By Bro. Jo Stern, on March 9th, 2009
I totally understand how annoying social networking sites like Facebook can be. And as for all the applications – stuff like software that makes your nose wiggle on photos, people sending pictures of fruit-baskets to each other and setting up Lorraine Kelly Fan Groups – do people really need that kind of fluff in their lives?
That said, I have recently witnessed a mildly amusing new idea/trend on Facebook, namely the instant-fictional-album-cover fad. For those not in the know, you pick a random wikepedia page heading to use a your band name, then a random quote from a quotes website (the last four or five words generally). Then hop onto a photo hosting site like flickr and pick the first photo you stumble across. Piece them together in something like Photoshop and hey presto – fictional album cover
It’s utter bobbins but mildly amusing (and kind of eerie) as my example here shows. That said, it really is much better to actually make a real album.
Which Foilface will endeavour to do once we’ve finished mixing our first few EPs. Watch this space…
By Bro. Jo Stern, on March 1st, 2009
Another triumph at the bunker last night as one more delicious foilface song was burped into life. Things are shaping up nicely now and we’ve developed a bit of a rhythm in terms of writing and recording, what we really need to do now is start mixing and mastering these nuggets of insanity so they can be stuffed into a release-able format or two. To that end we’ve set a date of the first weekend in April for mixing the first EP, the idea being we mix the whole EP in one sitting.
The title of the first magical extended player is Traumatised Yacht Owner and I’m confident it’ll be done and ready for free mp3 download from the foilface website from mid April. Tell your friends, your Dog, your mistress and yourself to be around for the release of this sidestep from banality, being the only member of the Golf Society without a copy on your iPod touch is simply too much of a risk and if you do find yourself in such a career threatening position, well, you can’t say you weren’t warned. Good day.
By Bro. Jo Stern, on February 3rd, 2009
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…
I totally understand how annoying social networking sites like Facebook can be. And as for all the applications – stuff like software that makes your nose wiggle on photos, people sending pictures of fruit-baskets to each other and setting up Lorraine Kelly Fan Groups – do people really need that kind of fluff in their lives?
