CONTINENTAL ADAPTOR - THE NEW LP AVAILABLE NOW ON VINYL & CD
At last, it is here... to order a copy e-mail us now at zenhussies@hotmail.com stating your preferred format and quantity of copies. CDs are £10 plus freight, 12" vinyl is £12 plus freight...paypal link coming soon...
LIVE IN DUBLIN!
Catch us live at the Dublin Maritime Festival this weekend of 31st May and 1st June...
VIVA L'ESPANA AND 100 CLUB
EP LAUNCH
We can at last confirm that on Tuesday 20th May, we will be officially launching our all new stomping Continental Adaptor EP at The 100 Club in London. This is your chance to grab a copy before anyone else, unless you fancy a trip to Rocket Festival the weekend prior where we will also be plying our wares on an unsuspecting Spanish audience... Tickets for the 100 club can be obtained from Alien Jazz Party whom we are most proud & thankful to to be returning to this hallowed stage...
A DOUBLE BILL OF SUPERIOR STOMP LIVE AT THE FIDDLERS!
The Zen Hussies play live at Fiddlers Club in Bedminster this Friday 7th March with support from ace klezmer dub pop tarts Yup-Knuckle & The Baskets!
Djs Peter Sundae, Ben Zen & Jive-By will keep you swinging inbetween times...see the gigs page for more info
HUSSIES HELP
HEAL HEARTS IN VALENTINE LOVE-A-THON
Yes O resonant readers of this enamourous epistle...the keen eyed and eared amongst you may have noticed that 2008 has not only brought in the the dawning of The Age Of Aquarius but also a change in direction both spiritually and musically for the West Countrys' Most Exclusive Drinking Club'.
A new year spent sharing 'epiphanies' with the famed Monks of Buckfast Abbey, has seen our 'Boundary Decimating,
Skanktastic Combo' develop a taste for all things esoteric, and we are indeed now officially an Easy Listening, Healing and Tropical Swing outfit, ready and willing to address all your affairs of the heart...
and what better place to do this than at the wonderful
Hoochie Coochie Burlesque
Cabaret this coming Valentines' Night (Thursday 14th Feb) at the all new Jesters' Comedy Club in the old Magic Box in Bristol?
The ever voluptuous Miss Keda Breeze and our old friend Devlyn Sinclair OBE will host a sensational array of perfumances from Fancy Chance, Miss Betty Bruiser, Cirque Iddylic and of course yours truly...let's hope that squirty bint in 'The Zen Hussies Ruined My Life' film on youtube shows up!
Tickets SOLD OUT
2008 - IS THIS THE YEAR THAT 'JAZZ' BECOMES THE NEW ROCK AND ROLL?
We very much doubt it cats, but we had to write something new here now that the silly season is over and the last of the brussel sprouts and advocat have been consumed...if you are missing the festivities already, fear not, it won't be long before spring is upon us and the Zen Blunderbus splutters into a venue near you...
THE ZEN HUSSIES... XMAS COMES BUT EVERY DAY!
Yes beloved Hussophiles we have new tunes on myspace and just for the festive season why not go shake a turkey leg to the extra special crimbo offering that is
Midnight In Melksham
...a gift, from us to you, music lovers at this special time of year, erm, I mean day...
You will also find on our Listening Post the belting big-top boogaloo of Kecka-Rocka and curious three-legged camel ride that is The Whiplash Waltz as a sneak preview from our forthcoming new Continental Adaptor LP.
Also, the Video link on our homepage is at last working so check it out! You can also now order our Flatfoot Sharpsuit LP online via PAYPAL here (Click 'Business' then 'Shop') so Go Johnny Go Go Go Go! and get 'em while they're hot!
EUROPEAN CAPERING IN 2008
It's looking like next year is going to be delightfully continental for us Hussies, with the Zen Blunderbus rattling into many a European festy...first we head out to the
Rocket Festival in Southern Spain in May and are doing a small run of gigs elsewhere in the area around the fest, later in the summer we will be living La Dolce Vita in Italia and donning our Lederhosen in Austria and beyond...just remember chaps, they drive on the right over there...cads!
ARCHIVE ZEN PICS HERE!
Send us your confabulations to zenhussies@hotmail.com
PSYCHEDELIC JAZZ CLOWNS STORM AUSTRIA!
