blind-fitter Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 (edited) FLIES ON YOU is a band I formed with a fella I know, about a year ago. We are based in Leeds, in the north of England. For simplicity's sake, we describe ourselves as a DIY post-punk duo. I won't bore you with a list of musical interests and influences just now. I am vocalist / lyricist / visionary, and also play guitar on some tracks. We have an album, "Nothing To Write Home About", coming out in September 2012. In the meantime,interested parties can sample some of our wares on our MySpace or Soundcloud pages: http://www.myspace.com/fliesonyou NO LONGER APPLICABLE (see subsequent post) There are some vaguely interesting tales to tell about some of our songs, which may well be revealed in time. There will be videos to accompany several of the album tracks, which I will bring to your attention, when the moment is right. Later! Edited June 23, 2012 by Guest Update info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Excellent song, B-F. looking forward to the album. Best of Luck. Go Mighty Whites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 I heard the first three songs, BeeF, and I like them... Punk post punk... Congrats! Hope you soon have the vids... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted June 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Update: I didn't know until today that MySpace belongs to Murdoch, so we have deleted our MySpace page for ideological reasons. Use the Soundcloud link for the time being: Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcM Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 I like it! Looking forward to seeing the video and hearing more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 I like it too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted June 25, 2012 Report Share Posted June 25, 2012 Great work Fitter, you guys sound great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted June 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 Thanks for the positive feedback, folks! You'll never guess what happened last week. On the very day we began publicising our Soundcloud page (last Friday), I received a late-night text from a local promoter, asking if we would like to support Scritti Politti, at their early August gig at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds. Now, I'm not a huge Scritti Politti fan myself, but they are a band of great pedigree: John Peel Show favourites with post-punk roots, then had some big international hit records in their pure pop incarnation, now releasing critically-acclaimed albums again, after a few "wilderness years". This is not a "low-key" event": it will be a sell-out, I suspect. Shame we had to turn the gig down: we haven't made any plans for live peformance, would need to draft in extra musicians, familiarise them with songs, rehearse together, etc. and the gigs only 5 weeks away. Oh,and my band-mate will be away. But still, quite an exciting thing to have to deal with, so soon after setting the publicity machine in motion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 NOOOOOOOOOOO YOU TURNED IT DOWN NOOOOOOOOO I dig Scritti Politti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 Just play as the three of you, when I saw Mono their support was a man, a violin and assorted pedals. Fiddler with a loop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 Congrats on that .... good to get some validation from people that count huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted July 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2012 The highly entertaining, informative and ultra-happening music news blog LOUDER THAN WAR may be featuring Flies On You in its "New Bands" feature very soon, so keep your eyes peeled! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted July 4, 2012 Report Share Posted July 4, 2012 nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted July 5, 2012 Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 "Spain" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted July 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 Here we are: Louder Than War: New Band of the Day It's only a short "intro" piece, but I understand LTW mainman John Robb intends to do a bigger "splash" later. I'm well chuffed. Please feel free to FB "like", Tweet, etc. etc. The more the merrier. Much appreciated. Ta! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted July 5, 2012 Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 I mentioned this in the other thread already, how about adding your stuff to Last.fm too? It's CBS owned if that makes a difference Hit me with any questions you might have about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted July 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 I think we'll get round to a Last FM page too. I've mentioned to my collaborator. Latest news is that we're going to be doing the filming for a video for the track "Slashing It Down", on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted July 5, 2012 Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 That was fast looking forward to the video - I think Slashing it Down is my favourite track so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted July 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 How didyou do that??? I just called in to say: how's this for service: FLIES ON YOU on Last FM , but you beat me here. How? How? How? I' only found out myself 2 minutes ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted July 5, 2012 Report Share Posted July 5, 2012 After reading your post I went there to put up some tags (are 'post-punk' and 'noise rock' appropriate in your opinion?), so that's how I noticed btw, could you direct your collaborator to this post? Generally, at least until you have a decent amount of listeners, I would always recommend putting up your music as "free full-length preview" Also the more users are tagging the music, the better it will be too! So if any of you SFers have a Last.fm account - use it to scrobble and to tag! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted July 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Every week something new and exciting happens; I can scarcely keep up! On our FB page, you can watch the video we've made for the track "Slashing It Down": Flies On You FB page Meantime we've been getting some airplay: Straight in at Number 3!!!: The Singing Man Radio Show The presenter is something of a hero of mine from his great work over the years with The Cravats and The Very Things, so it's just awesome that he digs my band enough to play us on his (syndicated) show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 I just watched the video on FB and shared it. AWESOME. I'm so excited for you! (and for me, because I know you). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted July 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Incidentally, that track that was played on The Singing Man radio show this morning, "The Last Pop Song", the lyrics to that one began life as a poem which I posted here on SF in the "Creative Writing" forum, on the very day that I wrote it. I tinkered with it slightly to enable it to fit into the song format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted July 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Now on youtube, the video everyone's been talking about: FLIES ON YOU ~ "Slashing It Down" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 just think... we were here at the inception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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