(SEBP at Razzmatazz, Barcelona)

Story everyone? It’s been a cool few months here at camp bonus. We’re mad busy writing and recording our second LP, and we’re dead excited about what we’ve got for you so far. We spent some time in a beautiful village called Ardmore in County Waterford recording tunes, making lots of noise and collecting dead green crabs from the beach. It was excellent, and a big thank you must go to the Elsted clan for accommodating us.

(Above: Going insane in Ardmore)

We’ve been keeping it fairly quiet on the gig front while we’re recording, but we did manage to cram in one show a few weeks ago over in Barcelona at the Razzmatazz club, which was an entirely splendid buzz. Playing to 2000 hyper Catalonians at 3.30 in the morning, it was so fckn snazzy, and we can’t wait to go back there. Personally speaking, what delighted me most about the gig was that a circle of death formed while the crowd was moshing. It’s something I’ve always wanted to see at a bonus party gig, and when it happened, I was touched. For those of you that don’t know what a circle of death is, it’s when a gap forms in the middle of a tightly packed frenzied crowd, and a few maniacs take turns running into the gap, hitting off each other, and acting like wild animals in general. When I was 16 I got concussion in one.

In other news, we’re delighted to announce that in the midst of all the writing and recording, we will be playing a handful of gigs over the summer:

10^th July – Club NME at the Button Factory with Cadence Weapon

1^st August – Mantua Festival, Co Roscommon

30^th August – Electric Picnic, at 1pm on the Electric Arena stage

Hope you can all come along! See you soon,

Super Extra Bonus Party

PS: Some members of the band will be doing solo dj sets around the place to fund their fabergé egg addictions or whateva. ch check it.

The Boners will be wrecking the gaff in Whelans on April 12th as part of Bud Rising. Ten euro blips in, tickets available from tickets.ie. If you were at the gig there recently, we’d very much like to see you again, so come down and go nuts!

Also, we are playing our first gigs out of Ireland next week! Wowzas! We’re in London on Friday 4th/5th April for gigs in Ginglik, Shepherd’s Bush and Hope & Anchor in Islington. On May 17th we  hit warmer climes for a gig in Razzmattazz in Barcelona.  We can’t wait to get this Bonus Party Juggernaut further into Europe!

Pheeeeew! An eventful couple of weeks in boner land then. This is a long one, you have been warned.

January saw a couple of hurried and flustered weeks waiting for vinyls, cds and life-size cut-outs of Tom Selleck to arrive and doing rehearsal sessions for what was to be our first proper tour.More…
This opened with an appearance at the Melting Pot night in Cypress Avenue, Cork. Despite the monitors blasting the living shit out of our ears and the carpetburn-induced bloodied knees, we had a ruddy good time, and thanks to Captain Moonlight (savage banter), Ol Dirty Chancer, Andy & Jimmy for the tunes, Sian, Barry and all the other mad punters that gave it a lash, and last but not least, Mark for putting the whole thing on - Big ups! A downside, on what was a funny old night, was the most cretinous caveman of a bouncer ever to drag his knuckles on the earth not letting Sarah (Gav’s 21 year-old missus) into the venue for the gig for lack of ID, despite the fact she drove loads of our equipment down to a city where she knows no-one. Not tonight my hole. Continue reading ‘Tour Diary - Blah Blah Blah’

The album is now available on iTunes and eMusic and other online digital download stores soon.