We were back in the studio last week to record a couple of new tracks with Rory. We're building up a big pile of songs to choose from for our debut album and are in the process of seeing how stuff comes out. Anyway here's a song from that session. It's called 'Big Wave'.
J x
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Sunday, 17 April 2011
Show Time
It's been a while.
We've been busy with all the other stuff that comes with life like making the bed every single day and getting terribly jealous because the next door neighbour's got a persian rug delivered.
Anyway Summer is almost upon us which can mean only one thing. It's show time.
Here's what we've got in the can so far:
21st Apr - w/ Let's Wrestle @ The Bull & Gate, London
7th May - w/ Over the Wall @ Spanky Van Dykes, Nottingham
10th May - w/ Obits @ The Lexington, London
24th June - w/ Joan of Arc @ Spanky Van Dykes, Nottingham
12th Aug - Summer Sundae Weekender, Leicester
13th Aug - Leave Me Here Festival, Whycliffe, Durham
We should hopefully be adding some more dates soon.
J x
We've been busy with all the other stuff that comes with life like making the bed every single day and getting terribly jealous because the next door neighbour's got a persian rug delivered.
Anyway Summer is almost upon us which can mean only one thing. It's show time.
Here's what we've got in the can so far:
21st Apr - w/ Let's Wrestle @ The Bull & Gate, London
7th May - w/ Over the Wall @ Spanky Van Dykes, Nottingham
10th May - w/ Obits @ The Lexington, London
24th June - w/ Joan of Arc @ Spanky Van Dykes, Nottingham
12th Aug - Summer Sundae Weekender, Leicester
13th Aug - Leave Me Here Festival, Whycliffe, Durham
We should hopefully be adding some more dates soon.
J x
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
New Vid
FISTS - Ascending from Dan Toporowski on Vimeo.
Check out this video our friend Dan did for us. It's some old commons license cine film that a family shot on vacation in Disneyland in the 60s or 70s. Mickey got censored because it makes him look creepy and a bit porn but mostly because Disney are total litigation gangsters when it comes to appropriating the mouse. All the other stuff like the demon band leader, the birds and the winking dog are Dan's doing. You can check out more Dan Toporowski videos here.
Monday, 17 January 2011
Ascending b/w Stag - The Details
Stag b/w Ascending will be released on Monday 21st February 2011 as a strictly limited edition 7" on hand numbered, light green vinyl (500 copies - single pressing only). It comes in a beautiful, full colour, 300gsm, matte finish, card sleeve and will include a download code for high quality digital versions of the songs.
Additionally each copy will be screen printed by hand (by Pete from the band) with some lovely logo typeface designed by our friend Norman (www.wasteyourself.com).
To pre-order head here
Thursday, 16 December 2010
Have yourself a very metal xmas
On Saturday we went to the Earache Records annual Xmas party which was held this year in this recording/rehearsal facility on Carlton Road called Doghouse Studios. I’d never been before and wasn’t really sure what to expect beyond a 90% male audience geeking out to face ripping Death which was actually way off the mark.
We got there late and went into this dark room that stank of Jack Daniels and damp. The room was packed with label fans, industry types, photographers, comedians, burlesque dancers, a promotional team from an energy drinks company and Earache employees. On stage was new Earache signing Savage Messiah who sounded like a fan boy amalgamation of the big four. They were OK. They had a gaggle of girlfriends one of which was doing a slow sexy dance in front of the singer which was at odds with the mad thrash tempo. She was wearing a kind of cocktail dress and stilettos. It was a weird 80s moment.
After Savage Messiah a comic got up (who I'm sure I recognised from the New Foresters) and judged a drinking competition which he littered with bitchy asides and homosexual innuendo. It was a weird situation that felt like a kind of sub-cultural social experiment. Basically a room half full of pubescent teenage metal fans being plied with drinks and then verbally abused by a fearless old queen. The whole thing worked and everyone seemed to dig his routine. After his skit he introduced a Canadian guy called Jason Rouse. Rouse’s set was mostly bad-taste exploitation gags with punchlines about necrophilia, bestiality and stuff like that which he’d occasionally punctuate with that devil noise that Bill Hicks used to make. Rouse bowed out to a mixture of groans and cheer (which I suspect is what he ultimately aims for).
