03
Sep
Daddy Long Legs & Bob Log III live at The Night Owl
The Night Owl, Lower Trinity Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 4AG
03 Sep 2025
| Doors open: 8:00 PM
Wednesday 3rd September
The Night Owl proudly presents...
DADDY LONG LEGS!
Plus special guest support BOB LOG III
Street Sermons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH67Fvg563Q&t=9s
Pink Lemonade - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2QKbStzjsw
Lowdown Ways - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvrcRAIh5b0
New York City's most diabolical rhythm and blues street gang aren't back, they never left. In dark times, DADDY LONG LEGS continue to shine their light everywhere they go, leaving a piece of themselves on stage every night because it's in them and it's got to come out.
Now the sharp-dressed trio-turned-quartet make their post-pandemic return to the studio to present their latest LP: Street Sermons (Yep Roc, 2023). An album of the times, for the times, by a band of the people. Written and recorded against a backdrop of political tension, riots in the streets and a deeply uncertain future, these 12 new tracks are a testament to triumph over adversity.
In the first moments of Street Sermons, DADDY LONG LEGS beseech their troubled congregation to "Work with one another/Not against each other" as the Brooklyn band evolve into a chain gang that sounds like they're emanating through the cracks of a hot and sticky subway station.
During the depths of the lockdown, frontman/harpman Brian Hurd experienced a terrifying dream and awoke in a cold sweat. To exorcise the terror he immediately scribbled down his memories of the dream that became the album's first single, "Nightmare," a scream-worthy rocker about dealing with a world gone wrong: "We're livin' a nightmare and this world is condemned; I'll see you if this nightmare ever ends."
Meanwhile! "Rockin' My Boogie" lets the listener know that when it's our time to go, DADDY LONG LEGS will be the band leading the funeral parade. "Harmonica Razor" is a dangerous rhythm and blues instrumental which shows off Hurd's prowess on the instrument, and "Star" proves guitarist Murat Aktürk and drummer Josh Styles can cool things down and deliver a country blues ballad of the highest order when the time calls for it.
DADDY LONG LEGS fled the madness of the city to record Street Sermons at Old Soul Studios in Catskill, NY with Oakley Munson (Black Lips/Nude Party) producing and stepping in on organ and piano. The LP also features some guest appearances from John Sebastian (Lovin' Spoonful) and Wreckless Eric of "Whole Wide World" fame.
Over the last decade these gentlemen have burned down houses the world over with their explosive fire ceremony and have amassed a cult-like following all their own with a tough to beat reputation for being one of the finest live acts on the road today.
The boys recently returned from their first tours in Australia and New Zealand and their previous album, Lowdown Ways (Yep Roc, 2019), reached #4 on the Billboard Blues Chart. The band has received high praise from Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke, who calls DADDY LONG LEGS' sound "Chicago blues fired at the moon played by the demented children of the Pretty Things."
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"And then there's this guy named Bob Log, you ever heard of him? He's this little kid - nobody ever knows how old he is - wears a motorcycle helmet and he has a microphone inside of it and he puts the glass over the front so you can't see his face, and plays slide guitar. It's just the loudest, strangest stuff you've ever heard. You don't understand one word he's saying. I like people who glue macaroni on to a piece of cardboard and paint it gold. That's what I aspire to basically" - Tom Waits
Bump Pow! https://youtu.be/HSy0HUbh48U
Shake The Boot https://youtu.be/EMoIbua-Ids
Bob Log III, Fat Possum recording artist and one man band crown prince of punk blues from Tuscon, Arizona. Witnessing Bob Log live is an unmissable and unforgettable experience. By rights he should be a punk blues stadium super star. He takes to the stage with his face masked in a crash helmet with a black visor and a telephone wired in it for a mic and wearing a blue jump suit. Bob then unleashes a torrent of hardcore Mississippi Delta blues, hip hop beats and punk rock. The crash helmet telephone distorts the vocals and his hands, arms, legs and feet become a blur of jump suit clad limbs as he plays slide, triggers drum machines and drums with his feet simultaneously.
Bob Log's identity and history is shrouded in mystery and rumour, probably helped by his stage get up and also when his record company Fat Possum put out an early press release claiming Log had a monkey's paw grafted on to his wrist after a boating accident as a child. Here's an excerpt....."When Bob Log III was a child, he lost his left hand in a boating accident. It was soon replaced with a monkey paw, and a new guitar style was born. 'It's my own personal style, see,' Log says, 'the paw moves much quicker than a normal hand, so my real hand has to flop around a lot to compensate.'" When asked to explain Fat Possum's insistence that his right hand is a monkey's paw, Log replied to an interviewer that, "My hand is just hairy. Very, very hairy. It is NOT a PAW. Fat Possum was drunk." Log further clarified the monkey paw myth in an interview with Bizarre Magazine: "I've got all my limbs. It's just that when I'm playing my guitar my hand moves so fast it looks like a monkey paw, a hairy paw. My hand moves really fast. Faster than a normal human hand"
In this current world of homogenised and mass marketed music, we need true mavericks like Bob Log III more than ever.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xK5OqvQKGC1nNtl2pIbwX
Tickets from £15 / more on the door
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Wednesday 3rd September
The Night Owl proudly presents...
