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BayFest gossip abounds and GoatGate 2008

Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! BayFest never disappoints on the gossip front. I got all kinds of good stuff from plates o’ sugarcane to “Rock of Love” skanks! And there’s all sorts of other weird stuff going on in this city too, including things involving Popeye’s chicken and prostitution and goats and toilets. Oh yes, my friends, we really live in, as Eugene Walter once put it, “sweet lunacy’s county seat.” So without further ado, let’s kick off GossipFest 2008.

Biodegradable Candlebox

Seattle rockers Candlebox rolled into town the night before BayFest, and we guess they needed a little rehearsing or something because they headed over to Royal Street watering hole Veet’s and jammed with Doug Previto and the Family Jewels, according to one of our lovely Veet’s spies. The guitar player had such a good time, he came back after their show Friday night.

In other Candlebox news, my BayFest spy reported that most of the bands’ riders (which request things they want or need backstage, etc) definitely showed a concern for the environment, as most of them asked for no Styrofoam products and for other environmentally friendly products, but Candlebox took it to another level.

They requested cups and cutlery made from corn and biodegradable plates made from sugarcane. They also wanted “special towels” and no preservatives in their foods.

Maybe they should just eat their plates – they sound delicious.

Kid Rock of Love

I guess Bret Michaels of ‘80s band Poison and VH-1’s “Rock of Love” fame was in our neck of the woods Saturday night because he pulled his “Rock of Love” tour bus right up behind the Pepsi stage and caught the Kid Rock show with two unidentified skanks. Well, we are not for sure they were skanks, but I mean, they are hanging out with Bret Michaels, who only seems to hang out with said skanks on his show, which, of course, is why it is just about the best guilty pleasure on TV these days.

Anyway, my backstage spy met Bret and said he smelled “very clean.” She also said he seemed to be hanging out more with the less skanky of the skanks.

My spy also said there were no cameras around, so she didn’t think this was for the next season of “Rock of Love.” But, “Big John,” his now famous bodyguard, who keeps Bret away from scrapping strippers and wind gusts, was also in attendance.

We hope they enjoyed their Port City stop.

Michaels will be playing at the Pensacola Fair October 24, if you would like to smell his cleanliness for yourself. Although it will probably be mixed with cow manure- hey it’s the fair!

More than a peek

We’re sure local band Peek would like to thank the “staff” traveling with Kid Rock for their awesome picture on the front page of the Press-Register. Our little birdies tell us the P-R had the front page all set up and ready to pop in a picture of Mr. Rock, who did bring in one of the largest, if not, the largest crowd in BayFest history. Anyway, apparently he did not want his picture taken, and his guys stood in front of P-R photographer Victor Calhoun and put their hands in front of his camera. So Peek got the spot. We say, good for them!

Break dancing

I got a text message to Boozie’s red phone at 3 a.m. saying the Pepsi VIP side stage had collapsed Friday night sending people to the hospital. Upon further investigation, I was told someone just fell off the stage – allegedly due to a bear hug of some sort. One arm was broken.

Just asking…

Which high-ranking law enforcement official’s kid was allegedly caught opening up one of the BayFest gates and letting he and about 20 of his friends inside the festival without tickets?

We hear junior was caught in the act by a BayFest official, and he immediately pulled the “do you know who my daddy is?” routine. Apparently calls were made and the “daddy” asked the officials to let them in.

Twenty different kids would probably be sitting in daddy’s jail, dontcha think?

GoatGate 2008

The city is trying to bring a peaceful end to the neighborhood battle in Cypress Shores between a lady, who because of conflicting laws, is currently being allowed to keep goats and chickens in her yard, and the rest of the neighbors in her residential neighborhood.

She had also “decorated” her yard with painted tires and tacky ceramic kitties and pigs, which neighbors say she only did to get back at them for complaining about the livestock.

In the last week, the situation has escalated. The lady was arrested for reckless endangerment, which I was able to confirm. The neighbors say it was for chasing one of the other neighbors down to their child’s daycare, while screaming expletives at the neighbor and her child. The neighbors also say she has added painted toilets with each of the neighbor’s names painted on them to her yard “decorations.” Supposedly, Mayor Jones paid a visit to the farm this weekend in a covertible and looked at the display. Let’s hope he helped put an end to GoatGate 2008.

What happened was…

A gentleman applying for a taxi cab license at city council last week was denied for having several questionable offenses on his record that, let’s just say, you would not want a taxi cab driver to have—one of which was apparently soliciting prostitution.

The man, dressed in a gold jacket, came down to city council to tell his side of the story. You see, what happened was, he had just gone to Popeye’s and gotten and bucket of chicken to eat in Washington Square in Oakleigh, while he was waiting on his car to get out of a body shop on Broad Street or something like that. That detail doesn’t really matter, though he belabored it in his stream of consciousness discussion.

Anyway, after finishing off his chicken and I guess getting his car back, he saw a “woman drenched with sweat” walking on or around Augusta street, which oddly he claimed was named after him.

He said she looked like she needed assistance so he was trying to help her, because being in the transportation industry, that’s what he does. He says she told him the going rate was $30 without him asking her anything. There seems to be some dispute about this.Anyway, he was arrested and was very disturbed the officers poured out a half gallon of vodka his friends had given him.

They poured it “like a fountain,” he lamented.

He was also disturbed they put him in the back of a police car with no air-conditioning. Oh the humanity!

Needless to say, the gentleman will not be taxiing us to Popeye’s anytime soon.

Well kids. That’s all I got for now. If you’ve got any other BayFest gossip, send it to me. It’s so good, it never gets old. And just remember, whether rain or shine, dramatic or scandalous, or just some plain ol’ Rock of Lovin’, I will be there. Ciao!

Boozie Beer Nues is Lagniappe social butterfly. Contact her at boozie@lagniappemobile.com.

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