Next up was Sirens, a burlesque dance troupe with tattoos and stuff whose act seemed to involve pouring bottles of Jack Daniels over their masking taped breasts and into the mouths of the crowd whilst gyrating to hard rock music. It was a bit like a heavy metal version of that film Coyote Ugly. They ended the show with a pillow fight and the feathers got stuck to them which reminded me of those Catholic women who got tarred and feathered for fraternizing with British soldiers in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. The whole thing bummed me out so I headed outside for a cigarette.
The highlight of the evening came watching Dave completely lose his shit to Enforcer who are a gang of skinny, 20 something Swedes with peroxide blond hair playing 80s era Thrash. They had good musical chops and the sort of stage energy that causes Dave to enter thrash metal rapture inadvertently ruining the muscles around his neck and spine for at least 4 days.
Afterwards we got chatting to one of the Enforcer guys about touring and stuff but I was heading into that listlessly drunk stage where I start repeating questions so I decided to give it up and head home.
J x
PS - The metal odyssey continued on Tuesday with the Municipal Waste/Saviours/Ramming Speed show at the Rescue Rooms. The show was weirdly without security (cost cutting perhaps?) which meant that kids were free to throw themselves repeatedly off the balcony head first into the crowd (something I've personally never seen at Rescue Rooms before). Both a thrilling and slightly distressing experience that reminded me that I am always getting older and that my awareness of my own mortality is that little bit bigger since the last time I checked.
PPS - Come to the Damn You xmas covers party on Saturday 18th at The Bodega. It's always awesome.
We got there late and went into this dark room that stank of Jack Daniels and damp. The room was packed with label fans, industry types, photographers, comedians, burlesque dancers, a promotional team from an energy drinks company and Earache employees. On stage was new Earache signing Savage Messiah who sounded like a fan boy amalgamation of the big four. They were OK. They had a gaggle of girlfriends one of which was doing a slow sexy dance in front of the singer which was at odds with the mad thrash tempo. She was wearing a kind of cocktail dress and stilettos. It was a weird 80s moment.
After Savage Messiah a comic got up (who I'm sure I recognised from the New Foresters) and judged a drinking competition which he littered with bitchy asides and homosexual innuendo. It was a weird situation that felt like a kind of sub-cultural social experiment. Basically a room half full of pubescent teenage metal fans being plied with drinks and then verbally abused by a fearless old queen. The whole thing worked and everyone seemed to dig his routine. After his skit he introduced a Canadian guy called Jason Rouse. Rouse’s set was mostly bad-taste exploitation gags with punchlines about necrophilia, bestiality and stuff like that which he’d occasionally punctuate with that devil noise that Bill Hicks used to make. Rouse bowed out to a mixture of groans and cheer (which I suspect is what he ultimately aims for).
Next up was Sirens, a burlesque dance troupe with tattoos and stuff whose act seemed to involve pouring bottles of Jack Daniels over their masking taped breasts and into the mouths of the crowd whilst gyrating to hard rock music. It was a bit like a heavy metal version of that film Coyote Ugly. They ended the show with a pillow fight and the feathers got stuck to them which reminded me of those Catholic women who got tarred and feathered for fraternizing with British soldiers in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. The whole thing bummed me out so I headed outside for a cigarette.
The highlight of the evening came watching Dave completely lose his shit to Enforcer who are a gang of skinny, 20 something Swedes with peroxide blond hair playing 80s era Thrash. They had good musical chops and the sort of stage energy that causes Dave to enter thrash metal rapture inadvertently ruining the muscles around his neck and spine for at least 4 days.
Afterwards we got chatting to one of the Enforcer guys about touring and stuff but I was heading into that listlessly drunk stage where I start repeating questions so I decided to give it up and head home.
J x
PS - The metal odyssey continued on Tuesday with the Municipal Waste/Saviours/Ramming Speed show at the Rescue Rooms. The show was weirdly without security (cost cutting perhaps?) which meant that kids were free to throw themselves repeatedly off the balcony head first into the crowd (something I've personally never seen at Rescue Rooms before). Both a thrilling and slightly distressing experience that reminded me that I am always getting older and that my awareness of my own mortality is that little bit bigger since the last time I checked.
PPS - Come to the Damn You xmas covers party on Saturday 18th at The Bodega. It's always awesome.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Hitchwind/Google translation
Hitchwind is a Korean blog (I think) that did a piece on us. I tried to translate it using Google translator. Below is the result. I am unable to tell whether it's a positive or negative review!? Any Korean speakers out there willing to give it a better stab than Google translator please give us a shout.
