World Cup Fixtures 2010

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

“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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Do you agree? Is Mickey on the money? Obviously anyone buying 100,000 copies would be quite stupid when all our music is available to download for free, but what about the other points?

Send us your review of our recent music and we’ll publish it here for the world to feast upon.

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……..

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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!