The Furbelows

    from London, England, United Kingdom

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    As much fun as a Playboy Playmate and twice as pleasant to listen to" --A New Band a Day

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    Furbelow n. A flounce on a skirt or petticoat, (furbelows) showy trimmings It's time to ram home the funk, grease the spindles of dub and give a brazen yank to the hairy tail of the Beast of Rock. For the Furbelows are here, a quintet of fey troubadors who have recently got it together to start playing some gigs. If we had a plan then you can be sure we'd be working with inexorable cunning towards its devastating implementation. So loosen any tight clothing and assume crash positions. No, better still, drape yourself over an impossibly baroque chaise longue and gaze dreamily into your goblet of absinthe. "'Pleasure Machine' rips up the carpet, stomps its Cuban heeled feet into the floorboards and, before you know it, has created a clammy, uninhibited party. It's as simple, attractive and as much fun as a Playboy Playmate, and twice as pleasant to listen to. 'What Whiskey Is For' is nearly the kind of song that Spiritualized would write if they had a sense of humour, but if you want a blast of pure, eccentric, in-capital-letters FUN, you could do no better than putting 'Pleasure Machine' on loop." A New Band A Day "The Doors, Nick Cave, with a dash of Howard and Vince from The Mighty Boosh. Eclectic viewing, but really enjoyable. These guys are worth seeing again to see where their music takes them." Remotegoat.co.uk "Very good debut for this English combo who oscillate between garage, The Fall and excellence. We await the continuation of their adventures with impatience." French Radio show Kerosene on CanalB “The Furbelows are an uber-confident five-piece who defy pigeon-holing. The lead singer swaggers and struts assuredly through the songs, most of which are good and a couple of which are great. Numerous likenesses have been drawn in previous reviews and the one that rings most true for me being Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. I'd add some of my own: the raw energy of The Cult popped up in one of their songs, and I detected an element of Interpol in a tune with some delicious lilting harmonies, and a smidgen of 1970s Bowie. Their music overall has an epic and audacious quality, anchored throughout by a plump bass and graceful drumming.” Remotegoat

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    21 April 2009 ANNOUNCING CIRQUE DE CREME ANGLAISE 4 The circus is coming to town again with another vaudevillean attempt to shoehorn the more theatrical end of guitar music together with much tomfoolery and tongue-in-cheekery, courtesy of your hosts The Furbelows. Custard for the soul! The date is Saturday 16th May and the venue is The Cross Kings, in London's King's Cross. Headlining this time are DAVID CRONENBERG'S WIFE, setting deadpan tales of booze, sexual jealousy, runaway prams and lovelorn morgue workers to a brooding voodoo swamp blues groove. I'm delighted to announce that they will be launching their single "The Fight Song" this very night. "If Nick Cave just isn’t unpleasant enough for you these days, this will be a record to treasure." —Time Out "Where genius meets idiocy" —Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2 "Tom Mayne has really excelled himself with the new album... noir ambience all the way through." —Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music Also performing is ANTONY ELVIN, a lewd troubadour and shrewd ruminator who sings of buttery scones, sexual misadventure and what he sums up as ‘a bit of a cavort through the wreckage of the contemporary moment’. He has been spotted disporting on stage with The Might Boosh. A very talented guitar player too. When asked to appear, he replied, "I would love to cavort with you types. Let it be madly gay!" Regularly insisting they’ve flown over from Japan specially for one gig, wilfully surreal and coquettish trio NO CARS are indeed fronted by two Japanese girls aided by a British bloke on drums (whom they claim is trying to become a Japanese girl through the power of prayer). They sing mostly about their favourite foods and illustrate their songs with manga cartoons. Last time I saw them they exhorted the audience: "Hey! No rubbish clapping!" "A bubblegum band, and the audience is chewing"—Artrocker Of course you'll also have to listen to THE FURBELOWS themselves (to get an idea what that experience is like, click through to our Facebook page and cock your ear at the ten tracks there), a band who have just been shortlisted for the Exposure Music Awards. "As much fun as a Playboy Playmate and twice as pleasant to listen to" —A New Band A Day "Epic and audacious" —Remotegoat "I love that track! That's going to be playlisted a million, million, million, trillion times on this show. And Clayton is the best-dressed man in the whole of the UK underground scene." Jordan Thomas, playing 'Pleasure Machine' on The Friday Forum, VS Re:Charged As if that there weren't quite enough I am proud to announce a DJ set from none other than "MC" FRUITY HATFIELD-PEVEREL, spinning, I don't doubt, everything from 80s New Wave to obscure ragtime 78s, assuming we can work out how to amplify his wind-up gramophone. The Cross Kings is a great venue five minutes from King's Cross station. The staff are friendly, there's a good choice of ales and they also do very good food. It's £5 on the door, and for this you get a limited edition FREE BADGE, a bar till 2am and FREE CUSTARD CREAMS!
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