We got load o new tunes up on the Myspace page now too - Check em out:

New recordings:

Daniel Denial
Seasick Sam
I Know Your Mum
Pear Cider

Remixes and Collabs:

Ye Men Of Evil - Bison and Bongo Chilli. Big Tune!
The Remake - a remix of Supersweet by Oliver. Superb!

Any feedback appreciated......

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So we're in the middle of a blinding series of gigs at the moment.  Glastonbury was an experience and five gigs I'll never forget.  On the Red Bull stage, we were pretty much busking with a full band, starting off with only a handful in the audience and building to a few hundred skanking lunatics by the end of the gig.  Saturday's gig in Birmingham was similarly rod, and this Sunday we're back in Sheffield for the Abbeyfield multicultural festival.  Buzzing.

Any gig is only as good as the crowd, and some of the crowds we've had recently have been properly ace.

On top of that we've got the new album ready now, and we're really proud of it.  Watch this space for details of how to buy it online (I know I keep saying that but we really are very close to getting it together now).  Plus you can already buy it at gigs, and it's being snapped up like jerk chicken at an overly veggie-centric festival.

Anyway, just thought I'd try and spread a bit of the buzz that seems to be surrounding Bison at the moment.  Not that anybody probably reads these feckers.  Never mind, might as well keep emitting.

The Voice of Bison

Peace in the Park 2008 is going to go down as a classic Bison gig I reckon. Crowd surfing check, stage invasion check, broken trumpet check, power switched off by the organisers and then switched back on again due to crowd demand check and check.  Massive thanks to everyone who came down and made it so enormous, as well as the organisers who made Sheffield's funnest festival even funner this year. Sweet

Next time we're on stage will be at Glastonbury.  Consider this a plea to anyone who's coming down this year to come and see us and say hello.  It would be good to see some friends of Bison and you definitely want to see our outfits.

Cheers

Jim

It's quite hard to fit nine Bison in a shoebox in the garage, but if you could that's probably where we would have been for the last couple of months, nestled among the hosepipes and oily rags, dreaming deep dreams of orange plains, mirror-ball hats and pampas. 

I've just looked back at that sentence and it's clearly bewildering.  Never mind, I'm not rewriting it now.  Just plain can't be bothered.

The point is we appear to have been asleep since the Christmas gig, and that's pretty much the size of it.  We're now just stretching and yawning, flexing our knees and looking ahead to another year roaming with the thundering, horny beast we've all come to know and love.

If anybody's interested, here's what's on our to-do list:

1.  Get the Saturday Big Shop album as good as we know it can be.  We weren't totally happy with the initial mixes, so a very talented man called Rob Gordon will be polishing them up all nice and shiny for us at some point in the next few weeks.  Then we'll be flogging the album for all its worth.

2.  Getting some festival gigs sorted out. 

3.  Training up our stand-in keyboard bloke, Stuart.  Pete is otherwise disposed for the first half of this year, so we need to get the new boy up to scratch.  Once he's undergone our elaborate hazing rituals, we'll unleash him on the world.

Anyway, just thought I'd say hello.  Futurologists currently predict our next gig will be Juntion 7 in Nottingham on 28 March. 

Ah'll sithee

The Voice of Bison

Twas two weeks before Christmas, when all through the Plug
Not a creature was stirring, not even a bug;
Orange bunting was hung from the ceiling with care,
In hopes that some ska music soon would be there;
The students were yawning, not long from their beds,
The hippies were dancing and waving their dreads;
A handful of townies in Burberry caps,
Leant on the bar with its bright, shiny taps,
When up on the stage there arose such a clatter,
The revellers looked to see what was the matter.
The house lights grew dim and the stage lights did flash,
And music began, 'twas not techno nor thrash
Not emo nor grindcore nor ambient punk
Not new wave of loungecore nor post-doom-jazz-funk
Not ragtime nor art-rock nor grunge-fusion-trance
But music designed to make connoisseurs dance
Voices in the vanguard and horns at the flank
Backed up by the most irresistible skank
Keyboards were plinking and guitars were strumming
The bassline was booming and drums were, well, drumming
And decked out in orange, stood all in a line
There on the stage were ten dancing bovines
More rapid than eagles the Bison they came,
And they whistled, and shouted, and called out by name;
"Now, Butcher! now, Baker! now, Pronger, O'Malley!
On, Baxter! on Sheppo! on, NotBombs and Barry!
On Charvet! on Robinson! quick", came the call,
"Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"
The onlookers looked at each other and said,
"How glad are we all that we got out of bed!
And coughed up our fiver (if we paid in advance,
At Record Collector, or Ebenezer Jack's,
Or Forever Changes, or the Plug Box Office),
Old Basford I'm also glad not to have missed,
Mojo & the Beatniks and DJ Bollocks ruled,
Those who went elsewhere must now feel like fools,
And now we'll all purchase the brand new album,
'Saturday Big Shop' by a band called Bison"
The music grew louder as the poem went crap,
Till some drunkard climbed on a chair at the back,
And I heard him exclaim, ere he fell out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night."

