The Faux Fibbers

(formed 2015)
Nigel Knapp with first Jerry Wigens - but now Edmund Davie (joined 2024). Edmunds rhythmical electric guitar playing takes The Fibbers back to their earlier punk rock roots. Some have compared him to an early Wilko Johnson. Edmund has been teaching Nigel how to play proper blues harp and the accordion ! Nigel is trying to persuade  Edmund to join in with some backing vocals......

The Big Fibbers

Before that came THE BIG FIBBERS -  (2003- 2018)
A dancing fool who sings a bit and plays some strange wind instruments and a failed pantomime villain on acoustic guitar. They wrote songs about booze, madness, the ghosts of love, aliens, fish and even more booze.
One of the most energetic acts on the circuit – they played festivals and pub gigs all over the country every year since 2003.  Driven by Michael McDonough-Jones’ explosive and dynamic guitar playing, and M.R.L.P. Minister  for Blatant Lies,  front-man Nigel Knapp entertains any and every audience.
From the sublime to the ridiculous they fall somewhere between humour and despair with bits of mayhem and beauty thrown in for good measure.

Michael moved to Folkstone in about 2016 and a couple of years later formed The Beaux Fibbers with his partner Sarha and 3 other friends - yes a full band ! Check out - facebook.com/thebeauxfibbers

The Big Faux Fibbers

And then came THE BIG FAUX FIBBERS (formed 2017)
Nigel Knapp joined by both Michael McDonough-Jones and Jerry Wigens. Yes two guitarists! How rock’n roll is that? Very!
On the first day God created The Big Fibbers. On the second day God created The Faux Fibbers. On the third day God created THE BIG FAUX FIBBERS. Then She took the rest of the week off and had a bloody good party!

The Bigger Fibbers

And occasionally (when we can afford to) we go out as
THE BIGGER FIBBERS (first performed 2014)
Nigel  joined by whoever he can get hold of - all fantastic musicians playing guitars, electric/stand-up bass, percussion/drums, violin, euphonium and other strange horns and sometimes two girl backing singers – The Maiden Aren’ts

Fibbers - Band Members

Nigel Knapp

The Big Fibbers – The Bigger Fibbers – The Faux Fibbers

Vocals, swanee whistle, blues harp, accordion and other found objects.

Nigel Knapp formed his first band way back in 1983. Mr Jones & the Next Door Neighbours turned out to be quite a good punk band. Pity they were five years too late. After a year of rehearsals they got a gig in a dodgy Camden pub and they got their heads kicked in. The audience loved them! -Honest, it’s just the way people used to show their appreciation back then.

He spent the next two years in Europe, begging and busking. Honing his craft he called it. Bloody foreign hippies the locals called it.

Back in London he answers an ad for ‘a god damm crazy bonkers singer’ Zzub Zzub Buzz play surreal blues thrash – with cute bits. They form the Cucumber Liberation Front and become quite popular on the burgeoning Stoke Newington music scene. The band falls apart when the guitarist disappears to Ireland.

Nigel then joins The Loggerheads, a studio band mainly. The rest of the band don’t like performing which is what Nigel is really into. They produce a 12 inch single – Plan 9 From Outer Space -just before Nigel leaves.

He wants to perform and leap about and juggle vegetables. That opportunity comes with The Blatant lies Big Band. The B.L.B.B. aren’t a big band at all. That’s a blatant lie. There’s just two of them, Nigel and Grib. They do quite well and pull off a couple of West country tours. But Grib lives in Edinburgh and it all becomes a bit impossible.

In 2002 Nigel meets Michael Jones and The Big Fibbers come into being. They play pubs and festivals all over the UK. It gets to the point where The Big Fibbers can claim “We are big in Wales ” But then in 2018  Michael retires to the south coast. and The Big Fibbers fizzle out. S

So Nigel recruits a new guitarist – Jerry Wigens – and The Faux Fibbers are formed. The rest, as they say, is history.

As well as making music, Nigel’s also one of a rare breed – an honest politican! He stood in the last General Election as a member of The Monster Raving Loony Party. See here for more details – www.hackneyloonies.co.uk

Edmund Davie

The Faux Fibbers

Electric guitar