Here are 64 reasons why there won’t be any new music 2 download from this Manchester band during the next month or so (don’t say we never give you anything useful on this blog).
11 Jun 15:00 South Africa v Mexico (Grp A) Johannesburg 11 Jun 19:30 Uruguay v France (Grp A) Cape Town
12 Jun 12:30 South Korea v Greece (Grp B) Nelson Mandela Bay 12 Jun 15:00 Argentina v Nigeria (Grp B) Johannesburg 12 Jun 19:30 England v USA (Grp C) Rustenburg
13 Jun 12:30 Algeria v Slovenia (Grp C) Polokwane 13 Jun 15:00 Serbia v Ghana (Grp D) Pretoria 13 Jun 19:30 Germany v Australia (Grp D) Durban
14 Jun 12:30 Netherlands v Denmark (Grp E) Johannesburg 14 Jun 15:00 Japan v Cameroon (Grp E) Mangaung 14 Jun 19:30 Italy v Paraguay (Grp F) Cape Town
15 Jun 12:30 New Zealand v Slovakia (Grp F) Rustenburg 15 Jun 15:00 Côte d’Ivoire v Portugal (Grp G) Nelson Mandela Bay 15 Jun 19:30 Brazil v North Korea (Grp G) Johannesburg
16 Jun 12:30 Honduras v Chile (Grp H) Nelspruit 16 Jun 15:00 Spain v Switzerland (Grp H) Durban 16 Jun 19:30 South Africa v Uruguay (Grp A) Pretoria
17 Jun 12:30 Argentina v South Korea (Grp B) Johannesburg 17 Jun 15:00 Greece v Nigeria (Grp B) Mangaung 17 Jun 19:30 France v Mexico (Grp A) Polokwane
18 Jun 12:30 Germany v Serbia (Grp D) Nelson Mandela Bay 18 Jun 15:00 Slovenia v USA (Grp C) Johannesburg 18 Jun 19:30 England v Algeria (Grp C) Cape Town
19 Jun 12:30 Netherlands v Japan (Grp E) Durban 19 Jun 15:00 Ghana v Australia (Grp D) Rustenburg 19 Jun 19:30 Cameroon v Denmark (Grp E) Pretoria
20 Jun 12:30 Slovakia v Paraguay (Grp F) Mangaung 20 Jun 15:00 Italy v New Zealand (Grp F) Nelspruit 20 Jun 19:30 Brazil v Côte d’Ivoire (Grp G) Johannesburg
21 Jun 12:30 Portugal v North Korea (Grp G) Cape Town 21 Jun 15:00 Chile Switzerland (Grp H) Nelson Mandela Bay 21 Jun 19:30 Spain v Honduras (Grp H) Johannesburg
22 Jun 15:00 Mexico v Uruguay (Grp A) Rustenburg 22 Jun 15:00 France v South Africa (Grp A) Mangaung 22 Jun 19:30 Nigeria v South Korea (Grp B) Durban 22 Jun 19:30 Greece v Argentina (Grp B) Polokwane
23 Jun 15:00 Slovenia v England (Grp C) Nelson Mandela Bay 23 Jun 15:00 USA v Algeria (Grp C) Pretoria 23 Jun 19:30 Ghana v Germany (Grp D) Johannesburg 23 Jun 19:30 Australia v Serbia (Grp D) Nelspruit
24 Jun 15:00 Slovakia v Italy (Grp F) Johannesburg 24 Jun 15:00 Paraguay v New Zealand (Grp F) Polokwane 24 Jun 19:30 Denmark v Japan (Grp E) Rustenburg 24 Jun 19:30 Cameroon v Netherlands (Grp E) Cape Town
25 Jun 15:00 Portugal v Brazil (Grp G) Durban 25 Jun 15:00 North Korea v Côte d’Ivoire (Grp G) Nelspruit 25 Jun 19:30 Chile v Spain (Grp H) Pretoria 25 Jun 19:30 Switzerland v Honduras (Grp H) Mangaung
26 Jun 15:00 Uruguay v S Korea (1 L16) Nelson Mandela Bay 26 Jun 19:30 USA v Ghana (2 L16) Rustenburg
27 Jun 15:00 Germany v England (3 L16) Mangaung 27 Jun 19:30 Argentina v Mexico (4 L16) Johannesburg
28 Jun 15:00 Netherlands v Slovakia (5 L16) Durban 28 Jun 19:30 Brazil v Chile (6 L16) Johannesburg
29 Jun 15:00 Paraguay v Japan(7 L16) Pretoria 29 Jun 19:30 Spain v Portugal (8 L16) Cape Town
2 Jul 15:00 Netherlands v Brazil (C QF) Nelson Mandela Bay 2 Jul 19:30 Uruguay v Ghana (A QF) Johannesburg
3 Jul 15:00 Argentina v Germany (B QF) Cape Town 3 Jul 19:30 Paraguay v Spain (D QF) Johannesburg
6 Jul 19:30 A v C (I SF) Cape Town
7 Jul 19:30 B v D (II SF) Durban
10 Jul 19:30 Loser I v Loser II (3rd place) Nelson Mandela Bay
11 Jul 19:30 Winner I v Winner II (FINAL) Johannesburg
We love hearing your opinions about Foilface – good or bad. And just to prove it, read this – it’s badder than a stabbing on the way home from a cancer diagnosis, yet we enjoyed it all the same:
“Where do I start? Foilface are Smile Like Fools, without the youth, wit, charm, and excellent songs. The mixes are awful, a silly lo-fi mish mash of mostly symbols and the old kitchen sink mentality. If you are aiming at an international market, you need clarity, and you dont have it here. Everything is up in the mix. Your ace card has to be the vocals, and these vocals are very poor, and in my opinion, badly double tracked to hide the lack of any real feel, and therefor the message is lost. However clever lyrically it is, they are lost on the average lead vocal. Pop is supposed to be fun, not complicated ‘clever’ arrangements. You need to focus on where you want to take this, and find a better singer. Who is your audience? Who would buy a 100,000 copies? Forget the 50 songs, and write a bliding hit simple wonderful 3 chord wonder in two and a half mins!”
This latest Foilface review comes courtesy of a highly prolific and in-touch music promoter calling himself ‘Mickey Modern‘, who you’ve no doubt heard of. We thank him kindly for taking time out of his busy schedule to listen to and review our new music.
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Another month (of a new year, in a new decade) and Foilface have been back in the studio concocting some new slacker rock sounds that will eventually be available for your discerning ears. We promise you that a whole heap of these tunes will be mixed and downloadable for public consumption at some point soon (the clue to our tardiness dear readers is in the genre flagging above), but in the meantime absorb yourself in the mere theoretical sounds our electrified minds have been creating.
Silent Fishnets is a journey into the darkened and car key swopping entrails of a high society, rich suburbanite party. All software millionnaires, oyster moist call girls, cocaine cougars and twisted evangelists. In part it licks from the same dog bowl as the 1989 film Society. The film is a bizarre, Lovecraftian spoof on the American upper classes, and if you haven’t seen it is well worth a watch – it will bend your head… and your guts.
The tune mixes that idea jism with glam rock, japanese manga hollering, Doors-ian lounge fuckery and a fistful of peanut M&Ms. Will it make the final cut of our (hopefully soon to be released) debut album? Stay tuned. Tunes are coming soooooon……..
If you type new music into Google, you’ll probably get exactly what you’re looking for. But I’m half way through a smoke-and-brew-ponder, and I’m mulling over just exactly what deserves to be labelled with this term.
To anyone with an eye on the latest uk releases, it won’t have gone unnoticed that many record companies now seem to crap themselves if a band tries to do anything that sounds notably different to their last successful single – instead favouring the production of ‘new’ material to follow some sort of recipe, resulting in each new release sounding remarkably like the last one (I won’t start naming and shaming – I’ll be here all day).
Luckily for Foilface, we only release the tunes we like, when and how we want by doing it ourselves – like so many other successful bands do nowadays – so we’re not beholden to fat dickheads who would only ever pay any attention to their artists’ lyrics if they contained phrases like “commercial viability” or “loyalty purchasing”. We like to think that this is reflected in our genuinely new music – ie. the tracks can actually be distinguished from one another when you’re listening from a distance.
Our new EP, Jean-Claude Naive, is a great example – feel free to disagree, of course. All opinions are very welcome here.