Well it was truly a remarkable set of gigs in the beautiful city of Linz on the banks of the Danube...your favourite goodtime swingska boogaloo revue really did whip up some whoopee on the streets and we'd like to say a big thanks to Gerda and all the other festival staff for inviting us to such a slick event! All being well, the band touch down in Stansted this avo, if we manage to wake Bunko from his snorings...
FLACCID FLATFOOT INCARCERATED FOR AWOL WEE WILLIE WINKY
It is alleged that the one they call the Jonah, was arrested sinday just gone after drinking several ciders on ice and digging trad jazz with the Celebration Jazz Band at the Horts' City Tavern...PC Nasty # 666 caught the loveable rogue relieving himself against a mature cherry tree up a side street and assured the aforesaid gentleman that a �60 fine would follow...A midnight flit to Rio was arranged and the fugitive and his wife are now enjoying the Brazillian dogging scene and plan to appear en flagrant for the forthcoming video to the Hot Potato Syncopators smash hit 'Chorus of the Hot Potato'...Phwoar! in the back of a Cherry Red Mark II Cortina!
UKULELE CABARET COMPERE HOSPITALISED IN BACKSTAGE BEERBOTTLE CONFUSION
There was much consternation recently, when in an 'emergency relief effort', Cardiff's contemptably caustic crooner, Brigadier Frederick Harold Snow emptied his old one eye into an empty bottle of Bishops' Finger, unable to control his bladder due to pre performance jitters...leaving the aforesaid vessel upon the emcees' personal minibar, Msr Devlyn Sinclair then unwittingly imbibed what he later said he had thought to be a 'somewhat tepid fermentation with a hint of ethanol' and was removed to the Infirmary where he underwent a series of altercations with the gathered vagrants, vagabonds and mendicants...fortunately tests have revealed no great harm to have been done, and that the aforementioned unfortunate swiller has since acquired a vocal timbre uncannily resemblant of Elton ('nee Reg) John, whom it is alleged, developed his own intolerable crimes against songwriting by indulging in a not dis-similar practice... The Ukulele cabaret at the Cube Microplex in Bristol was otherwise deemed to be a most singular success, with much plinking, plonking, honking and tonking.
HUSSIES DID IT LIVE AT SUNRISE!
Yes my wholly hep friends, The Zennies freaked out all the hippies on the big stage at the Sunrise Festival in Yeovil on the weekend of 19th June, them and their pals Babyhead (who caused a stage invasion! watch this space for video!) were hip to the tip on the mothership on Saturday, hustlin' a big bag of boogaloo and causing esoteric disturbance amongst the Earth Mothers and White Wizards by parking their vans in the middle of the Geomancy fields' Ley Lines...and hey! That dashingly romantic Jonah married a fridge!
A WEEKEND OF WATUTSI DANCE IN THE WILD WILD WEST COUNTRY!
Yes my hot little jiggerboos, The Zen Hussies gave you all the chance to get down & stompy this weekend in the casbah stylee cool of the Casablanca Club on Stokes Croft in Bristol...Saturday saw his unholiness Good Old Julesy perform selected swingska favourites with his sidekick Cha Cha as support for our old chums The Duckworths at Mr Wolfs' Noodle Parlour, St Stephens St, Bristol...then on Sunday 23rd April the Zens reconvened to whip up a whoopee in the inimitably intimate confines of the Star & Garter pub in Montpelier, Bristol, breaking the world record for musicians balanced precariously on an occassional formica table...
BUNKO WHISKS BRIDE TO BOGNOR IN CHERRY RED MARK II CORTINA
Yes, Bunko, went through with it! A wedding party of family, friends and hangers on spent a record 16 hours dancing to the wonderful live klezmer marathon of Glic and jump jivery of our old chums The Fridge Magnets.
A big thankyou to all the lovely peeps who did all the hard work making such lush food & those stalwart musicians for playing so long and hard! Extra big Blessings to Bunko and his dearly beloved wife... if you see a MK II ragging it round Dorset, be sure to give 'em a cheer!
SPORT
THE ZEN HUSSIES FACE OFF HAPPY MONDAY MUNTER IN LATE NIGHT 'DRUGATHON'... Apparently, certain anonymous bandmembers* have been challenging supposedly hardcore 'pop icons' to dance longer and sillier than them without any money exchanging hands.