4 songs hyperopic revealing look diligently to create a stake
Live syokkaji happening amongst the estimated own-ending
The next year, to recruit two new members becoming nakyeo personality is known as a band.
And move to a strange interview with the BBC to start an interview look
DIY music had different tastes of interest below.
Comic Books, 78 years, art, friends, dogs, Cuba, the family,
Scott Walker and musical style of music to inspire
Noise, low-fi, acoustic pop mix says.
Affected, but anyone from a variety of music (Link Wray, Woodie Guthrie) with
Is unlikely that it was a full band is confident and bold.
But one word captures the music interesting.
Anyway, originally thought to be a young man in so many places lined with
They do not have much interest in fashion
Rather than the reverse.
Nottang not looking too 50's for a past emotional
Helplessly in the spirit of kids are left scattered on the music scene.
I really can not measure. So stars can not be.
For fun on a forced ...
Summer is about to.
Weeks, there was adults fed rice! Jjeop ~
4 songs hyperopic revealing look diligently to create a stake
Live syokkaji happening amongst the estimated own-ending
The next year, to recruit two new members becoming nakyeo personality is known as a band.
And move to a strange interview with the BBC to start an interview look
DIY music had different tastes of interest below.
Comic Books, 78 years, art, friends, dogs, Cuba, the family,
Scott Walker and musical style of music to inspire
Noise, low-fi, acoustic pop mix says.
Affected, but anyone from a variety of music (Link Wray, Woodie Guthrie) with
Is unlikely that it was a full band is confident and bold.
But one word captures the music interesting.
Anyway, originally thought to be a young man in so many places lined with
They do not have much interest in fashion
Rather than the reverse.
Nottang not looking too 50's for a past emotional
Helplessly in the spirit of kids are left scattered on the music scene.
I really can not measure. So stars can not be.
For fun on a forced ...
Summer is about to.
Weeks, there was adults fed rice! Jjeop ~
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
NEWSFLASH/// The Vaselines + Fists (lame innuendo heaven)
Hola,
This coming Monday (Sept 20th) we’re playing with indie pop LEGENDS The Vaselines at Rescue Rooms in Nottingham. Right now as I type this I’m reliving the time when I was an angsty, sexually repressed teenager pouring over the first Vaselines record back in 1995 sobbing about girls and stuff. Weird times...
Here’s a few Vaselines facts:
It’s their first proper UK tour for 20 years (I think).
Kurt Cobain was a Vaselines super fan covering no less than 3 of their songs with Nirvana (Molly’s Lips, Son of a Gun and Jesus Don’t Want me for a Sunbeam). Cobain even went as far as naming his child after Frances McKee from the band.
My friend recently sold their ‘Dum-Dum’ album on Ebay for insane money. It went a good chunk of the way towards the purchase of his new Fender Telecaster.
They have a brand new record out called ‘Sex with an X’ which is their first for 20 years and is supposed to be completely ace (I haven’t heard it yet).
Frances McKee is looking totally sexy these days. She’s gone all 40-something, yogic, hipster mum which I’ve just discovered I’m totally in to.
Money saving idea #1:
Come to the show and buy two copies of the new record on vinyl and politely ask the band if they’ll sign them. Sell one on Ebay to a half-crazed Japanese collector for loads of £££ and keep one for yourself to treasure forever thus effectively bankrolling your whole evening, covering your record buy (probably) and also helping to line the pockets of totally deserving cult indie royalty.
Money saving idea #2:
E-mail your name (or names) to fistsmusic@googlemail.com and we will add you to our special discount guest list meaning that you can get in on the door for just £6 on the night (advanced tickets are £10).
Peace
Fists x
This coming Monday (Sept 20th) we’re playing with indie pop LEGENDS The Vaselines at Rescue Rooms in Nottingham. Right now as I type this I’m reliving the time when I was an angsty, sexually repressed teenager pouring over the first Vaselines record back in 1995 sobbing about girls and stuff. Weird times...
Here’s a few Vaselines facts:
It’s their first proper UK tour for 20 years (I think).
Kurt Cobain was a Vaselines super fan covering no less than 3 of their songs with Nirvana (Molly’s Lips, Son of a Gun and Jesus Don’t Want me for a Sunbeam). Cobain even went as far as naming his child after Frances McKee from the band.
My friend recently sold their ‘Dum-Dum’ album on Ebay for insane money. It went a good chunk of the way towards the purchase of his new Fender Telecaster.
