Hoochie Fig | keith@hoochiefig.com | 32 posts
Hi Figsters Great News! The Fondoo event in November 2009, has raised £320 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Thanks to Ken and Colin for donating the evening’s takings. Thanks also to a great crowd and all who played: Kris Barnett, Ken Barrett, Paul Gilbody, Douglas Kay Band. The Fig played too of course. The donation of this money [...]
February 24, 2010
Hi Figsters, With near completion of the album (really!) and album design underway we’ll be redesigning the Fig website. As an initial step, we have moved from Blogger to Wordpress (which, you now are looking at). We’ll design a new look and apply it as soon as it’s ready. from the new site, you’ll be able [...]
August 6, 2009
Hi Figsters, So, where the Fig are we? when are we coming out? Will we look and feel the same? It’s been over a year since the last post. Terrible. But we were busy! Busy with getting the final mixes for the Fig Album completed. We want it to be right. We want it to bright. [...]
June 23, 2008
Hi Figsters! The Fig are now playing at the Ark on 1st July (see gig list in the side panel for details). Be great if you can come along and shake off the not-quite-the-middle-of-the-week-yet blues. Keep on Figgin’!
June 10, 2008
Just a quick newsflash to say… We have been asked to support Ten Storeys High at their album launch night at the Voodoo Rooms on Friday 27th June. We are on stage at 8.30 prompt and it’s free to get in, so no excuses! There will be press etc. there so we’d be keen to get [...]
April 25, 2008
Figs! Great to see you all over the weekend at gigs in Peebles and Edinburgh – and to meet new Figlets who’ve joined the mailing list – thanks! Saturday at Fondoo was a blast – thanks Ken and Colin. Great guitar work and songs from Kristian Labak. I didn’t get chance to speak to Kristian [...]
April 8, 2008
Well hello there! It’s been a while my bloggy chum(s)… we have been very lazy figs indeed. We left you alone for a while but now we need you to summon your strength once again, click the mouse and read some slightly drunk, pot-bellied meanderings… and maybe come to a gig or two. So what’s been going [...]
December 25, 2007
Merry Christmas! Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas to anyone visiting our blog over the festive season. We’re seeing the year out with a bash at the Village Bar, South Fort St., Leith at 8pm, for free! Come and see us, the Dead Beat Club and their Dutch pal Gerton Govers. PLease come along, it’ll [...]
November 13, 2007
Hi Figgers Following on from two crackin’ gigs earlier this month (thanks for your support!), The Fig will be joining Ten Stories High at the VooDoo Rooms, Edinburgh on Thursday 22nd November. Get yersel’ along, it’s only four quid!
September 25, 2007
Beck?………………………… Hoochie Fig? Yo Figgers! Get a load of this! Beck has a new single out. It’s called “Timebomb” and bears more than a slight similarity to a Hoochie Fig track, called “Timebomb”, which was recorded in the year 2000 in a bedroom in Leith. Now, I’m not accusing Beck of plagiarism – Fig forbid! – [...]
February 28, 2010