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Newsflash...

.......................MOOK TAKEN OVER BY MULTINATIONAL STOP........................
...........HOARDS OF MOOK FANS WORRIED ABOUT CONSEQUENCES OF TAKEOVER STOP..........
.....................ALL-NIGHT PROTEST OUTSIDE ADY'S HOUSE STOP.....................
................GUITARIST AVOIDS CONFRONTATION BY PLAYING X-BOX STOP................
......................ADY'S MUM NOT AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT STOP......................
.......LOYAL SUPPORTERS URGED TO AIR THEIR GRIEVANCES AT www.beelzebozo.co.uk ......

 

Forthcoming gigs 2006
Saturday Week
About 9-ish		 Just around the corner from Sam's house
(don't make too much noise on your way home)
Hog roast and disco after the gig.
Bring your own baps.
   
Previous Triumphs
Tuenday the 12th of Junly
1st Annual Mookfest, Wallingford.
With support from Grandmaster Flash and Frank Sidebottom.
Wednesday 16th March
2005 		Zodiac, Cowley Rd Oxford

"Come on Oxford, show us what you've got!" says Mike.
Downstairs at the Zodiac, Oxford reply with an appreciative shout of: "Get on with it!"
Mike, being upstairs and clearly in the wrong part of the venue, is hastily retrieved by Sam, but then he makes up for his earlier blunder by singing a blinder - that's right, a Mook Klassik Kover in the form of Stevie Wonder's "Master Blaster", mastered, and indeed, blasting to end the show.
Mike does, however spoil things slightly by leaving the audience with a crap joke about how Stevie Wonder probably likes his doughnuts... "wiv jammin."

Friday 4th February
2005

Fez Club, Reading
Reading had always been a favourite for gigs as there always seems to be a huge crowd wherever they went but no-one was more surprised than Mook when the underground labarynth that is the Fez club became overrun with Dutch tourists all needing a large serving of metal pie. Mook were, of course, happy to oblige and dished out great steaming portions of chunky chugging that got the Netherlanders rocking on back to the flatlands.
Wednesday 19th January
2005 		Bullingdon Arms, Cowley Rd Oxford
Long time since Mook have been in the Bully (except to buy beer) but the place hasn't changed too much from the venue they've come to love. A massive sound through the PA tonight ensures an audience who goes home hot, seaty and sated, having tasted the monsterous riffs that Mook have become so adept at dishing out. Nice to see Rooster-Boy out again, still too drunk to see his own feet, he managed to almost destroy the stage with a badly aimed dance move, but luckily the muscle-bound doorman saves the day before teatime.
Friday 7th January
2005 		Wheatsheaf, Oxford

