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Christmas Newletter 2024

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  Hello hello and a happy Christmas, I trust my letter finds you well - and by well I mean ensnared by vice and falling asleep on a sofa, plotting the next massive family argument. Reflection is befitting of this time of year, we are all sentimental from drink and Wallace and Gromit creating an opportune moment to look back on all the happy memories and all we have achieved. Yes there were many miserable memories and many things that went unachieved but sorrow is as fleeting as a leaf on a breeze. Shall we look back on Four Blokes's 2024? I do believe we shall... Supporting Belle Dame, 21st January 2024 The year began as it often does with January- in a cold dirty shed with only a three-wheeled radiator for warmth, Four Blokes began rehearsal for their first concert appearance of the year - opening for Belle Dame at "The Joiners". With George playing another gig the same day with One Lung.... snore... (apologies reader - I am merely drowsy from excess wine consumption and...

My Great Big Feckin’ Farm

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  Four Blokes   MY GREAT BIG FECKIN’ FARM Back in 2022, a band of teenage upstarts filed into a shed at the bottom of a backyard in Sholing to begin recording their debut album. 3 years later - after several lifetimes of joy and terror alike - it is finally ready for release. Our production team of Tiago Martins (who also plays most of the instruments on this record) and Finn Darke have lovingly scraped the rust off these relics and made them properly rocking. The 14 songs contained within will take you on a journey for the senses; musically there are overtones of punk rock but the refined pallete will pick up on notes of reggae, funk, nu-metal and even the occasional waltz. On the lyrical front you will hear adventures of dogging, tales of femme fatales and accidental infidels, and the most instances of the word Munter in a commercially released song. Catchy choruses with tounge firmly in cheek, apart from the occasional heartfelt moment of love... "My Great Big Feckin' Farm...