Two Cornish rappers venture out of their depth.
This August we face the biggest challenge in our five year history together. Thanks to a combination of luck, Stephen Frost, and a curator that had run out of time; we are playing at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival! Though not strictly speaking a comedy act, you can’t help but chuckle at the thought of Passman dancing his ass off every night for a month.
You know that giant banner by Tuckingmill that says ‘Pool is the Future’? Well, the Heartlands is the very future that it’s referring to… and it’s to become the present in the very near… future. Who better to open it you might ask, than Redruth’s number one Casio Rap duo and Newton Faulkner?
Get down to this – it’s going to be well worth it. Where is it? Opposite the entrance to Camborne College. Look out for walkabout entertainers and flash choirs though…
I was going to bring one of Anne’s Pasties’ to this and enter it as my own – but I was told that would be fraud… and they’re ineligible because they’re not crimped on the side. Well, they wouldn’t have stood a chance anyway because my mother is entering this year! “And everyone’s agreed, their mothers make the best.” That’s a line from our brand new pasty song by the way. Be there for its début on Saturday at 1pm in the Mediterranean Dome… Mm… Mediterranean Pasties - they don’t do them any more at Rowe’s do they? They were great. And only £1.30 too. Bargain.
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There were a few surprised people earlier this month when our “doin’ it dreckly” T-shirts made an appearance on Cornwall, with Caroline Quentin, the ITV show that we were cut from because one of us was too naked.
We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new range of hedluv + passman teeshirts. The ‘druth teeshirt won many admirers when it first appeared in the music video to dreckly. And now you can order your very own from druth.co.uk
By the time we’re finished on New Year’s Eve we will have played 62 gigs in 2011, so you’d think we’d have a few stories to tell. Well… we have. From playing at our first 60th birthday party, only to go on to play at our first 80th birthday party, it was the year where we pushed ourselves further than ever before. One of Passman’s most epic moments was when he gave himself a black eye by literally kneeing himself in his own face during a performance of Black Hole Sun.
And I still can’t believe that this actually happened:
A long story, but basically to avoid hyperthermia me, Passman and Dave (film-maker) had to strip off our wet clothes and take refuge from a thunderstorm in a women’s toilet in Frome (they don’t have hairdryers in men’s toilets). It’s a great story actually, but we don’t have time here – maybe it’ll be made it into a movie one day.
Other highlights include seeing our first hedluv + passman tribute act, finishing our long-awaited album We Came Here Not For Gold, and playing in St Just Town Hall… NOT Village Hall. But this year’s highlight, without a shadow of a doubt, goes to the birth of my daughter Zevi – who appropriately kept us all waiting 2 weeks past her due date!
So all in all a good year. We look forward to 2012, and according to projections it’s going to be even better.
It’s been a heck of a good year, and we’d just like to thank everyone who made this possible – and as a token of our thanks we’re giving away this 14 track live album as a free download. It was recorded at Miss Peapod’s on the 19th of February by Barnaby Ray for flyingtracks, so the quality of the recording is excellent… Not sure if we can say the same thing about some of the performance though, but that’s just the hedluv + passman experience. Anyway, we think you’ll enjoy listening to this – we certainly did! Have a great Christmas x
Download: Hedluv + Passman, LIVE! 2011