Back to the Wheatsheaf and Mook pull off yet another incredibly tight performance, possibly influenced by the fact that the place is rammed full of appreciative gig-goers, who seem to love everything that the Mook boys do tonight. Ady proves why he's becoming known as "the little man with the big sound" as he rips the roof off the venue with his riffs. Truly a heart in mouth moment is when Mike holds the audience in the palm of his hand during the encore, and fails to get arrested for abusive behaviour. Sam was later heard to describe the night as "Good".
Sunday 19th December
Zodiac, Cowley Rd Oxford
Mook show off some brand new material from their forthcoming E.P. recording provisionally entitled "The Spasmodeacon Sessions". Oh yes, one song actually completed in under six months. Lordy, they have been busy.
New material seems to please punters though and Mook put in one of their tightest performances for some time, then impress some young girls in the audience with their autograph signing skills... that's right folks, Mook are all capable of writing their own names, some even use joined up letters - Wow, what a catch, get 'em while they're hot, come on you know you love it, apples and pairs, the water's lovely, you don't get many of them for a pound, season's greetings, sale now on.
Monday 27th September
Zodiac, Cowley Rd Oxford
I have been accused of not updating the site often enough. A charge that I appear to be at least partly guilty of. Ok, wholly guilty would be slightly more accurate. Much more accurate.
Anyway, the way I see it, if you need to see this site to find out how good Mook's gigs have been then you're just not a committed enough follower of "The Mook" and deserve to believe that every gig you've missed was THE musical event of the century. As this one was. Oh, and you missed it? Shame on you. Better get your arse over to the next one then, eh?
Friday 6th August Zodiac, Cowley Rd Oxford
Ah, the long awaited Oxford Music CD launch gig thing. For those who don't know about this, its a CD with music on it featuring Oxford, or something, I dunno. Well, its out there now and we're on it with our intriguingly titled Nun's Nasty offering. Not sure what's meant by that. Nun's are usually quite nice, I always thought. Gig was ok. *shrugs and looks at shoes*
Friday 2nd July The Elm Tree, Cowley Rd,
Oxford
Nice to see the Elm Tree re-opened as a live music venue, it's been a while since we've played this far down the Cowley Road. Also looking forward to seeing OutOfInto again, and expectantly anticipating the arrival of The Italian Elvis (can only be good.)
Disappointed then, to hear that OutOfInto's drummer forgot he was on holiday so would not be able to make the gig. (That may not be the full story, in fact almost certainly isn't) Ah well, Mook aren't the most reliable when it comes to knowing when their holidays start (sorry, Twizz!) So no problem, two bands it is then, just set up, speak to the PA guy and - hang on, no PA guy - hang on, no PA. OK. Set up anyway and our optimism is rewarded by the sound crew arriving, stressed and sweaty, 45mins later with the unwelcome news that, no, The Italian Elvis would not be entering the building. "Smusso credo che la nostra fortuna difficile, il curse di Mook certamente sta funzionando stasera", we all said.
Two random blokes did turn up and play some a) Instrumental guitar oddness, and b) strumalong strangeness as a warm up. Fair play to these guys for getting up there and doing something, but it didn't really get the crowd sweaty and eager for some Mook Metal Mayhem tm and was hardly what people were expecting as a replacement for the Italian King of Rock 'n' Roll. Never mind, we went on to rock despite the earlier mishaps and were rewarded by a great response from the assembled onlookers, cheers if you were there, jeers if you were supposed to be...
"Uh huh, grazie molto"
Tuesday 15th of June
Emergenza Battle of the Bands

The Zodiac,
Cowley Rd, Oxford

We wuz robbed..
Thanks for coming to see us last night, hope you both enjoyed it. All of Mook enjoyed the gig but unfortunately we didn't get enough votes to go through to the next round. I think we need more friends...also my mum didn't come (she was ill - get well soon ma)
In The Flesh did bring their mums and buddies and got through to the next round with 120ish votes, Phyal got second place with something like 70 votes (and have to go to another heat in Portsmouth to try and get into the finals in London.)
Mook got less votes than either of them and got to go home.
The biggest disappointment of the whole thing was having to wait until 1am to find that we were failures (but at least we weren't the last band on, as many of the audience had buggered off home by then and most who were left were in the other bands...
Still, we've played upstairs at the Zodiac where many of our heroes have played and we've sat in the backstage area where they've sat, skinned up and, no doubt, used the mirror stuck to the top of the table for purposes other than checking the state of their hair. It did smell a bit back there though..
Anyway details should be appearing here soon, to see exactly where we came (as I don't really know myself yet.) Good luck to the winners, your round I believe (mine's a pint).
?th June Newly re-opened Elm Tree, Cowley Road, Oxford
No, that didn't happen...
Monday ?th or ?st May
Rockit! in the Crypt club, The Cellar, Oxford
ahem, no, nor this.. we really must get more organised. Anyone got instructions for a calendar and a phone, cos we all seem to have a problem operating them both at once..
Sunday 11th April
Emergenza Battle of the Bands
The Zodiac, Oxford

