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I've seen him in and about Bristol now and then. Saw him at Los Campesinos! and Future Of The Left and as the lead singer of FOTL states "he's a fu**ing ball of kinetic energy!"

I remember seeing him at Million Dead and he got a free t-shirt just for being amazing. every band i have seen when he has been there are in really good moods because someone is dancing to there music.

I heard he manages a band now. cant remember the name. and he was on German TV once.
Legend!!

I'd seen that Wave Pictures gig. My favourite is always when it's a band's first Jeffro encounter and they don't know quite what to make of him...

Some classic moves in this KC video cameo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTvZcr3gM00

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but as time goes on he gets very annoying and distracting. Just this Sunday I went to see my friend play at Start the Bus, got set up in a decent seated position (was an acoustic act early on the bill) and he decides to stand right in my line of sight and do some dance for the whole set.

Can't fault his enthusiasm and dedication, just find him a bit annoying/distracting.

when he'd do that at the front of our gigs, then I learned to love the big monster. Jeff is the ledge.

We have played 5 Bristol shows, and he has been at 3. Its like the other two didnt actually happen.

i don't know, i find his indiscriminate enthusiasm to be pretty annoying. plus he elbowed me several times at ponytail :(

at mercury rev / howling bells last november at the Academy. Tallish with long hair ?

He spends as much time looking at the audience around him hoping for acknowledgment, as he does watching the band.
He has no spacial awareness and is incredibly rude.
He wears a t-shirt which says "Big Jeff Loves Music".
He totally buys into his own 'local-legend' status.

Typical 'kerrrazy' type. Yuck. Annoying.

begins in earnest...

all the time, it's nice to have someone who doesn't just stand there staring at you for your whole set.

someone with the same face, but no hair that used to be at the front of gigs in bristol when i was in school there, in like 1996, i always wonder if it is the same man.

but it is now my sole aim in life to play a gig in Bristol in which he attends

But he can get a bit annoying. My mate's band asked him to go to the side at their last ever gig because they wanted other people to be able to dance/ see the stage.

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It's not a Bristol gig if Jeff doesn't turn up.

who think they've got a diehard fan on their hands, but I've seen him barge small girls out of the way on numerous occasions (probably accidentally, admittedly), plus there's unquestionably a note of ego to it all.

Has anybody seen him performing his own music? Genuinely frightening.

...and it's great to see such enthusiasm.
As mentioned, he can be a little annoying if he's in your line of sight, or spraying you with his sweat, and I have asked hime nicely to move to one side in the Loui.
My only problem with him is that I think over the last 2-3 years he's started to play up to his reputation...whereas before it was all natural, now it seems a little forced at times...he seems to look around to make sure people are watching him...but I may be wrong.
Other than that I can't see why anyone would have a problem with the guy...he's really very sweet & naive, and just loves music...and is one of the more recognisable music nerds in Brizzle along with Leigh, Graeme, Beardy Man, and Two Pints Dave...all of whom will happily chat & recommend upcoming gigs

who the fuck is that knob-end ruining the gig for all around him.

i hate jeff. i always have done and always will do. but my less than friendly disposition towards that monstrosity of man reached a head when i went to the last day of glastonbury last year with the sole intention of seeing my all-time idol and personal god leonard cohen. i got there while goldfrapp were still playing, ready to swarm in when the dishwater fans swarmed out - it was a big operation, and a moderate success; i managed to get in at about the second or third row from the front. there was just one thing in my way. one thing blocking my view of the greatest poet in music. one thing in the way of me and what could have been the defining moment of my LIFE (i'm being melodramatic to make a point here). jeff. right there. dancing like a twat to famous blue raincoat (i didn't even think that was possible). and so it WAS a defining moment of my life. it summed it up better than anything could have. me, struggling to glimpse glory. jeff, in front, basking in it. the bastard.

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at the junction in bristol aaaagesss ago, he freaked us out when we first met him, we warmed to him by the end...

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pretty sound guy but i can see why people would find him annoying. i remember watching trail of dead couple of years ago at the thekla from the balcony and just seeing jeff at the front causing general irritation.

how on earth does he afford to go to everything? i can't tell whether he's got amazing taste or is just really indiscriminate. he is incredibly annoying and distracting though, especially when the band isn't even close to being apt for jumping up and down on the spot for.

Then a few months later I stumbled across his myspace and I thought "woah, that's a weird coincidence, it's that guy that was speaking to me at BD"

The following summer I was walking past the Other stage at Glasto and his bobbing head was plastered across the big screens. By now I was getting a tad freaked out that I kept seeing this guy everywhere I went.

My breaking point was when I turned on my television some time later and his face was there too (he was an extra on something...skins I think).

I decided to actively find out what the hell was going on and who this guy was, because I actually considered the idea that I might have fictitiously conjured up some sort of weird alter ego that was following me around and I'd be locked in a Fight Club-style, Tyler Durdan, skitzo existence for the rest of my days...

Now I know it's just Jeff.

there were more people like big jeff at gigs

but Jeff himself has kind of told the story in a semi-autobiographical way, so I guess it's OK to share:

http://bigjeff-thecrone.blogspot.com/

but distracting

his enthusiasm for everything music related is boundless!
he also put us up at his house once when we were stuck in bristol.

i believe he has some kind of rap project. would love to hear that.

Big Jeff blags some gigs by asking the bands if he can go on the guestlist. There's nothing the promoters can do about it. So the people who pay to see a band often get their view obstructed and are inhibited to the degree that there's a 'Big Jeff exclusion zone'. Other people don't dance when he's at the front unless they want to risk an elbow to the head. He does seem to believe his own publicity hence the constant looking round to see if he's been noticed 'having a great time'. Whilst his enthusiasm is commendable, he drives an awful lot of people round the bend. If he contributed more i.e.paid to get into gigs, bought the band's music, hell even bought a drink at the venues, then people may get less irked.

I saw dananananaykroyd supporting foals, and the lead singer from danana climbed into the crowd and kissed him on the forehead.
Also me and my mate saw him walkin up gloucester road air drumming. We said hello. He gave us strange looks and kept air drumming.

He seems like a nice chap. He sometimes wears a Monster Magnet t-shirt. And Malcolm Middleton described him as a human metronome.