They have a brand new record out called ‘Sex with an X’ which is their first for 20 years and is supposed to be completely ace (I haven’t heard it yet).
Frances McKee is looking totally sexy these days. She’s gone all 40-something, yogic, hipster mum which I’ve just discovered I’m totally in to.
Money saving idea #1:
Come to the show and buy two copies of the new record on vinyl and politely ask the band if they’ll sign them. Sell one on Ebay to a half-crazed Japanese collector for loads of £££ and keep one for yourself to treasure forever thus effectively bankrolling your whole evening, covering your record buy (probably) and also helping to line the pockets of totally deserving cult indie royalty.
Money saving idea #2:
E-mail your name (or names) to fistsmusic@googlemail.com and we will add you to our special discount guest list meaning that you can get in on the door for just £6 on the night (advanced tickets are £10).
Peace
Fists x
Thursday, 26 August 2010
New track preview...pre-listen?!
Hi,
We recently finished recording with the totally sweet Rory Brattwell down in Hackney. It went real good. The easiest recording session we’ve ever done. We recorded everything live in a day (5 songs) with only the vocals done separately. The next day we sat down with Rory and drank tea and mixed it (well Rory did) and then gave him some money and drove home with the masters in our pocket. We didn’t fight or get psychological about the recording process or anything and we’re all really pleased with the results. Anyhow, we’re looking to get this lot out as soon as possible. I’m hoping it will be on snot green vinyl although I haven’t discussed this with the the rest of the band yet so we’ll have to see.
Here’s a sneak preview of one of the songs we did. It’s called ‘Stag’. It’s supposed to sound a bit like druggy Highland battle music filtered through the Velvet Underground. Imagine dangerous shaven headed men in kilts running amok through the streets of Govan smashing up shops in slow motion. Well that’s what I imagine. I'm a bit gutted that we didn't get a bag piper doing some drone all over the top of it.
Stag (Unmastered Preview) by Fists
J x
We recently finished recording with the totally sweet Rory Brattwell down in Hackney. It went real good. The easiest recording session we’ve ever done. We recorded everything live in a day (5 songs) with only the vocals done separately. The next day we sat down with Rory and drank tea and mixed it (well Rory did) and then gave him some money and drove home with the masters in our pocket. We didn’t fight or get psychological about the recording process or anything and we’re all really pleased with the results. Anyhow, we’re looking to get this lot out as soon as possible. I’m hoping it will be on snot green vinyl although I haven’t discussed this with the the rest of the band yet so we’ll have to see.
Here’s a sneak preview of one of the songs we did. It’s called ‘Stag’. It’s supposed to sound a bit like druggy Highland battle music filtered through the Velvet Underground. Imagine dangerous shaven headed men in kilts running amok through the streets of Govan smashing up shops in slow motion. Well that’s what I imagine. I'm a bit gutted that we didn't get a bag piper doing some drone all over the top of it.
Stag (Unmastered Preview) by Fists
J x
October Tour w/ Sparrow & the Workshop
We’re playing these dates with the awesome Sparrow & the Workshop who we ambushed at Y Not Festival and foisted a CDR onto. Our secret plan worked!
The secret plan is still yet to work on Damian from Fucked Up and that guy from Future of the Left. They must have lost our e-mail or something...
Anyway here’s the dates we're doing:
Mon Oct 4th King Tut’s Glasgow
Tue Oct 5th Night and Day Café Manchester
Wed Oct 6th Brudenell Social Club Leeds
Thu Oct 7th Stereo York
Fri Oct 8th Bodega Social Nottingham
PS - People from Nottingham please come to the Bodega show. We can get you in ridiculously cheap (£3), it’s on a Friday night and we basically don’t want to look like a bunch of losers in front of our new friends by playing to 6 people in our home town. Oh and of course it will be really good!
Here’s a pop video that Sparrow and the Workshop did for my favourite Sparrow song:
The secret plan is still yet to work on Damian from Fucked Up and that guy from Future of the Left. They must have lost our e-mail or something...
Anyway here’s the dates we're doing:
Mon Oct 4th King Tut’s Glasgow
Tue Oct 5th Night and Day Café Manchester
Wed Oct 6th Brudenell Social Club Leeds
Thu Oct 7th Stereo York
Fri Oct 8th Bodega Social Nottingham
PS - People from Nottingham please come to the Bodega show. We can get you in ridiculously cheap (£3), it’s on a Friday night and we basically don’t want to look like a bunch of losers in front of our new friends by playing to 6 people in our home town. Oh and of course it will be really good!
