Stef Cybichowski
Was a pleasure to sit in for Mike Jones on One 2 Three today.
It was a good opportunity to pay tribute to Stef Cybichowsky, drummer with local band Breakforcover. I have been lucky enough to see Breakforcover perform several times in recent years and going back a year or two they appeared as guests on my previous show on Phoenix FM – Sunday Replay.
An evening spent in the company of Breakforcover is always entertaining, a truly great cover band who manage to play something for everyone and have a great time doing it. Their enthusiasm is infectious and usually spreads to the audience who invariably end up dancing, shouting and singing the night away. All the members of the band are excellent musicians but my attention is always drawn to Stef when I see them perform. Here is a drummer of excellent skill who always puts in 100% to his performance – made me tired just watching him. As I observe him, very often it seems that Stef goes into a different world to the rest of us when he is drumming – totally focussed on the music and his performance.
Now I was sad to hear the other day that after 14 years with the band Stef is leaving to concentrate on other things. His final gig with the band will be on Friday evening at The Swan in Hatfield Peveral. This really should be a special gig – don’t miss it.
I wish Stef all the best and hope he’s not giving up the drumming for good. As a small tribute I played Rosalie by Breakforcover today, and had a few words to say… Listen again here – https://www.mixcloud.com/bobsimpson391/breakforcover-stefs-last-gig-on-phoenix-fm/
Today’s show also featured a story about a drunken pig that had a fight with a cow…
A booze-pilfering drunken feral pig has caused chaos by running amok at an Australian campsite and starting a fight with a cow.
The belligerent porker went on a drunken bender after stealing and drinking three six-packs of beer that had been left out by campers at the DeGrey River campsite in Port Hedland, Australia.
In the predictable series of events that followed the animal went on to ransack rubbish bin bags to find some late-night snacks before starting a fight with an innocent eyewitness cow.
Following the boarish rampage the pig decided to swim out into the middle of a river before collapsing drunk under a tree and falling asleep.
One camper named Merida recounted the tale “It was in the middle of the night and it was these people camping opposite us and they heard this crunching of the can and they got their torch out and shone it on the pig and there he was scrunching away at their cans.”
“Then he went and raided their rubbish that they had sort of covered over with a bin as well.
“And then there was some other people camped right on the river and they saw him running around their vehicle being chased by a cow.
“It was going around and around and then it went into the river and swam across to the middle of the river.
“The people that were camped on the river went across and crept up on it and it was hiding and sleeping under a big log right on the edge of the water.”
Sounds like a standard night out in Romford to me!