Sore throat? Excessive coughing? Shortness of breath? Headache? Chills? Loss of appetite? Feverish?
If you’re suffering from all of the above the chances are you need a bit of Foilface in your life. Bookmark this page and get ready for news on how you can get hold of the ‘soon to be released’ six track EP, Jean-Claude Naive for FREE.
If you’re on the hunt for new music that’s got a bit more snot than the usual dry-nosed bollocks you’re tired of listening to, have a pre-release listen to the new stuff here and enjoy. The revolution is almost upon us.
Last night heralded another top session down the Foilface bunker. Vocals were laid down for a new tune called, “A Fine Bromance” (think Field Music meets Polytechnic via Built To Spill and you’re nine fifteenths of the way there) and a entirely new song was created from scratch called, “Like a Buffalo” (or maybe “The Proviso”). The latter tune is a pretty hard one to describe – the closest I can come up with is, The Beta Band meets The Flying Pickets via Folk Implosion – so mush that into a mental sonic meatball and digest.
In other Foilface news, the band are now just a few weeks away from a release date for the first EP, Jean-Claude Naive. The website is about to be updated and wonkified and the EP artwork is in production. Bookmark this page in your favourites and you’ll be the first to find out when it’s released (and you can find out how to download it for FREE). That’s FREE music to download and it don’t get better than that…
Paul Higham has just completed this incredibly good timeline video project. If you like great timeline videos and great music, then the chances are you’ll think this is great!
Okay, just for a minute I need to stop banging on about the amazing, awesome free MP3 downloads of new recent music by Foilface. Did we mention Foilface?
This week, I have mostly been listening to some sonic mind treats in the form of Tokyo2005‘s new free uk music downloads. If you don’t listen to anything else this week, then definitely listen to these fine new UK sounds. Tokyo2005 is the sort of emotionally engaging music that will lift your soul and make you think you can do stuff that you clearly can’t, but will enjoy believing that you can for a few dreamy moments of ‘mind MTV’.
There.
So anyway, there’s this ace new Manchester band called Foilface, right, and…
One of the potential contenders for album opener on the forthcoming (as yet unnamed) Foilface CD is a tune called, ‘Pantry’ (or maybe, ‘Do the Outburst’) we recorded in a drunken haze a few months ago.
It’s basically a vaguely surreal David Icke-like take on 60′s garage rock and has a mildly modish feel to it (and some lovely keyboards too).
The opening rant, “Bring out the sinners, they are nothing but lizards, they bring you down to their tables at breakfast time and make you sit through their prayers”, could be interpreted in a number of ways. Are we really part of a world governed by huge shape-shifting reptilians? Or do the lizards represent the archaic elements of western society the protagonist wants to rebel against? Probably neither if the truth be told but it’s a poser.
The song also goes on to label everyone on earth ‘molluscs’ and ‘war wounds’, which as well as potentially tipping an ironic hat to Darwin and Dawkins could just as easily be a lovely little burst of surrealist-babble.
You’ll get to hear it at some point if you stay tuned to these regular updates from the official udders of Manchester’s new musical cow, Foilface. The place where UK slacker rock, meets mexican-psyche-seaside-folk and fights it to the death (or at least till someone cries a bit)… Don’t be a stranger…
A surprising amount of people say to us, “Do you know something, Foilface, recent music truly is bobbins.”
As the conversation unfolds, it usually transpires that these folk have been listening to the pap-pedalling mainstream radio stations so much, that their ears have started morphing into small fluffy animals in a Darwin-esque attempt to preserve the brain from “pop rot”.
It’s true; if you want to immerse yourself in rubbish new music, it’s a far easier goal than slipping out a number two these days (with astonishingly similar results). But, for those among us who actively seek out great new tunes, rather than getting subconsciously angered by enduring the 600th journey round an old geezer’s wedding favourites, the age of ones and zeros has opened up many strange and wonderful avenues to explore amazing new sounds.
We like to think that the free mp3s of recent music by Foilface demonstrates this point rather well. It’s not going to be to everyone’s taste (Steve Wright, for example?) but it is offered for free, with good intent and no catches, so give your ears a treat and let us know what your brain reckons!
Here are 64 reasons why there won’t be any new music 2 download from this Manchester band during the next month or so (don’t say we never give you anything useful on this blog).