Here’s a pop video that Sparrow and the Workshop did for my favourite Sparrow song:
Thursday, 8 July 2010
25% Discount for Truck Festival which is in 2 weeks time!
We've been given this tickets link to share with you for a 25% discount off a weekend ticket (normally £80 but available for £60 from this link) to Truck. These are only available in limited numbers so if you've decided you're going then it's probably best not to dilly dally.
Here's the link for those discounted tickets.
http://www.gigantic.com/imwiththeband
For those of you who haven't heard of Truck. Truck is a little festival (about 5000) on a farm in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside. They're into biodiversity and supporting the local community. Profits from the festival go to charity. The local vicar sells the ice-cream. The Rotary Club do all the catering. Despite sounding a bit village fete it's actually a festival for cutting edge alternative music, hosting stuff like 16 piece space-drone orchestra Flowers from Hell, noisy bastards like Fucked Up and Future of the Left and old hands like Teenage Fanclub and Mercury Rev. There's also buzzy, teen indie from the likes of Egyptian Hip Hop and Pulled Apart by Horses as well as tonnes of other stuff from pastoral folk and Americana to bleepy electronica and Grime. It's probably best just to read the line-up.
http://www.thisistruck.com/truck-festival-lineup.aspx
We'll be playing the Last FM Stage at Sunday lunch time (11:50-12:20). Our stage is by the Village Pub. If you're anything like me you might well be still lying in your tent, baking half to death, completely naked from the waste down with the mother of all hangovers at that point. If you're not like me (or you got lucky) and you feel good and are out and about in the sun (hopefully) then pop along and give us a bit of support. We'd be well grateful.
Take care folks and hopefully catch some of you there.
x
Here's the link for those discounted tickets.
http://www.gigantic.com/imwiththeband
For those of you who haven't heard of Truck. Truck is a little festival (about 5000) on a farm in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside. They're into biodiversity and supporting the local community. Profits from the festival go to charity. The local vicar sells the ice-cream. The Rotary Club do all the catering. Despite sounding a bit village fete it's actually a festival for cutting edge alternative music, hosting stuff like 16 piece space-drone orchestra Flowers from Hell, noisy bastards like Fucked Up and Future of the Left and old hands like Teenage Fanclub and Mercury Rev. There's also buzzy, teen indie from the likes of Egyptian Hip Hop and Pulled Apart by Horses as well as tonnes of other stuff from pastoral folk and Americana to bleepy electronica and Grime. It's probably best just to read the line-up.
http://www.thisistruck.com/truck-festival-lineup.aspx
We'll be playing the Last FM Stage at Sunday lunch time (11:50-12:20). Our stage is by the Village Pub. If you're anything like me you might well be still lying in your tent, baking half to death, completely naked from the waste down with the mother of all hangovers at that point. If you're not like me (or you got lucky) and you feel good and are out and about in the sun (hopefully) then pop along and give us a bit of support. We'd be well grateful.
Take care folks and hopefully catch some of you there.
x
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Other news...
As you may know some of our members are also involved with other stuff. Firstly Theresa has formed a new band with Joey Chickenskin called Burly Nagasaki. They're an oddball mash up of surf rock, twee-pop, rock n roll, power-pop, horror soundtrack, homage and conceptual art all jostling about together in a weird stew. They're really good fun and will be playing at Dot-to-Dot Festival (Nottingham) on Saturday 30th May at the Trent Uni Glo Bar at 2pm. Make sure you check them out.
Also, Dave our bassist (who we share with the fabulous Cult of Dom Keller AND Cuban Crimewave) was recently in the studio with Cult of Dom Keller to record their debut album with legend guitarist/producer Doggen (Spiritualized/Julian Cope). Dave says it was the best recording experience he's ever had in his life and that they did most of the songs in a single take!! Needless to say I'm totally desperate to hear (be sick with jealousy about) the results. Keep your eye on their Myspace.
Finally, Pete will be watching football for pretty much ALL of next month. He's been waiting for 4 years for it so please do not attempt to book us for any shows (unless of course they are actually at the World Cup). That goes to you as well Eavis with your empty Friday night slot at Glastonbury this year.