In other words, come to Bison's Tonne of Meat Christmas Ruckus on Friday 14th December at the Plug in Sheffield.  Tickets are £5 in advance from the usual places, or it's a paltry £6 on the door.  Mojo & the Beatniks and Old Basford are supporting.  We've got a new album (our best yet, if we do say so ourselves, and we do) for sale and we will be playing a load of new tunes alongside some old favourites.

Or, if you live in Nottingham, come to Junktion 7 on 15th as we're playing there too.  Santa-stic!

www.oldbasford.com

www.myspace.com/mojoandthebeatniks

www.the-plug.com

www.junktion7.co.uk

www.allhailthebison.com
www.myspace.com/allhailthebison

God bless us, everyone!

The Ghost of Bison Present
x 

BRAND NEW ALBUM LAUNCH!!!

Yes that's right folks, Bison are back with a brand new album done proper (We spent two whole weeks recording in a hideout in Northampton) and we think it's easily the best yet.

To celebrate we're doing a special Tonne of Meat Party at plug on Friday 14th december in the Neutral Room.

Tickets are only £5 (from Jacks Records or Plug Box Office) and we'll be selling pre-release copies of our album at a knock down price, so get there early as there's only 100 copies available at this stage.

The fun starts at 10pm with support from Mojo and the Beatniks, and Old Basford from Notts making a special trip to play you their own brand of boogie-woogie blues funk. Plus some stonking tunes from DJ Bollocks, Chiv and Pete not Bombs.

It's gonna be a cracking night with stiltwalkers, walkabout wierdness and much more. And if you're feeling extra 'special', you can bring along your best Winter Sweater for our Gruesome Knitwear competition!

Hope to see ya there. It's gonna be a riot.....

Laaaaaa lalalalala lalalala lala laaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, laaa
laaaaaaaaaaaaa, lalalalala lala laaaaaaaaaaaaaa, etc.

Yes that's right (as if you had any idea what I was going on about) Bison have landed the support for the mighty Neville Staple, formerly of the Specials, and therefore a man who had a hand in what is, for my money, possibly the best number one record ever released in Britain.

Neville (and his band) will be hitting Sheffield on Saturday 6 October 2007 and tearing up the snakebite-sticky but hopefully violence-free dancefloor of our very own Corporation in the way only he can.  And support will come from the F*ckwits, Fat Piggy MC and Bison.  And truly the ska-heads of Sheffield will rejoice in the streets.  Yea, and verily those who just like a nice tune will be quite pleased as well.

And then the week after we'll be in good old Nottingham for Oxjam at Junktion 7 on Friday the 12th, with Yunioshi, This Machine, Mr Jones and the fine Percussion DJs, then back in Sheffield for the International Students' party at the Octagon on the 13th.  At the Octagon, they have radio mics and you get towels in the dressing room, so we'll feel like Madonna.  Well, like an  extremely pikey Madonna who nicks the towels out of the dressing room.  She probably would have done that round about Desperately Seeking Susan but these days she probably has her dressing room done out like a medieval castle or something.  Or a spaceship.  Yeah, that would be cool.

Anyway, catch us at one of those gigs I just said.  You know it makes sense.

The Voice of Bison

Rod new Bison photos available.  Firstly, some Shambala ones in our photo section.  Also some Edinburgh festival pics here:

http://johnhobsonphotography.com/albums/bands/20070817_Bison_Edinburgh/

Bo!

Rodimus