foilface music » latest uk songs http://www.foilface.com recent music ramblings from Manchester band Foilface Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:21:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Foilface – Music Matters http://www.foilface.com/foilface-music-matters/ http://www.foilface.com/foilface-music-matters/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:21:00 +0000 Bro. Jo Stern http://foilface.com/recent-music/?p=18 Last night heralded another highly successful Foilface night down the studio. We are now two tunes to the greater and things are progressing nicely.

The first of our new (as yet unfinished) tunes is, ‘Pill Drink’. A delighful ode to drinks that accompany the taking of medicine. In many ways it’s

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]]> Last night heralded another highly successful Foilface night down the studio. We are now two tunes to the greater and things are progressing nicely.

The first of our new (as yet unfinished) tunes is, ‘Pill Drink’. A delighful ode to drinks that accompany the taking of medicine. In many ways it’s the ballad of a disillusioned joe (‘no-one famous ever came from Milton Keynes… no good stories ever came from Stoke-on-Trent and no-one erotic ever came from East Kilbride’). Which begs the question – Is it a slacker rock mockery of the UK’s provincial towns? Answer – No, it’s a rambling stare at 21st century consumerism as it thrashes about burning on the floor, crying for help and spitting at unhelpful strangers as it draws it’s final breaths. Kind of.

The second tune (told you we’re prolific!) is (probably) called, ‘Last Bastions’. It’s another Foilface ‘wonky ballad’ and I like to think it’s an intergalactic love song involving space ravens (even though it’s not really). I say the words ballad and love song with gritted teeth as they instantly make me think of Celine Dion, Enrique Inglesias, Mariah Carey and all those other plastic-faced, doggerel wafting clowns. Either way it’s an ode to something beautiful and seemingly lost and it builds into a meaty mini-prog beast of a tune come the second half. Think Kings of Convenience meets early-Genesis and your three eighths of the way there.

Anyway, we’ve got lots of tunes in various stages of completion (plus some free ones available to download on this site) at the moment and the next task is mixing them and deciding on how we present things. A batch of 5-track EPs seems like a good idea. We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime remember ‘music matters‘…
]]> http://www.foilface.com/foilface-music-matters/feed/ 0 Latest UK Songs? http://www.foilface.com/latest-uk-songs/ http://www.foilface.com/latest-uk-songs/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:54:00 +0000 Bro. Jo Stern http://foilface.com/recent-music/?p=5 You’re unlikely to get any more ‘hot off the press’ music release action than Foilface.

We have been known to go into our Manchester studio, with no preparation (beyond a trip for generic essential supplies), then emerge an obscene amount of hours later with a finished tune – all mixed and

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We have been known to go into our Manchester studio, with no preparation (beyond a trip for generic essential supplies), then emerge an obscene amount of hours later with a finished tune – all mixed and everything – and bang it straight into the internet through the magic of the MP3… before even going to bed!

Eee, how times have changed, eh? It’s not like them olden days when the latest UK songs available were actually finished a while back, but had only just become physically existent in the world. I bet there weren’t many bands recording, producing and finishing a tune all in one night, then pressing a few thousand vinyls before going to bed…

That said, we’d be lying if we claimed they didn’t usually need the odd tweak in the cold light of day, but that’s a minor detail!

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