This is Awkward

You know that I never tire of writing about the subject of love.  Foz the Hook has a bunch of love songs, including My Kind of Mess, and the Ballad of Casino Kit.  Someday soon we will put songs like Between a Bed and a Chair and Her Head on a Pillow back in the set, which will shock and confuse you with their not-funniness.  In those cases we have substituted good for funny with the help of a dead gay playwright from St. Louis (Note:  As far as I know Tennessee Williams died of old age – we had nothing to do with it). 

Love.  This brings me to the subject if our recent appearance on the live podcast performance of Awkward Moments by Collin A. Bullock.  It was a pretty great show, and we recorded it with Collin and Mike Lebovitz, Chris Condren, Jacob Williams, and Byron.  Collin has completed the post-production stuff and the recording is now available for your listening pleasure.

We played a little at the beginning and the end.  But, in the middle Collin embarked on a mission of trying destroy as many romantic relationships as possible, and the comics who stood the lose the most played right along.  There are some pretty wild moments in there, and Mike Lebovitz provides some particularly hilarious and soul-searching insights.  It’s like he also understands that in comedy it is often useful to substitute good for funny.

Anyway, the show definitely lives up to its title this time – awkward and funny.  It is well worth your time listening to it, and not just because we play at the end.

Also, speaking of good and funny:  will you be at Cole’s tonight at 9:00?  FtH will be opening the comedy show like we always do.  We never play the same set the same way twice.  In fact, every single song we have ever played over the course of two years has been different than every other performance. 

That’s what I call love.

Two Foz the Hook Shows.

Hey Chums.

Foz and the boys are playing two fantastic shows for you at Cole’s this weekend.

Sunday, February 28, 9:00 PM, at Cole’s, 2338 N. Milwaukee in Chicago.

Tomorrow night (Sunday) we will play our “Tennessee Williams” set as part of Dan John’s great open mic. This show will feature musical arrangements of a series of Tennessee Williams poems, mostly from Williams’ “Blue Mountain Ballads” collection. Foz the Hook will feature beautiful versions of “Heavenly Grass,” “Her Head on the Pillow,” and “Between a Bed and a Chair.” I have enjoyed these poems immensely since picking up a copy of “In the Winter of the Cities” a couple of years ago. It is nice to see other artists pitch in, and enjoy it as much as I do. Coleman Brice has also arranged a couple of titles, and he will play his material too.

Monday, March 1, 9:00 PM, at Cole’s, 2338 N. Milwaukee in Chicago.

Our regular first-Monday show gets rolling at 9:00. Come on in for all of your Foz favorites, including “With Drunk Astronauts,” “Cheese Jesus,” (see above) “Eat Egg,” and “Keep Your Nose Clean.” It’s going to be a huge love fest, meaning you love us. Be there! Buy us drinks. We'll be great.

Three-fer

Hey, you drunkards! Foz the Hook plays three times this week. I don’t think that is what Coleman Brice had in mind when he established Cole’s. There are, I understand, other bands in Chicago, but we just love to play at Cole’s.

Tomorrow night you know the deal. You will come to Cole’s by about 8:00. At 8:30 you will sign up for the comedy open mic (provided you are funny). At 9:00 you will watch FtH warm up the room, and feel unexpected and shameful urges. Urges that will make you want to howl for more. At 9:30 the comics will begin to poke your brain pan, as you shriek in helpless fits of giggling. By the time you change underwear about midnight, your old pal Foz will be sitting at the end of the bar sipping a stout and enjoying the beauty of it all.

You are no doubt wondering when the fabled Tennessee Williams Thing will occur. Well, that is happening on Sunday night, February 28, as part of Dan John’s music open mic. There was a time when the Tennessee Williams Thing was developing into a big multi-media production, but that turned out to be hard. Now it’s just the “next album.” However, you can do worse than returning to Cole’s on Sunday night to check out the non-smartass element of FtH’s show. Who knows, you might like such arrangements as Heavenly Grass, Between a Bed and a Chair, Her Head on a Pillow, or Cabin – all simply beautiful poems that practically arrange themselves into very pretty songs. Cole will also pitch in at least two arrangements that he is contributing to the project.

Then – did you forget about it? – next Monday is the first Monday of the month, which means FtH will rock you to bed with our full set of shameful and disgraceful sounds. Do you remember With Drunk Astronauts? Do you remember Cheese Jesus? Do you remember Theme of the Guys From France? They will all be on the set list Monday night, so clear you calendar and be there.

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