One night, six bands, one winner, Mook in third place scraped through by the skin of our teeth. Yes, that's right, we are through to the next round of the battle of the bands competition.
Mook would like to thank their manager Arsen Nobrott, The Kids, God, little baby Jesus, Krusty the Clown, the King of Spain, George W, that bloke who tap dances for money in Oxford, Grandmaster Flash and Dave 'Kid' Jenson.
Watch this space for details of the next round of the Emergenza battle of the bands competition. To be held somewhere in Oxford (my guess is the Zodiac again)

(Sam was going to write something extremely offensive about one of the other bands on the bill tonight but I wouldn't let him. He thought they were an abomination that irreversibly harmed the very fabric of music and should be stopped at any cost.
 I said be quiet, they're bigger than us and they've got more mates.)

Friday 26th March
2004
Wheatsheaf, Oxford
 
with FIREBRAND and SCHINDLER(N/A)
Nice one. The Wheatsheaf's a great venue. Good sound, good atmosphere (small, dark and sweaty) and we always seem to have a good gig whenever we play there. Thanks as ever to Joal for his accurate reproduction of the sound of monster metal. Firebrand were excellent too, Cheers to them for having us support. Shame the omnipotent Schindler didn't manage to make it to the gig as we all love them oh yes. It seems they're supporting someone shite this week and don't have the time to waste with us. Ah well.
Sadly, violence once again follows us around like an over-eager sales assistant, as someone tries to pick a fight with Lee on the door over some cash-related incident (ok, so it was hardly a riot, more like a small raised-voiced discussion). Strangely I don't even think it was his money the bloke was arguing over. Possibly suggesting an easier way of giving change. "Nah, mate, you don't want to do that, listen, much easier than that, give him the tenner back, get six quid off that bloke there, he gives you his two quid, plus the fiver this other matey has, then if he gives you another quid, this first bloke gives four pound fifty to you, you've got eighteen fifty, right? Right, then you give the first bloke eleven of that, then he gives the other bloke three..."
Saturday 13th March
CANCELLED
The Full Moon, Bristol
CANCELLED
with Bristol Breakout and We're Not Motorhead (Who charged the venue so much cash they decided to cancel - hence no gig. Cheers guys - you're not Motorhead, we're not playing)
Thursday 22nd Jan
2004
Bar Oz, Reading
Oh, dear. Take one big-headed dull-as-ditchwater-mandolin-playing, acoustic guitar-wielding, three-quarters-of-an-hour-soundcheck taking pile of old shit, stir in a slightly more interesting but a lot less instrumentally competent jangly guitar band, add Mook, then finish off with some pointless Indie guitar wank and what have you got? Mook going home pissed off, that's what. Makes you wonder why we even bothered sending the promoter a CD really, doesn't it?

Monday 8th Dec
9.30pm

Rockit! in the Crypt club, The Cellar, Oxford
 
with DROPOUT
Good gig. No blown up amps, broken strings, colds, flu, stomach upsets or similar inconveniences. Not only that, but an audience turned up too!
Dropout were excellent and attracted a good crowd, who stayed to watch Mook - even without us locking the doors to prevent their escape.
Mook had three new tracks to air since the last gig at the Cellar and they went down very well - always reassuring! The only downer occurred when on arriving home, Chas discovered that he'd left his bass distortion generator behind (D'oh). Never fear, noise fans, the dopey bassman found the offending item exactly where he left it the following night in the Cellar. As a punishment Chas has been locked in the back of the van with no supper to think about what he's done.
Mon 27th Oct
(finally confirmed on Sunday 26th!!)
Rockit! in the Crypt club, The Cellar, Oxford
 