Nice one Bez.
MORE DIRT
Forthcoming Fixtures are coming at us thick and fast!
Next up, our lovely boy of the bass Oisin Poitin takes on simpering streak of methodone piss Pete Doherty in a DMT at dawn duel.
Coming Soon to a garage forecourt near you!
Jive-talkin' Jonah and slush pumpin' Fluff Mc Duff take on the vertically challenged Gallagher Brothers in a twenty four hour bout of Monkey tennis. See you at the bookies kids.
WIN! WIN! WIN!
ENTER THIS TIGHTWAD COMPETITION!
The first ten people to e-mail the correct answer to the question below will win a fabulous Zen Hussies Goodie Bag packed with CDs, DVD, Stickers, Fanzines, Herbal Tea Bags and other junk our top tatster Bunko can't get rid of at the Boot Sale. Just tell us what is the name of the Viper's Dame? answers on a postcard please to zenhussies@hotmail.com
COMMUNAL VIPER #6 FANZINE CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED!
Snakehips Rentbook, our long suffering Addertor of that infamous Communal Viper scandal sheet is hoping some of you beatnik goons out there will send him stuff for the next edition of that scurrilous piece of attempted journalism. Our man at the desk is looking for cartoons, photos, fork-tongued features, short stories etc, basically anything to fill up those dreadful pages.
E-mail yer bits & pieces to ZHQ at the above address or post to;
The Addertor
Communal Viper Magazine
24 Kathdene Gardens, Bristol
BS7 9BN
UK
Bands are also invited to send tracks that might make their way on to the cover CD! Remember;Bribery is effective and actively encouraged.
DIARY OF A 'JAZZ' BAND
On Saturday 25th March we headed to Cardiff to help our pals Railroad Bill celebrate 20 years of skiffle, washboards and (ahem)home brew at their birthday party. What a night it was, and we sincerely hope they settled their 'musical differences' amicably.
Then the following night, on Sunday 26th, we got down to The Tube near the bottom of Park Street in Bristol to make a stomp in its cavernous depths to an attentive audience of four students and Jonah's sister, it was a great night out though and we are sure to go back again soon!
VESUVIUS CLUB CIDER DEATH HELL! The Zen Hussies & top rankin' ska monkeyboys The Scrub did it live for you in Musique Dada's new home The Vesuvius Club for a Valentine Lurve Fest on Friday 17th Feb...The house cider concocted by The Hedonist really set the dancefloor on fire...and assisted our drummer Bunko in attaining a whole new level of rhythmic syncopation...hmmm...a big thankyou to all who came and were brave enough to drink the orange love death.
ASBOLUTELY:
THE NEW HUSSIES ALBUM IS ON ITS WAY!
Yup, we know you hot diggers are all eager to hear a new set of toons from your favourite bandits of the boogaloo, and the band are rehearsing up a whole new set for their forthcoming 2nd LP, aswell as laying down some of your faves that couldn't fit on the Flatfoot Sharpsuit LP...expected release date May 2006 so watch this space for preview MP3s!
RECORD DEAL IMMINENT?
Oooh! The gossip going round the speakeasys is that them Zens are on the brink of signing a deal to bring their music to the masses, we at HQ neither deny or admit this to be true...but Jonah has been approached by several men in grey suits which makes a change from the men in white coats normally hot on his trail!
BUNKO TIES THE KNOT!
Wow! That dapper gent of the flam Bunko, our beloved drumster is getting hitched to his long suffering lady...we won't tell you the date or venue as we don't want any Heat, if you know what I mean, But all at ZHQ wish 'em the best of luck and a long & fruitful relationship...Aye Up the Bonnie Prince! (nudge, nudge)
LEAD ZEN HUSTLER
FLEES TO BRISTLE
WITH SUITCASE
FULL O' BOOGIE! Ahh...so the rumours were true...that flatfootin' Zen man Jonah has finally burnt all the bedsits in Bath and is moving to the grungier climes of Montpelier, with barely a case of absinthe and a clutch of toons at his mercy...destined to annoy and yea! annoint its denizens with peculiar rhymes and 13 and a half bar jive talk...a tale of two cities? This is sure to result in typical Dickensian tragedy and slight discombobulation at Broadmead bus station. Watch this space.
