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Boblogathon: A Dirty Garage Rock All-Dayer with Bob Log III
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Boblogathon: A Dirty Garage Rock All-Dayer with Bob Log III

11 March 2023 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

£12 – £13
The Night Owl presents the one-man crown prince of punk-blues; US slide-guitarist BOB LOG III, live in Birmingham.
Tickets 🎟️ http://bit.ly/3XAJN67
💰 12/£13 adv.
EARLY BIRD SOLD OUT!
Plus support from
Black Mekon
Temple St Resistance
You Dirty Blue
The Devil & St Joseph
The Bitter Lemons
+ club night after with DJs Alex Rose, Carlton (Coldrice) Joel (Killerwave) & The Devil & St Joseph
£10 early birds, £13 advance / £15 on the door.
Nothing can stop the Bob Log guitar party juggernaut!
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“And then there’s this guy named Bob Log, you ever heard of him? He’s this little kid — nobody ever knows how old he is — wears a motorcycle helmet and he has a microphone inside of it and he puts the glass over the front so you can’t see his face, and plays slide guitar. It’s just the loudest, strangest stuff you’ve ever heard. You don’t understand one word he’s saying. I like people who glue macaroni on to a piece of cardboard and paint it gold. That’s what I aspire to basically” – Tom Waits
Bob Log III, Fat Possum recording artist and one man band crown prince of punk blues from Tuscon, Arizona. Witnessing Bob Log live is an unmissable and unforgettable experience. By rights he should be a punk blues stadium super star. He takes to the stage with his face masked in a crash helmet with a black visor and a telephone wired in it for a mic and wearing a blue jump suit. Bob then unleashes a torrent of hardcore Mississippi Delta blues, hip hop beats and punk rock. The crash helmet telephone distorts the vocals and his hands, arms, legs and feet become a blur of jump suit clad limbs as he plays slide, triggers drum machines and drums with his feet simultaneously.
Bob Log’s identity and history is shrouded in mystery and rumour, probably helped by his stage get up and also when his record company Fat Possum put out an early press release claiming Log had a monkey’s paw grafted on to his wrist after a boating accident as a child. Here’s an excerpt…..”When Bob Log III was a child, he lost his left hand in a boating accident. It was soon replaced with a monkey paw, and a new guitar style was born. ‘It’s my own personal style, see,’ Log says, ‘the paw moves much quicker than a normal hand, so my real hand has to flop around a lot to compensate.'” When asked to explain Fat Possum’s insistence that his right hand is a monkey’s paw, Log replied to an interviewer that, “My hand is just hairy. Very, very hairy. It is NOT a PAW. Fat Possum was drunk.” Log further clarified the monkey paw myth in an interview with Bizarre Magazine: “I’ve got all my limbs. It’s just that when I’m playing my guitar my hand moves so fast it looks like a monkey paw, a hairy paw. My hand moves really fast. Faster than a normal human hand”
In this current world of homogenised and mass marketed music, we need true mavericks like Bob Log III more than ever.

Details

Date:
11 March 2023
Time:
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Cost:
£12 – £13
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Organiser

The Night Owl
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Venue

The Night Owl Birmingham
17-18 Lower Trinity Street
Birmingham, B9 4AG United Kingdom
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