with SHADOW MACHINE
Apologies to the many people I've spoken to who didn't think this gig was actually going ahead, but we got notification a little late to let you all know. Still, thanks to those who did make it along, (unfortunately Ady wasn't one of them - get well soon) I hope a good night was had by all! I really liked Shadow Machine and was a little disappointed their set ended when it did, but apparently they've got a new bassist and they played all the songs he knew. I didn't think bassists actually learnt songs, I thought they just made it up as they went along...
One of our mates got a bit of hassle from some rowdy young tykes about the size of his crash helmet (or something), which marred events slightly. I'll just say now that you got off lightly, whoever you are. Our mate J might look fat, bald and old, but I'll tell you now, I'm not sure how to end this sentence.
Sat 20th Sept
Corn Exchange,
Wallingford
Mook were a bit scared by the prospect of playing this one (well, I was anyway-mostly because I didn't think we would sit well with the other acts on the bill (mostly blues bands)).
In reality the night was a real success. A full house (one of our largest) and a great reaction from the 'punters' ensured that our after gig piss-up was for once a celebratory occasion instead of an excuse to drown our sorrows!
Fri 11th July
Chalgrove Live Music Festival,
Chalgrove, nr Oxford
Mook let loose in a pub car park to take the masses by storm (and I mean masses, why, there must have been 15 or 20 people there, if not more!)
Not quite knowing what to expect, we put together a set heavy with covers (just to be on the safe side) and prove that if it all goes wrong we could always make a career playing at the weddings of ageing rockers.
(How about it Mick?)
Thurs 19th June
The Point at The Zodiac, Oxford
with SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT
and COBALT 60
Another gig at the Point. We love the point, but it don't love us.
Cobalt 60 have been on holiday for a while and have come back tighter, meaner and with some new material (well, I didn't recognise it - but I am usually pissed at gigs).
Suitable Case For Treatment were excellent, (think Mr Bungle featuring the devil himself on vocals singing through a mile long sewer after smoking roll-ups made from old tyres - fucking brilliant).
Mook decide to follow those two superb performances by playing a couple of songs and blowing up an amp. Thanks to John from Cobalt for lending his amp to Ady so we could continue. It seems that three gigs is the most we can expect from Ady's amps before they expire. (What the hell does he do to them? - answers to mail@mookmetal.co.uk)
Mon 12th May
Fez Club, Reading
An odd venue, a bit like playing in a rabbit warren in Morocco, but ultimately good. Sam tried to hide from the audience (and the band) during the whole gig, which makes a change from the audience trying to hide from Mook (as usually happens). Mike lends amps to members of all the other bands, and promises to get Sam and Chas to fix the sound guy's central heating while Andy re-wires the loft.
Sun 11th May
Bar Oz, Reading

Cancelled. All prepaid tickets will be honoured at the next gig.
(Sorry, no refunds)
Tues 22nd April
Purple Turtle, Reading
 
with PHYAL
Wow, a good gig, with people and everything! (Although Ady tried his best to lose the rest of Mook on the way to the venue with an ill-conceived overtaking manoeuvre - bloody BMW drivers...) Left the Turtle completely deaf, and hoarse from screaming. We couldn't hear a bloody thing we were doing all the way through the set, but apparently it sounded ok. More by luck than judgment possibly...
Thurs 10th April 2003
The Bullingdon, Oxford
 
with THE BARFLIES
Thanks to fat Catweazle for making a drunken appearance and spending almost the entire gig trying to get himself thrown out (much to the amusement of the band and assembled masses) Also respect due to the Dr Zoidberg Dancers who helped make the evening an extravaganza of sound and motions. I thank you. Next time we plan to stitch the severed heads together to form one large giant all seeing entity. We've kept them fresh (I think you know how)

Thur 3rd April 2003

Swan, Wantage
with HEADCOUNT
Another outstanding success as Mook and Headcount prove to be too much for Wantage's local music fans and all but two of them decide to stay in bed with their sisters. Thank god the Headcount boys brought their wives/girlfriends/significant others with them to throw things and take the piss. DVD/Video available soon so that you can relive the magic from the comfort of your own home (as Wantage did that night)

 

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