ZEN HUSSIES
SMASH BAR
IN DRUNKEN
THEATRE
'JAZZ ORGY'. Yes dears, the 2nd annual Jazz Jamboree at our beloved Rondo Theatre went orf with a alcohol sodden yuletide bang. After holding the bar take record (�590) for an ENTIRE YEAR, we successfully obliterated it by raking a whopping �840 into the Rondo coffers. A big thank you to such a splendidly lush audience from the West's most exclusive drinking club, The Zen Hussies, we hope to see y'all again next year...
ZEN HUSSY
CNUTS HOLD
BACK THE TIDE! Amazingly, our reputation as a girt live act has led some to believe we are capable of supernatural feats, and we were called into doing a King Cnut Groove thing on the Thames Barrier on Tuesday Jan 10th to stop the old smoke from being flooded due to global warming...we did enjoy some lovely gourmet nosh courtesey of the chaps at the Admirable Crichton and have indeed developed a penchant for devilled bangers! ...Check out all our upcoming live gigs via the trumpet icon for more info and watch this space to keep up with all our movements week to week.
GATSBY SNAFFLED IN CRUSTY BAR
ROOM CONFUSION!
Once again, another of Jonah's hats has been whipped orf his noggin by some terrible git...this time it was his favourite brown tweed gatsby, last seen in The Couer De Lion Pub, Bath, before being made orf with by some idle unwashed feck who was later spotted necking White Lightning outside the Abbey. This hat is labelled 'Jonah Flatfoot' inside, and our man at the mike is offering a pint of gin as reward to any clever bastard who manages to return it! Send through post to ZHQ!
* Jonah and Jack...behave yourselves...
Hey you! Have you really read all the way to the bottom of this jive o' bilge pump baloney? Then my distinctly non-rightangular friend, you gone won yerself a prize! Text the word Matutsi! to Jonah on 07939 057809 with your details for a zen goodybag, and you and a pal will be put on the guestlist for a forthcoming gig with your favourite swinging hubcap troubadours! (Them Zen Hussies!) and given the full VIPer treatment...but hurry...only the first few to do so will win! So get a shake on cats!
P/S...a big huzzah to Hugo Landau for writing all the code and making this site work at long last!
At last, it is here... to order a copy e-mail us now at zenhussies@hotmail.com stating your preferred format and quantity of copies. CDs are £10 plus freight, 12" vinyl is £12 plus freight...paypal link coming soon...
LIVE IN DUBLIN!
Catch us live at the Dublin Maritime Festival this weekend of 31st May and 1st June...
VIVA L'ESPANA AND 100 CLUB
EP LAUNCH
We can at last confirm that on Tuesday 20th May, we will be officially launching our all new stomping Continental Adaptor EP at The 100 Club in London. This is your chance to grab a copy before anyone else, unless you fancy a trip to Rocket Festival the weekend prior where we will also be plying our wares on an unsuspecting Spanish audience... Tickets for the 100 club can be obtained from Alien Jazz Party whom we are most proud & thankful to to be returning to this hallowed stage...
A DOUBLE BILL OF SUPERIOR STOMP LIVE AT THE FIDDLERS!
The Zen Hussies play live at Fiddlers Club in Bedminster this Friday 7th March with support from ace klezmer dub pop tarts Yup-Knuckle & The Baskets!
Djs Peter Sundae, Ben Zen & Jive-By will keep you swinging inbetween times...see the gigs page for more info
HUSSIES HELP
HEAL HEARTS IN VALENTINE LOVE-A-THON
Yes O resonant readers of this enamourous epistle...the keen eyed and eared amongst you may have noticed that 2008 has not only brought in the the dawning of The Age Of Aquarius but also a change in direction both spiritually and musically for the West Countrys' Most Exclusive Drinking Club'.
A new year spent sharing 'epiphanies' with the famed Monks of Buckfast Abbey, has seen our 'Boundary Decimating,
Skanktastic Combo' develop a taste for all things esoteric, and we are indeed now officially an Easy Listening, Healing and Tropical Swing outfit, ready and willing to address all your affairs of the heart...
and what better place to do this than at the wonderful
Hoochie Coochie Burlesque
Cabaret this coming Valentines' Night (Thursday 14th Feb) at the all new Jesters' Comedy Club in the old Magic Box in Bristol?
