Fanfarlo / Race Horses / Mr Bones & The Dreamers
This London-based five-piece Fanfarlo
Announce details of ULU headline show and i-Tunes EP
Impressive – 4/5 Uncut
Stirring, mini epics – Guardian
Sublime, beguiling, stunning – Sunday Times
Anthemic – Dazed & Confused
Gorgeous baroque pop – 4/5 Mojo
Fanfarlo round up a great 2009 by announcing their biggest U.K. shows to-date, including a headline London ULU show.
Set for the new year, the dates follow their recent hugely successful shows at CMJ in New York in October where they were widely acclaimed as one of the bands of the week having played the Brooklyn Vegan, Music Slut, Sneak Attack and Syndicate parties
The band will also release an EP of alternative recordings of songs from their debut album, Reservoir, which came out in September, through i-Tunes.
The EP will include the new tracks and also features their version of the Smashing Pumpkins track We Only Come Out At Night which had previously only been available via the band’s site, www.fanfarlo.com.
Without the help of a major label budget their debut self-released album has so far sold many copies in the U.K. & U.S. through a combination of creativity, hard-work and good old-fashioned word-of-mouth. They have built a strong and loyal fan-base on both sides of the Atlantic without any creative compromise.
Also on the bill is Race Horses…
“While it’s easy to see why this Welsh four-piece have been compared to Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, this fast paced set is delivered with such force that theri wonky pop songs take on the gritty backbone of 60’s garage. Complex four part harmonies give them the air of a creepy barbershop quartet, while a self guitar ode to Glenn Millar’s “Pennsylvania 6-5000″ leads into an operatic solo with the confidence of a backwater “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Race Horses are fearless experimenters and the fast-slow-fast-again approach keep the audience shouting and dancing till the feedback fades”
(NME)
Support comes from local band Mr Bones & The Dreamers – Mr Bones and The Dreamers are a bookish band with twelve legs between them; apportioned two per member. They play indie folk-music that was described by sax playing ex-president Bill Clinton as ’ the sound of Dolly Parton singing Joy Division songs, alone and drunk in her Dollywood mansion after an expansive session on the gin’
“…a giant slab of traditional folk complete with stomping, foot tapping rhythm that bursts with dark energy… Mr Bones And The Dreamers are proof that it is possible to turn the grey streets of the Midlands into something far from dreary and generic if you are brave enough to believe in your ideals and go it alone” (God Is In The TV)
