Turn Crap Into Treasure with our special post-Xmas musical auction. Thursday 28 January

Bring the stuff that people you barely know gave you over the holidays. And we’ll auction it with full musical accompaniment, making sure you get the best possible price. We’ll give the money to a charity of our choice and you get to go home to a house with less clutter. Come with your crud and your cash.

a friend of diego brown yesterday

diego brown and the good fairy make a raw, sorry rare, appearance in person at

CROSS KINGS

Also featuring the intimately groovy In Maths.
Cross Kings

126 York Way

King’s Cross

N1 0AX King’s Cross

Tel: 020 7278 8318. Doors: 8.00 pm

Here’s some of the stuff we’re bringing along that you could get your hands on if you bid high enough:

A frying pan, the simple solution to egg-frying

Lazy Town gear. It all works

Diary of the O2 Arena?

This is a cracking record:

A great new sound for the teenies

More here:

http://www.ranasinghe.clara.co.uk/v_crosskings.html

It’s really really thingy.
The Great Whale of Westminster

Tags: great whale of westminster, video

We’ve been asked a few times for the words to this song. So here they are.

The Great Whale of Westminster

‘Go home!’ was the cry from the banks of the Thames

As the great whale of Westminster shallowed the swell

Of the baggy brown water dragged under the face

Of Big Ben as he chimed and as time slipped away

Time, time, time, slipped away.

‘Go home!’ was the chorus that rose from the crowd

And ran round the gargoyled corridors of power,

As, shoulder to shoulder, the kids lifted high

For the memory as the news crews choppered the sky.

Mr whippy sang shanties as the squally gulls squeaked

And burst clouds of helium balloons with their beaks.

‘Go home!’ was the message the church bells did bring

From the other great fish, nowhere left to swim,

In the bowels of the museum, nowhere left to hide

In a coffin of Perspex and formaldehyde.

‘Go home!’ said the beggar at the foot of the steps

Of the bridge from which charity seems to have leapt.

‘You do not belong here, you’ll never survive

‘The fear in our bellies, the wink of our knives.’

On the scaffold the hard hats placed bets on his life

And the cranes swung their chains as if casting a line.

And distressed by the circus, bullied by the tide

The great whale of Westminster swallowed and dived.

Swallowed, swallowed, swallowed, and dived.

By Kate Bradbury

Diego Brown and the Good Fairy

Watch the video.

Tags: lyrics, songs

If you happen to be reading this hooked up wirelessly in a steak house hotspot, take a mo to chew on this bonkers fact of the year:

the meat and dairy industry produces more climate corrupting pollution than all the planes, lorries and cars on the planet.

While you swallow, those of you who’ve known us for a while may remember Diego Brown and the Good Fairy playing a few gigs at a cabaret club in Soho a few years ago. Those eclectic and surreal events were organised by mysterious funny man Dan Antopolski - now an Edinburgh Fringe Festival award winner. (So we know someone really quite famous, OK?)

Not just a beardy face, Dan is also a talented musician, brilliant comic and now an environmental campaigner (how many hot things can one man do?) And lately he has been helping massively in putting together a line-up of very funny people on 12 November at the Hammersmith Apollo. They are:

• Chris Addison
• Dan Antopolski
• Hils Barker
• Marcus Brigstocke
• Richard Herring
• Russell Howard
• Stephen Merchant
• Francesca Martinez
• Lucy Porter
• Mark Watson
• And there will be a special guest appearance from Razorlight.

We’re in Aldershot on 4 July.

It’s the coolest indoor grass court music fest you will ever go to. The man behind the scenes really knows what he’s doing. So even if you don’t catch us (huh?) it’s worth going to.

Westival,

West End Centre

48 Queens Rd

Aldershot

Hampshire GU11 3JD

We had such a good time at Cross Kings that we had to lie down for a week or two.

 

Donna whirls

 

 

Now we’ve had a nap, we’re OK again.

Here’s some stuff we’re up to.

Thursday 25 June - a “private” party in North London

Saturday 27 June - a “private” party just north of London

Saturday 4 July - 9pm at Summer Westival, Aldershot’s answer to the Isle of Wight’s answer to Glastonbury’s answer to er… what was the question again?

Saturday 11 July - Hesfes - one of our favourite annual events. A week long romp in the Kent countryside with the friendliest folks around. www.hesfes.co.uk

Oh and you can now buy our new album mutter mutter. Buy it, it’s really really good.

Thursday is Obama’s Day 101.
To cheer him up we’re going to make some music.
And there will be hoops of hula.

Zwah
| Remnant King
| Bearcraft
| Diego Brown and the Good Fairy

a bus earlier today

 

Plus the hula hooping genius of Donna & Susie.

Thursday 30 April
The Cross Kings

126 York Way 
N1 0AX
Tel: 020 7278 8318

Doors: 8.00 pm

Entry: £5

Tags: gigs

Mr Brown sneered in the general direction his enemies today by revealing the biggest bangy thump thump of the century.

“An exclusive night of shady deals, cooked-up power chords and unexpected weasel beats,” is how we’ve been asked to describe it. Exclusive in the sense that some things won’t be allowed, presumably. Like expense accounts.

What will be allowed are mighty songs, awesome melodies, nononsense grooves and acres of hula hooping.You will whistle, hum and flap your hands about like a sparrow caught in the slipstrem of a passing high speed train. 

It will be the meeting of this generation’s brightest musical hopes and darkest fears.

Zwah
Remnant King
Bearcraft
Diego Brown and the Good Fairy 

Thursday 30 April

The Cross Kings
126 York Way 
N1 0AX

 King’s Cross

Tel: 020 7278 8318
Doors: 8.00 pm
Entry: £5 

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Check out Diego Brown & The Good Fairy

mini clips from when we saved the world a couple of weeks ago

diegobrownmail@gmail.com

for questions

Tags: gigs, live

THURSDAY 26 MARCH
is Brown Thursday.
And we will Ease the Fisc. 

Doors 8ish pm

Entry: Free
Ryan’s Bar

181 Church Street, London, N16 0UL [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 
Tube: Manor House (1 mile)
Rail: Stoke Newington (0.6 miles), Rectory Road (0.7 miles), Stamford Hill (1 mile)
Bus: 73, 476, 393 (spitting distance)