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A Psychedelic Ponder

Look at the quizzical look on this small 1970′s child’s face. He isn’t questioning his haircut. Nor is he questioning the early emergence of a double chin. No, this child is pondering the phrase ‘Foilface’. Is it a state of mind? Or is is just a face covered in foil?

Five minutes after this photo was taken, the child realised he was asking the wrong questions. And many years later he just accepted the fact that Foilface was a part of his life, no matter how mysterious or vague that seemed.

Foilface is the psychedelic music that floats around inside his mind and occassionally escapes from his mouth ready to hook onto the beautiful music of others and create landscapes of sonic wonderment and babble. Foilface is the holy roasting of meats and the saviour of musical left-overs. A nonsense of wildly sensible proportions…

Broken Steeples

Another Foilface session came and went last night and another tune is in the can (but for the sake of a sensible polish). What fun this Saturday recording malarky is. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of it. It certainly beats being squeezed into a bar somewhere, eating twiglets and sucking in my gut as I wink at ladies and pretend to be interesting to strangers.

Our latest opus is called ‘We are the Broken Steeples’ (or maybe just ‘Broken Steeples’ as it sounds a bit less like something a cheesy 1970′s country and western band from Newcastle might holler as they step onto the stage of a spit and sawdust pub in Rochdale). After 20 or so listens it sounds a bit like Odelay-era Beck meets Gruff Rhys’ solo stuff to me but it’s tricky to pin down. The words sinister and perky spring to mind. Maybe we’ve created a new genre – ‘Sinister-Perk’.

Anyway, at some point over the next few months you’ll get the chance to hear it on this site if you fancy (there’s already a couple of tunes on our mp3 page if your curious and fancy some free Manchester music for your ipod).