The ever voluptuous Miss Keda Breeze and our old friend Devlyn Sinclair OBE will host a sensational array of perfumances from Fancy Chance, Miss Betty Bruiser, Cirque Iddylic and of course yours truly...let's hope that squirty bint in 'The Zen Hussies Ruined My Life' film on youtube shows up!
Tickets SOLD OUT
2008 - IS THIS THE YEAR THAT 'JAZZ' BECOMES THE NEW ROCK AND ROLL?
We very much doubt it cats, but we had to write something new here now that the silly season is over and the last of the brussel sprouts and advocat have been consumed...if you are missing the festivities already, fear not, it won't be long before spring is upon us and the Zen Blunderbus splutters into a venue near you...
THE ZEN HUSSIES... XMAS COMES BUT EVERY DAY!
Yes beloved Hussophiles we have new tunes on myspace and just for the festive season why not go shake a turkey leg to the extra special crimbo offering that is
Midnight In Melksham
...a gift, from us to you, music lovers at this special time of year, erm, I mean day...
You will also find on our Listening Post the belting big-top boogaloo of Kecka-Rocka and curious three-legged camel ride that is The Whiplash Waltz as a sneak preview from our forthcoming new Continental Adaptor LP.
Also, the Video link on our homepage is at last working so check it out! You can also now order our Flatfoot Sharpsuit LP online via PAYPAL here (Click 'Business' then 'Shop') so Go Johnny Go Go Go Go! and get 'em while they're hot!
EUROPEAN CAPERING IN 2008
It's looking like next year is going to be delightfully continental for us Hussies, with the Zen Blunderbus rattling into many a European festy...first we head out to the
Rocket Festival in Southern Spain in May and are doing a small run of gigs elsewhere in the area around the fest, later in the summer we will be living La Dolce Vita in Italia and donning our Lederhosen in Austria and beyond...just remember chaps, they drive on the right over there...cads!
ARCHIVE ZEN PICS HERE!
Send us your confabulations to zenhussies@hotmail.com
PSYCHEDELIC JAZZ CLOWNS STORM AUSTRIA!
Well it was truly a remarkable set of gigs in the beautiful city of Linz on the banks of the Danube...your favourite goodtime swingska boogaloo revue really did whip up some whoopee on the streets and we'd like to say a big thanks to Gerda and all the other festival staff for inviting us to such a slick event! All being well, the band touch down in Stansted this avo, if we manage to wake Bunko from his snorings...
FLACCID FLATFOOT INCARCERATED FOR AWOL WEE WILLIE WINKYIt is alleged that the one they call the Jonah, was arrested sinday just gone after drinking several ciders on ice and digging trad jazz with the Celebration Jazz Band at the Horts' City Tavern...PC Nasty # 666 caught the loveable rogue relieving himself against a mature cherry tree up a side street and assured the aforesaid gentleman that a �60 fine would follow...A midnight flit to Rio was arranged and the fugitive and his wife are now enjoying the Brazillian dogging scene and plan to appear en flagrant for the forthcoming video to the Hot Potato Syncopators smash hit 'Chorus of the Hot Potato'...Phwoar! in the back of a Cherry Red Mark II Cortina!
UKULELE CABARET COMPERE HOSPITALISED IN BACKSTAGE BEERBOTTLE CONFUSION
There was much consternation recently, when in an 'emergency relief effort', Cardiff's contemptably caustic crooner, Brigadier Frederick Harold Snow emptied his old one eye into an empty bottle of Bishops' Finger, unable to control his bladder due to pre performance jitters...leaving the aforesaid vessel upon the emcees' personal minibar, Msr Devlyn Sinclair then unwittingly imbibed what he later said he had thought to be a 'somewhat tepid fermentation with a hint of ethanol' and was removed to the Infirmary where he underwent a series of altercations with the gathered vagrants, vagabonds and mendicants...fortunately tests have revealed no great harm to have been done, and that the aforementioned unfortunate swiller has since acquired a vocal timbre uncannily resemblant of Elton ('nee Reg) John, whom it is alleged, developed his own intolerable crimes against songwriting by indulging in a not dis-similar practice... The Ukulele cabaret at the Cube Microplex in Bristol was otherwise deemed to be a most singular success, with much plinking, plonking, honking and tonking.
HUSSIES DID IT LIVE AT SUNRISE!
