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Medicine Stu

No Man With A Good Coat Needs To Be Justified...

About Me

Stu Gibson is the rubber legged honcho behind Manchester, England's trashiest rawk and roll band, The Medicine Bow, who got their name from either a Waterboys song or an Indian tribe in Wyoming. Either one works. When he's not drinking bands with lesser constitutions under the table, he's avoiding work. That, and writing about rock and roll in a way that only a true blue rock and roller can. Check out the Bow at www.themedicinebow.co.uk and find out what 'sozzled' means - and if you are, in fact, sozzled yourself, right here. [email protected] - Mr. The Sleazegrinder----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------- I play guitar, write & growl rotgutly & ungodly in CountryPunkin Boogie Trash Barstads The Medicine Bow, do similar but with more blunderboogiethunder in portly pissed cuntr-rOI! punks The Dangerous Aces and stumble through a few chords & slip a few old Thunders & Dogs licks into, or out of, shape as a Semi-Precious Gent, the estimable backing band of matchless chanteuse of dark country byways and creaking swing-bridges of the soul, Belle of Les Bois. And now play bass in Kurt Dirt and the Love Rats, erstwhile Exorsisters frontman's new sewer-swillers********************************************** ************************************************************ ******Along with such merry-makery as that I also scribble scuff-kneed, delirium-inducing seam-splitting diatribes sadistically scraped into some semblance of reviews where records, books, and DVD's are mercilessly desecrated so only the true believers get the good word about their own particular slant on sinicious, surf-spun garage rockabilly, americana-cowpunk'n cheap-junked sleaze squall n' street rockin' pavement punk spread far, fast n'fantastically fucking loud atop a wave shaped like a psychobilly flat-top. So there ye go... ************************************************************ ********************************************************** MEDICINE BOW - FUCKING RAWWWWWWWWWKKKK!!!BEST GIG EVER LAST NIGHT. IF YOU MISSED IT, SHAME, DEEP DEEP SHAME...XXXXXXXXXXX Cathrin 'Belle of Les Bois' - ************************************************************ ***********************************************************M EDICINE STU ROCKS!...ONE OF THE BEST WRITERS IN THE WHOLE FECKIN' COUNTRY BY MY RECKONIN'! - Infamous T, BIG Productions*************** **********************************************************Am azing - thanks! Stu's writing is not unlike Lester Bangs'. Please extend my congratulations to him on penning the Pariahs' most interesting review to date : ) - Neil Leyton, Fading Ways.------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --- YOUR WORDS AND DESRIPTIONS AR HELARIOUS !!!!!MAY THE TRASH BE WITH YOUBEAT-MAN------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------Jan 14th, 2008 - 1:22 AM Re: STU,HERO,SLEAZE!!!Slade The Leveller - STU you are an AMAZING writer.I have shit to send you when I get my life together.Jan 14th, 2008 - 2:01 AM Re: STU,HERO,SLEAZE!!!Subculture Hero -I second that. Stu is amazing.$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$Damn - that is some insane-ass writing'!! I loves it - Angie Carlson, Press Darling PR (on The Sadies)***************************************************** ************************************************************ *****Hey Stu, Cheers for the review, another fantastic-to-read one as always! cheers, Ash :-) - Yabasta PR / Fading Ways ************************************************************ ************************************************************ *****'does Stu Gibson talk like he writes? I feel exhausted just reading his stuff'. - Rock'n'Reel reader's email to the editor!***************************************************** ************************************************************ ***** alright stu,you mental cunt. we will use it, but not all on the sleeve, coz it's too fucking long. we can put the whole piece on the web. it's fucking great btw - and totally mental.Ph;l Stray Dog Cafe, pleased with their sleeve notes it seems...$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Hel lo All, I saw the review of our CD - Kat Men - on your site (which is excellent, by the way), and I just wanted to pass on my sincere thanks to the reviewer, Stu Gibson. A superbly written piece, and is by far and away the most enjoyable review I've ever seen written about anything I've ever done! Thanks again, Darrel Higham****************************************************** ************************************************************ ****stu gibson and medicine bow may be the greatest thing in music since the faces.one of the best. if they dont make it huge, there is no justice. – Mr Dave Takis, Tommy Rivers & The Raw Ramps / Georgia Satellites manager, with hyperbole even I’d find hard to beat!******************************************************* ************************************************************ *****"Herr gibsons reviews are so fantastical they set aflame the very ovaries of a million distant great grandmother through my blood line all the way back to cleopatra baby...."theres a new un for ya! - KURT DIRT, o'verily (read it again!) frontman of Th' Exor-FugginhallehBARSTADluhjaaaah-Sisters******************* ************************************************************ ***********************************Hello GibsonJesus Key-Riiiiiiiiiste! Is that a demented fan wallow or what? What a great piece of slobber! I really am glad that my little band can inspire plagiarism, the sweetest homage there is! I'm sending this to my daughters right now, it's about time they learned the meaning of repect! :))Jeremy - Mr Jeremy Gluck of The Baccarudas************************************************** ************************************************************ ******** STU, I JUST READ THE "BEST OF 2004" ON SLEAZEGRINDER. YOU ARE FUCKING AWESOME DUDE. WE THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES OVER. - Dave Takis, Tommy Rivers & The Raw Ramps manager ************************************************************ ********************************************************** Luv it! Very scattergun, Hunter S Thompson, stream of whatsit... very good, cheers!Alex - The Snakes****************************************************** ********************************************************** Man let me just say that you definately have a crazy way of writing! - Josh, Full Breach Kicks label ************************************************************ **********************************************************Fo r God's sake, will Stu Gibson stop trying to be so damned clever, and just write straightforward, informative CD reviews. Whenever I come across a review starting with a 10 line sentence, and overloaded with alliteration and otiose and obfuscating verbiage (goodness - it's obviously catching!), I know it's him. Advise him to put a damp compress on his forehead, and lie down in a darkened room for an hour or so, to calm him down before he sits down to pen his reviews in future. Your riled, ranting, raving reader. Peter Boland, Burnopfield, Newcastle-on-Tyne - Letter to Maverick by someone obviously derangedly jealous that they don't get whale shark sack fulls of free stuff every week.******************************************************* **********************************************************Al ways enjoy your alliterative ramblings - Chris Long Editor, BBC Online - wonder what Mr Boland would say to that!! :)********************************************************** *****************************************************Thank you very much for doing such a good job on the album. It's great when somebody who understands the music does the review it gets to the soul of what is going on with the band.Many thanks,Pat - Pat Tynan Media

