Bad Bad Craig live at Mutant Music 15/01/09
Last month at Mutant Music, Bad Bad Craig compered the evening with sparkling repartee and Hollywood reminisces. He also kicked the evening off with a wee acoustic set of Bad Bad Men numbers, including a couple of brand new tracks and a sexy cover version.
Here he talks us through the songs, which you can download soundboard bootlegs of for free, simply by clicking on the titles. Are you sitting comfortably? Then he’ll begin…
I decided to open with this one as it’s a mainstay of the Bad Bad Men live set and at least 13 of our 14 known fans seem to like it! I’ve never officially been to prison unlike the rest of the band (Bad Bad Jen in particular) so it was their recollections that inspired this tune to a degree. Before the end section kicks in, I usually like to discuss dinner plans with drumming wizard Bad Bad Ryan aka: She-Ra – Princess of Power, aka: Mr Tigger but he was sadly not in attendance that evening, this made me sad!
This is a new Baddies tune and I’m not 100% sure I remembered all the words but it seemed to go well! Bad Bad Stewi (he of the otherworldly blonde locks) pointed out that a tiny part of it bares an alarming resemblance to a Tina Turner song hence the intro! I’m sure Tina won’t mind too much! Tina, if you’re reading this, let’s get a coffee and we’ll discuss financial compensation!
Brother, When Our Troubles Are Over
Another new one, written for a friend going through a rough time! Not gonna make any jokes in this paragraph, keep reading though…
Man, The Baddies have been playing this one for donkeys ages, the ladies seem to like it though and that’s obviously a good thing so it remains in the set. I played it on this particular night because I realised that I can’t actually play as many of our tunes on guitar as I thought I could! This rendition perhaps missed the sultry tones of young Bad Bad Gareth of Hunter but he was there in spirit and coincidentally he was there drinkin a lot of spirits not 10 ft from where I was playing!
Please believe me, this is entirely free of irony, I worship at the feet of the song writing talent behind those goddesses of modern pop; Girls Aloud, they have awesome tunes! I like to think that Cheryl writes them all while living rough in a little log cabin in Wisconsin a la Bon Iver but I’ve a feeling that’s probably not the case! Nonetheless this is a beautiful treatise on the politics of love!
Bad Bad Craig
January 2009
* Sadly our tape cut out at an inopportune moment during this song, but we figured you’d want to hear what we did get.