Yes my wholly hep friends, The Zennies freaked out all the hippies on the big stage at the Sunrise Festival in Yeovil on the weekend of 19th June, them and their pals Babyhead (who caused a stage invasion! watch this space for video!) were hip to the tip on the mothership on Saturday, hustlin' a big bag of boogaloo and causing esoteric disturbance amongst the Earth Mothers and White Wizards by parking their vans in the middle of the Geomancy fields' Ley Lines...and hey! That dashingly romantic Jonah married a fridge!
A WEEKEND OF WATUTSI DANCE IN THE WILD WILD WEST COUNTRY!
Yes my hot little jiggerboos, The Zen Hussies gave you all the chance to get down & stompy this weekend in the casbah stylee cool of the Casablanca Club on Stokes Croft in Bristol...Saturday saw his unholiness Good Old Julesy perform selected swingska favourites with his sidekick Cha Cha as support for our old chums The Duckworths at Mr Wolfs' Noodle Parlour, St Stephens St, Bristol...then on Sunday 23rd April the Zens reconvened to whip up a whoopee in the inimitably intimate confines of the Star & Garter pub in Montpelier, Bristol, breaking the world record for musicians balanced precariously on an occassional formica table...
BUNKO WHISKS BRIDE TO BOGNOR IN CHERRY RED MARK II CORTINA
Yes, Bunko, went through with it! A wedding party of family, friends and hangers on spent a record 16 hours dancing to the wonderful live klezmer marathon of Glic and jump jivery of our old chums The Fridge Magnets.
A big thankyou to all the lovely peeps who did all the hard work making such lush food & those stalwart musicians for playing so long and hard! Extra big Blessings to Bunko and his dearly beloved wife... if you see a MK II ragging it round Dorset, be sure to give 'em a cheer!
SPORT
THE ZEN HUSSIES FACE OFF HAPPY MONDAY MUNTER IN LATE NIGHT 'DRUGATHON'... Apparently, certain anonymous bandmembers* have been challenging supposedly hardcore 'pop icons' to dance longer and sillier than them without any money exchanging hands.
Nice one Bez.
MORE DIRT
Forthcoming Fixtures are coming at us thick and fast!
Next up, our lovely boy of the bass Oisin Poitin takes on simpering streak of methodone piss Pete Doherty in a DMT at dawn duel.
Coming Soon to a garage forecourt near you!
Jive-talkin' Jonah and slush pumpin' Fluff Mc Duff take on the vertically challenged Gallagher Brothers in a twenty four hour bout of Monkey tennis. See you at the bookies kids.
WIN! WIN! WIN!
ENTER THIS TIGHTWAD COMPETITION!
The first ten people to e-mail the correct answer to the question below will win a fabulous Zen Hussies Goodie Bag packed with CDs, DVD, Stickers, Fanzines, Herbal Tea Bags and other junk our top tatster Bunko can't get rid of at the Boot Sale. Just tell us what is the name of the Viper's Dame? answers on a postcard please to zenhussies@hotmail.com
COMMUNAL VIPER #6 FANZINE CONTRIBUTIONS WANTED!
Snakehips Rentbook, our long suffering Addertor of that infamous Communal Viper scandal sheet is hoping some of you beatnik goons out there will send him stuff for the next edition of that scurrilous piece of attempted journalism. Our man at the desk is looking for cartoons, photos, fork-tongued features, short stories etc, basically anything to fill up those dreadful pages.
E-mail yer bits & pieces to ZHQ at the above address or post to;
The Addertor
Communal Viper Magazine
24 Kathdene Gardens, Bristol
BS7 9BN
UK
Bands are also invited to send tracks that might make their way on to the cover CD! Remember;Bribery is effective and actively encouraged.
DIARY OF A 'JAZZ' BAND
On Saturday 25th March we headed to Cardiff to help our pals Railroad Bill celebrate 20 years of skiffle, washboards and (ahem)home brew at their birthday party. What a night it was, and we sincerely hope they settled their 'musical differences' amicably.
Then the following night, on Sunday 26th, we got down to The Tube near the bottom of Park Street in Bristol to make a stomp in its cavernous depths to an attentive audience of four students and Jonah's sister, it was a great night out though and we are sure to go back again soon!
