TeamHorseTales

For those of you who don't know me, I'm Geoff Topley and for many years I recorded music under various guises (Foam, Foamboy, The Foamboy Deluxe Arkestra, Cruz and Team Horse) and played probably a lot less gigs around Belfast than I could and should have. These blogs will feature some ramblings about my experiences either playing or watching gigs from back as far as I can remember. We're talking the halcyon days of the indie boom when you could find a local gig on in many of the city's venues. Nowadays it must be shite trying to be in a band with hardly anyone promoting and most of the venues I will blog about being long gone. I've often thought about writing a book but that's far too much effort, so I'm going to give this a go. I'll basically tell some tales as and when I remember things I think might be of interest. Don't expect anything too dramatic or salacious!  A bit of background first on my various attempts at super stardom. It all began bac...