J x
Also, Dave our bassist (who we share with the fabulous Cult of Dom Keller AND Cuban Crimewave) was recently in the studio with Cult of Dom Keller to record their debut album with legend guitarist/producer Doggen (Spiritualized/Julian Cope). Dave says it was the best recording experience he's ever had in his life and that they did most of the songs in a single take!! Needless to say I'm totally desperate to hear (be sick with jealousy about) the results. Keep your eye on their Myspace.
Finally, Pete will be watching football for pretty much ALL of next month. He's been waiting for 4 years for it so please do not attempt to book us for any shows (unless of course they are actually at the World Cup). That goes to you as well Eavis with your empty Friday night slot at Glastonbury this year.
J x
Festival season innit?
Ola chicos (Festival update and my second ping.fm test),
We're playing Splendour Festival in Nottingham (July 24th) this year and for me the most important bit about that is that Terrorvision are playing! Terrorvision were the very first band I ever saw live. I was 14. I don't remember it being a very good show at the time to be honest but I kind of feel like I've completed some kind of important circle in my life by sharing a bill with them. Does anyone remember reading about that weird punch up they had with QOTSA? Probably one of the weirdest rock punch ups in recent memory (I'm also quite fond of the Axl Rose/Tommy Hilfiger punch up from 2006 but that isn't exclusively 'rock' so I guess that doesn't count).
We're also playing at Y Not Festival in Derbyshire, Nr Matlock on the 1st August. It's a little one (about 8'000) in a beautiful location. Lot's of indie bands hawking new records like Los Campesinos, Blood Red Shoes, etc. It's also a pretty cheap ticket and our good friend Petebox is also playing. He's what the press call 'must see'. It's like an amazing musical magic show done exclusively with mouth muscles and lungs.
J x
We're playing Splendour Festival in Nottingham (July 24th) this year and for me the most important bit about that is that Terrorvision are playing! Terrorvision were the very first band I ever saw live. I was 14. I don't remember it being a very good show at the time to be honest but I kind of feel like I've completed some kind of important circle in my life by sharing a bill with them. Does anyone remember reading about that weird punch up they had with QOTSA? Probably one of the weirdest rock punch ups in recent memory (I'm also quite fond of the Axl Rose/Tommy Hilfiger punch up from 2006 but that isn't exclusively 'rock' so I guess that doesn't count).
We're also playing at Y Not Festival in Derbyshire, Nr Matlock on the 1st August. It's a little one (about 8'000) in a beautiful location. Lot's of indie bands hawking new records like Los Campesinos, Blood Red Shoes, etc. It's also a pretty cheap ticket and our good friend Petebox is also playing. He's what the press call 'must see'. It's like an amazing musical magic show done exclusively with mouth muscles and lungs.
J x
New songs and musing on new songs
Hi folks a little update (but mainly a test run of Ping.fm).
We've been keeping a bit of a low profile lately to concentrate on writing some new stuff. It's turning out pretty good. It's a bit darker and weirder than we've ever sounded before. If I was a rubbish hack I would say that the new Fists stuff is the soundtrack for the 'age of austerity' and a howl at cold war ghosts, North Korea! Obviously that's total nonsense like most music journalism these days and of course it doesn't sound anything like that at all. A more realistic clue on how I think one of the songs is shaping up are the words 'sister', 'ray', 'shitter', 'poppier' and 'Fists' if you can imagine such a thing. We'll be committing the whole lot to tape in a mad flurry of sweat and valves this coming July somewhere in Dalston after which you can make up your own minds.
We'll keep you posted.
J x
We've been keeping a bit of a low profile lately to concentrate on writing some new stuff. It's turning out pretty good. It's a bit darker and weirder than we've ever sounded before. If I was a rubbish hack I would say that the new Fists stuff is the soundtrack for the 'age of austerity' and a howl at cold war ghosts, North Korea! Obviously that's total nonsense like most music journalism these days and of course it doesn't sound anything like that at all. A more realistic clue on how I think one of the songs is shaping up are the words 'sister', 'ray', 'shitter', 'poppier' and 'Fists' if you can imagine such a thing. We'll be committing the whole lot to tape in a mad flurry of sweat and valves this coming July somewhere in Dalston after which you can make up your own minds.
We'll keep you posted.
J x
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Monday, 5 April 2010
Video for 'Ace is the Way' by Little Kingdoms
Brand new video for 'Ace is the Way' off our new EP 'Olympic Hits'.
Fists 'Ace is the Way' from Little Kingdoms on Vimeo.
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