing sound and lights for Thick As Thieves. An excellent show to a packed house!

New Romantics Electrifying!

Sq1 Unsigned and Micro/Al/Dop, Whalley and Stricky rocked! We gave them lasers too! Here's AB with Micro and Stricky after the gig.

Micro's New Romantics go acoustic

Micro Al and Whalley played a great acoustic set down at The Imp. Tomorrow we do the full electric band at Sq1!

Lee

Lee Garner and AB. At the pub.

Foulplay @ The Manor

The band went to the pub to discuss new songs. Here's AB, Neil and Bibby.

Boxjam Meeting

Boxjam III is confirmed for the weekend of 29th and 30th October. It's goingto be a two-day extravagansa this year! Here's AB with Jaydot at a planning meeting,

Celeb Central

Here's AB at The Blues Kitchen, patiently waiting for the band to start. Pete Doherty was propping up the bar. Then we called at The Wheelbarrow, where Mumford and Sons were holding court before their DJ set.

Camden!

In Camden for the weekend. We happened to be having a pint in the Hawley Arms, one of her favourite boozers, when the sad news broke about Amy Winehouse. RIP.

Esaius

Andy Salter and his band came all the way from the Wirral to play Sq1's Unsigned Friday showcase!

Exhausting

Oakridge Ben has put a new exhaust on the Badger Bus today. Here's AB inspecting his handiwork (as if badgers know anything about mechanics!!).

Bored Badger

AB is fed up. Nick has gone to Dublin and Mat is in New York.

He's that bored that he's decided to read some of his old bass magazines.

He really must be bored!

Tattoo Steve

Here's Nick Badger with AB and Tattoo Steve (guess what he does for a living!).

Not sure what Nick and Steve are looking at...

Chimping

Here's AB with Howie and Nik from CODR. ;)

SnakeyFest

We popped to The Shady Oak at Tiverton to catch a bit of Pete Johnson's SnakeyFest. It rained.

Great Barrow

Foulplay went on a rare road trip today to play at Barrow Social Club, somewhere in the middle-of-nowhere by Chester-ish. Big thanks to Steve for the hospitality, we had a right good time! Here's a pic of AB and the band with Mat Badger loading the van after the show.

Thick As Thieves

Sq1 tonight with Winsford lads TAT. Usual indie offering delivered with gusto. Good fun, as always! Here's Nick, AB and the singer/guitarist.

Nathan and Adam

Moore and Ward. Half of ValveRider and regular Badger acoustic guests were this week's Acoustic Addiction featured artists. An acoustic rock masterclass from two absolute gents!

Junker

It's all about murder....

London Town

A trip out for AB today. Here he is at Studiospares in North London!

Lutherie and repairs

Haydon Cardew looks after Nick Badger's guitars. Here's AB in Haydon's workshop.

Resist No More

Stoke rockers The Resistance wanted a pic with AB, so we obliged!

Bidstock

Bidstock today. Five bands - Chimps On Death Row, Cupids Gun, Elvis For Jay, The Resistance and the mighty Junker! A great day. The new PA performed well, it only rained briefly and Nick Badger had the unexpected pleasure of guesting with Junker on 'Eureka! She's Dead'. Here's AB watching Junker + guest!

Badger's Brass Bridge Buttons

Well, bridge pins actually. AB is swapping the pins on Nick's acoustic bass for these new, sexy, brass ones.

Strategy Meeting

Here's Mat, Abby, Nick & AB at a very serious planning meeting.

Fixer

Talking of leads, AB has got a new toy and has promised to fix the MOUNTAIN of dodgy leads that we've got at Badger HQ!

Wired

AB has got a load of new leads ready for Bidstock on Saturday!

Badger Porn

AB is perusing the Studiospares catalogue. Lots of nice things!

Mr Blue Sky

Day Two at Chester Rocks. Jaydot and Tina MW were there with press passes, and we also saw Liz and Dr Gav from RedShift Radio and Tattoo Steve too! Sun, sun, sun and beer, beer, beer!

Chester (The) Saturday(s)

Day One of the festival. What a great day! Weather was brilliant and we saw some great acts. Particularly noteworthy were The Christians and McFly on the main stage and Jaguar Jones on the second stage. Bring on Day Two!

Chester Rocks!

We're in Chester for the weekend. It's the Chester Rocks Festival! Here's AB eyeing up the acts on the bill...