DADDY LONG LEGS!
Plus special guest support BOB LOG III
Street Sermons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH67Fvg563Q&t=9s
Pink Lemonade - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2QKbStzjsw
Lowdown Ways - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvrcRAIh5b0
New York City's most diabolical rhythm and blues street gang aren't back, they never left. In dark times, DADDY LONG LEGS continue to shine their light everywhere they go, leaving a piece of themselves on stage every night because it's in them and it's got to come out.
Now the sharp-dressed trio-turned-quartet make their post-pandemic return to the studio to present their latest LP: Street Sermons (Yep Roc, 2023). An album of the times, for the times, by a band of the people. Written and recorded against a backdrop of political tension, riots in the streets and a deeply uncertain future, these 12 new tracks are a testament to triumph over adversity.
In the first moments of Street Sermons, DADDY LONG LEGS beseech their troubled congregation to "Work with one another/Not against each other" as the Brooklyn band evolve into a chain gang that sounds like they're emanating through the cracks of a hot and sticky subway station.
During the depths of the lockdown, frontman/harpman Brian Hurd experienced a terrifying dream and awoke in a cold sweat. To exorcise the terror he immediately scribbled down his memories of the dream that became the album's first single, "Nightmare," a scream-worthy rocker about dealing with a world gone wrong: "We're livin' a nightmare and this world is condemned; I'll see you if this nightmare ever ends."
Meanwhile! "Rockin' My Boogie" lets the listener know that when it's our time to go, DADDY LONG LEGS will be the band leading the funeral parade. "Harmonica Razor" is a dangerous rhythm and blues instrumental which shows off Hurd's prowess on the instrument, and "Star" proves guitarist Murat Aktürk and drummer Josh Styles can cool things down and deliver a country blues ballad of the highest order when the time calls for it.
DADDY LONG LEGS fled the madness of the city to record Street Sermons at Old Soul Studios in Catskill, NY with Oakley Munson (Black Lips/Nude Party) producing and stepping in on organ and piano. The LP also features some guest appearances from John Sebastian (Lovin' Spoonful) and Wreckless Eric of "Whole Wide World" fame.
Over the last decade these gentlemen have burned down houses the world over with their explosive fire ceremony and have amassed a cult-like following all their own with a tough to beat reputation for being one of the finest live acts on the road today.
The boys recently returned from their first tours in Australia and New Zealand and their previous album, Lowdown Ways (Yep Roc, 2019), reached #4 on the Billboard Blues Chart. The band has received high praise from Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke, who calls DADDY LONG LEGS' sound "Chicago blues fired at the moon played by the demented children of the Pretty Things."
-------
"And then there's this guy named Bob Log, you ever heard of him? He's this little kid - nobody ever knows how old he is - wears a motorcycle helmet and he has a microphone inside of it and he puts the glass over the front so you can't see his face, and plays slide guitar. It's just the loudest, strangest stuff you've ever heard. You don't understand one word he's saying. I like people who glue macaroni on to a piece of cardboard and paint it gold. That's what I aspire to basically" - Tom Waits
Bump Pow! https://youtu.be/HSy0HUbh48U
Shake The Boot https://youtu.be/EMoIbua-Ids
Bob Log III, Fat Possum recording artist and one man band crown prince of punk blues from Tuscon, Arizona. Witnessing Bob Log live is an unmissable and unforgettable experience. By rights he should be a punk blues stadium super star. He takes to the stage with his face masked in a crash helmet with a black visor and a telephone wired in it for a mic and wearing a blue jump suit. Bob then unleashes a torrent of hardcore Mississippi Delta blues, hip hop beats and punk rock. The crash helmet telephone distorts the vocals and his hands, arms, legs and feet become a blur of jump suit clad limbs as he plays slide, triggers drum machines and drums with his feet simultaneously.
Bob Log's identity and history is shrouded in mystery and rumour, probably helped by his stage get up and also when his record company Fat Possum put out an early press release claiming Log had a monkey's paw grafted on to his wrist after a boating accident as a child. Here's an excerpt....."When Bob Log III was a child, he lost his left hand in a boating accident. It was soon replaced with a monkey paw, and a new guitar style was born. 'It's my own personal style, see,' Log says, 'the paw moves much quicker than a normal hand, so my real hand has to flop around a lot to compensate.'" When asked to explain Fat Possum's insistence that his right hand is a monkey's paw, Log replied to an interviewer that, "My hand is just hairy. Very, very hairy. It is NOT a PAW. Fat Possum was drunk." Log further clarified the monkey paw myth in an interview with Bizarre Magazine: "I've got all my limbs. It's just that when I'm playing my guitar my hand moves so fast it looks like a monkey paw, a hairy paw. My hand moves really fast. Faster than a normal human hand"
In this current world of homogenised and mass marketed music, we need true mavericks like Bob Log III more than ever.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xK5OqvQKGC1nNtl2pIbwX
Tickets from £15 / more on the door
