About

Fit and the Conniptions is a combined band / webcomic project by London based singer songwriter Wayne Myers. A studio album, Bless Your Heart, was released in July 2007, followed in November 2008 by an acoustic live EP Live At Monkey Chews. Wayne is currently working on the second studio album which he hopes to release early in 2009. Gig highlights from the year so far include memorable outings to Shunt, the Abbey Tavern and the Dublin Castle, as well as a couple of solo slots at Glastonbury.

Press / Media

  • Press Kit (pdf, 872K, updated November 2008)

Fit and the Conniptions tunes have been played on BBC Radio 6 Music and on internet radio stations including totallyradio.com and Radio Six International. Also there have been some reviews:

If you have played Fit and the Conniptions on the radio or written a review, good or bad, please let me know and I will add it here.

Band

While the CD was all my own fault and no-one else's, I have been fortunate enough to have played with some excellent live guest Conniptions since the beginning of this project including the following:

Apologies if you should be on the list but are not, also please let me know if you are on the list and there is a website I should be linking to here.

Comic Cast

Wayne

Wayne Wayne started playing piano at the age of five, and people have been trying to get him to stop ever since. As anyone who has ever worked with musicians knows, organising musicians is a lot like herding cats only harder, and as the cartoons make clear, Wayne has a great deal of difficulty organising himself let alone anyone else. How he ever managed to sort out any of the gigs he has played in the last year is a mystery to all involved, particularly him, and it is something of a miracle that he managed to get around to actually recording an album at all.


The Chicken

Chicken

The chicken lives on Wayne's head and takes the piss out of him a lot. That's in the cartoon. In real life the chicken is a lot more relaxed and spends a lot of time doing yoga and meditating. Currently in the middle of a third unpublished experimental novel, the chicken was hoping to appear on the album but had to pull out at the last minute due to a sore throat. It is hoped that things will be more serendipitous next time around.


H

H

H is a floating letter H who symbolises Hydrogen, the very excellent drum machine software used on the album. Perhaps not surprisingly, the Hydrogen people have been maintaining a strict radio silence on the subject. Wayne may or may not have posted a note about this project on the Hydrogen message board but didn't get any replies and then frankly forgot about the whole thing.

Duck And Bear

We don't know where they are going at the moment. TBC etc.

The Ants

The ants are, as ever, at the bottom of the page.