FIBBING REVIEWSSometimes people say or write really nice things about us. We think
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"The Big Fibbers are big fun, no lie. Their songs are touching ('Booze, madness and the ghost of love'), relevant ('I want to be normal, why can't I be normal?' - a song that pretty much everyone in the audience can identify with I speculate), and not least, nostalgic ('I scream/You scream/beside the seaside...sorry, didn't quite catch the full title). The lead singer's t-shirt says it all really; paying homage to the Monster Raving Loony Party, and it occurs to me that the festival itself could be construed as a fundraising enterprise for the aforementioned cult of eccentricity, flippancy and downright recklessness. Great British eccentrics they are indeed; with a medieval, Shakespearian feel to their merrymaking. I went to see King Lear at the Globe recently and some of Tom O Bedlam's rantings and ravings were not totally dissimilar in theme and import. They are the latter day Chas n Dave of anti-folk you could say, and might say, with a liberal dash of Keith Floyd thrown in. " |
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"Some people have said they’re a bit like me - it was probably them." - John Otway |
| "A bit like Billy Bragg if he was drunk and funny. And if he wore pvc trousers. And if he was a duo." - Soundbites |
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"Panto Popstars" - Time Out |
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"Not bad" - Attila the Stockbroker |
| "The latter day Chas n Dave of anti-folk with a liberal dash of Keith Floyd thrown in." - Gin Soaked Girl |
| "Funny lyrics and tuneful choruses. Brilliant." - The Monster Raving Loony Party, official website |
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