VESUVIUS CLUB CIDER DEATH HELL! The Zen Hussies & top rankin' ska monkeyboys The Scrub did it live for you in Musique Dada's new home The Vesuvius Club for a Valentine Lurve Fest on Friday 17th Feb...The house cider concocted by The Hedonist really set the dancefloor on fire...and assisted our drummer Bunko in attaining a whole new level of rhythmic syncopation...hmmm...a big thankyou to all who came and were brave enough to drink the orange love death.
ASBOLUTELY:
THE NEW HUSSIES ALBUM IS ON ITS WAY!
Yup, we know you hot diggers are all eager to hear a new set of toons from your favourite bandits of the boogaloo, and the band are rehearsing up a whole new set for their forthcoming 2nd LP, aswell as laying down some of your faves that couldn't fit on the Flatfoot Sharpsuit LP...expected release date May 2006 so watch this space for preview MP3s!
RECORD DEAL IMMINENT?
Oooh! The gossip going round the speakeasys is that them Zens are on the brink of signing a deal to bring their music to the masses, we at HQ neither deny or admit this to be true...but Jonah has been approached by several men in grey suits which makes a change from the men in white coats normally hot on his trail!
BUNKO TIES THE KNOT!
Wow! That dapper gent of the flam Bunko, our beloved drumster is getting hitched to his long suffering lady...we won't tell you the date or venue as we don't want any Heat, if you know what I mean, But all at ZHQ wish 'em the best of luck and a long & fruitful relationship...Aye Up the Bonnie Prince! (nudge, nudge)
LEAD ZEN HUSTLER
FLEES TO BRISTLE
WITH SUITCASE
FULL O' BOOGIE! Ahh...so the rumours were true...that flatfootin' Zen man Jonah has finally burnt all the bedsits in Bath and is moving to the grungier climes of Montpelier, with barely a case of absinthe and a clutch of toons at his mercy...destined to annoy and yea! annoint its denizens with peculiar rhymes and 13 and a half bar jive talk...a tale of two cities? This is sure to result in typical Dickensian tragedy and slight discombobulation at Broadmead bus station. Watch this space.
ZEN HUSSIES
SMASH BAR
IN DRUNKEN
THEATRE
'JAZZ ORGY'. Yes dears, the 2nd annual Jazz Jamboree at our beloved Rondo Theatre went orf with a alcohol sodden yuletide bang. After holding the bar take record (�590) for an ENTIRE YEAR, we successfully obliterated it by raking a whopping �840 into the Rondo coffers. A big thank you to such a splendidly lush audience from the West's most exclusive drinking club, The Zen Hussies, we hope to see y'all again next year...
ZEN HUSSY
CNUTS HOLD
BACK THE TIDE! Amazingly, our reputation as a girt live act has led some to believe we are capable of supernatural feats, and we were called into doing a King Cnut Groove thing on the Thames Barrier on Tuesday Jan 10th to stop the old smoke from being flooded due to global warming...we did enjoy some lovely gourmet nosh courtesey of the chaps at the Admirable Crichton and have indeed developed a penchant for devilled bangers! ...Check out all our upcoming live gigs via the trumpet icon for more info and watch this space to keep up with all our movements week to week.
GATSBY SNAFFLED IN CRUSTY BAR
ROOM CONFUSION!
Once again, another of Jonah's hats has been whipped orf his noggin by some terrible git...this time it was his favourite brown tweed gatsby, last seen in The Couer De Lion Pub, Bath, before being made orf with by some idle unwashed feck who was later spotted necking White Lightning outside the Abbey. This hat is labelled 'Jonah Flatfoot' inside, and our man at the mike is offering a pint of gin as reward to any clever bastard who manages to return it! Send through post to ZHQ!
* Jonah and Jack...behave yourselves...
Hey you! Have you really read all the way to the bottom of this jive o' bilge pump baloney? Then my distinctly non-rightangular friend, you gone won yerself a prize! Text the word Matutsi! to Jonah on 07939 057809 with your details for a zen goodybag, and you and a pal will be put on the guestlist for a forthcoming gig with your favourite swinging hubcap troubadours! (Them Zen Hussies!) and given the full VIPer treatment...but hurry...only the first few to do so will win! So get a shake on cats!
P/S...a big huzzah to Hugo Landau for writing all the code and making this site work at long last!