My Interests

Merciless, Malevolent Melancholic moonshine Mayhem...the Bottlebank Boogie babylon Baby...the spleen 'sploding Sermoneers of the Sacred Psalms, the Mental beat Maurauderers...anything that makes my Ducks Ass shake and feets to shuffle around...and take my Latest Last Legs a Cadillac Walkin', Swingin' A Go-Go down Shakin' Street, via Lonely Avenue and heading left of centre down the Detonation Boulevard of Broken Heels, Dreams, Splintered schemes fallen apart at the seams, Dancin' in the Moonlight down to the Dynamite Jet Saloon knocking back the Nightclub Jitters...the Songs from the Floor, Coats of many colours, sweet, sharp switchblade shoes, the Devastation Backfirin' Brokendown Blues,

I'd like to meet:

The Sleaze team; A pillock with a prediliction for signing CountryPunk bands; Likewise an enterprising editor that'll pay me for scribbling scuff kneed scruffy scrawls; Emperor Penguins; A Gretsch or 3; A Mayan Priest; A Great White, The Flamingo hurtel in Vegas,

...Ayuss, yass n' yessir, the Alrightee Almighty Wild n' fucking Wonderful heartbreak shakers & bedraggled buncha Delapidated dandies of The Medicine Bow, bring torrential Tattered Heart Rags, Wistful waltzes, Devastation Serenades & eloquent paeans to pissing up the wrong fucking tree Some simply elegant eulogies for that estimable band of bedraggled sea-farers & Bow-legged bar-fodder...

'masters of whiskey and wine driven country punk, oh, truly exciting stuff--someone commented it was like watching a modern day Johnny Cash and June Carter....' - Belle of les Bois.

'Manchester's trashiest rawk'n'roll band...& premier country bumpkin band...country music for orphans & exiles, Rock'n'Roll for the lost & lonely with big ideas for revenge and redemption' - THE Sleazegrinder.

The Medicine Bow who fumbled along like a humping homo with brewers droop. The quality of songs were great and this is a band I would love to get on the next SAS but for me the sound punished this lot and Medicine Stu's inebriated antics hindered the flow of musical urine. Don't get me wrong it was still an enjoyable venture but there is a lot more in the accoustic anus here and a full blown musical fart was released in fits and spurts rather than one long heady drone of intoxicationg riffology. Shame really but always take your medicine to keep the blues at bay. Enjoyable but not 100% effective - similar in fact to letting a chicken peck off your genital pox (so rumour has it). Fungalpunk

'Greased back wonky tonk rock chops stomp the hogg hog' - FictionNonFictionCOMING SOON TO A DESERT FAR FAR AWAY...'The Curse Of The Bow' (aka Bourban) is also on this grubby nugget along with Aces drummer & Bow harp player Matt Woods, The Shadowcops, The Kirkz, Dog Toffee & Revenge Of The Psychotronic Man. £5 from www.tnsrecords.co.uk

Music:

Here goes nuthin' - The Dogs D'Amour / Tyla, 13th Floor Elevators / Roky Erickson, Johnny Thunders / New York Dolls / Sylvain Sylvain, The Waterboys, Steve Earle, Voice of the Beehive, Murder City Devils, Dead Beat Records, Voodoo Rhythm Records, People Like You Records,Kings of Nuthin', The Replacements / Paul Westerberg, Social Distortion, The Go-Gos, Last of the Teenage Idols, Babysitters, Psychedelic Furs, The Sisters of Murky, Bauhaus, Fields of the Nephilim, Izzy Stradlin', Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Boy Fuller, Nikki Sudden / Dave Kusworth / Jacobites, Lords of the New Church / Stiv Bators / Dead Boys, Curve, Babes in Toyland, Soho Roses, Gram Parsons, Heather Nova, Kathleen Edwards, Jesus and Mary Chain, Georgia Satellites, Tommy Rivers and The Raw Ramps, Big Black, The Stray Cats, The Cramps, Bruce Springsteen, The Cult, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, 16 Horsepower, Bob Wills Texas Playboys, Slobberbone, The Barracudas, The Makers, Spacemen 3, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers, Gallows, Teddy Trigger & The Gatling Guns, Motorhead, HellCat Records, Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, The Surgens, Kid Voodoo, Revenge of the Psychotronic Man, Maria McKee, Flamin' Groovies, The Crybabys, T-Rex, Buddy Holly, Roy orbison, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Royal Trux, Tex and The Horseheads, ELVIS, Gene Vincent, Eileen Rose, Creaming Jesus, 9 Pound Hammer, The Rolling Stones, Nick Cave, The Clash, Leonard Cohen, The Jayhawks, The Boys, Faster Pussycat, Jerry Lee Lewis, David Bowie, Blind Willie McTell, The Carter Family, Julian Cope, The Flaming Stars, Syd Barrett, The Small Faces

Movies:

Scarface, Dillinger (Warren Oates version), Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Frankie and Johnny, Love Field, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Goodfellas, Drugstore Cowboy, Saw's, Horror films,

Television:

The Simpsons, News, History docs, wildlife programmes especially those on sharkies, gators and the like.

Books:

'On The Road', 'The Grapes of Wrath', 'Berlin 1945' & 'Stalingrad' - Anthony Beevor, The Master and Margharita, History and True Crime, 'Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee', Shaun Hutson, newspapers new and old, Neil Hanson - narrative historian, music biogs - guess I have to

Heroes:

Robin Hood, Josey Wales, Keef, Keith Floyd, Mike Scott, Julian Cope, Sweet Smilin' Ronnie Lane, Paul Wasterberg, Reverend Beat-Man, Sleazegrinder, my folks, friends n' bands - hopefully one n' the same these days, not that I'm in a band with my folks. Yet. As The Earle Of Steve succinctly puts it 'I got friends that I owe, I ain't naming names cos they know, who I am, and where I stand'.

My Blog

The Good Ship feature on BBC...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2008/04/10/ medicine_bow_introducing_feature.shtml...
Posted by Medicine Stu on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:31:00 PST

Bow songs on XFM to cast thy asparaguses on...

www.xfmuploaded.co.uk/themedicinebow/...
Posted by Medicine Stu on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:53:00 PST

FungalPunk interview with my shirt

http://www.fungalpunknature.co.uk/FUNGALPUNK/Interviews/MedS tu.html
Posted by Medicine Stu on Sun, 13 May 2007 05:21:00 PST

Rock'n'Reel & Maverick Magazines

http://www.rock-n-reel.co.uk http://www.myspace.com/maverick_country   ...
Posted by Medicine Stu on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:07:00 PST

The Dangerous Aces Live set at The Castle 'Hotel'

http://www.castlepub.co.uk/gallery.html Scroll down to April 12th & there we are, on the way you'll pass an Aces link that doesn't work, & some other sets by the likes of Revenge of the Psycho...
Posted by Medicine Stu on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:45:00 PST

Collected BBC & This Is Lancashire Reviews

Kid Voodoo http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2007/10/08/ 041007_kid_voodoo_feature.shtml   The Tailshakers http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2007/09/27/ 220907_tailsha...
Posted by Medicine Stu on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:48:00 PST

Mellifluous Mayhem On Myspace

Yup, finally. The Medicine Bow's own myspace page is here...so click on it while you flick something else, clip on your fancy friend & electrify your own space in the way only marauding medicine m...
Posted by Medicine Stu on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:08:00 PST

The Bow website here again

Ayuss, the Legendary Medicine Bow have returned... http://www.themedicinebow.co.uk We get nearer to recording some new music too...recorded some drums the other week. Apparantly they're 'salvageable'!...
Posted by Medicine Stu on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:18:00 PST