get yourself some of this

you better get yourself some of this, AP's big EP. hits such as my personal faves Trip, Parasol, and Them Harmonies alongside fucking classics, all included. the thunderously small amount of £2 will buy you this. buy yourself it and dance along, like members of frenchgirls have been seen doing recently. thanks to these boys for supplying us with a gig, and for supplying us with these tunes.

bm

a photo of the madness

ǝʇnɥɔɐɹɐd ʇuǝsqɐ - last nite

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last nite was wonderful
thank you very much to the wardrobe and AP for having us, and our best bud LIAM BLAKE for collaborating with us in the most fun song we've ever played
a night of laughs and black eyes (bm's sister)

we're trying to organise GIRLS NIGHT 2 to get some more mad fun in after exams...
this time hopefully Whine will appear alongside Absent Parachute and frenchgirls, with a yet to be confirmed fourth band
look out for that!!!

thanks for coming down last nite,

seeya
bm

not absent parashite any more

man, are frünchgirls excited to be playing tomorrow nite with our favourite aviation-peril-named band, the absent parachutes. this group of likely indie lads have become like our brothers in blood, through years of competition and even (gosh horror) some spats. I still remember back in the run for the 33 days, those now-strange memories of arctic monkeys b side spewing neaderthalic drudge - but hey, aren't all bands guilty of having their arctic monkeys phase? never forget, frenchgirls/audiobomb have at least 4 am covers in their back catalogue, if my memory serves me correctly. thank god we all moved past those days.

being honest, I was speculative when I first heard of the band's reforming into absent parachute. I wasn't sure if this new name and stripped back style would work out any better than their old format. the awfully disturbing name in particular seemed to spell disaster - absent parachute? who WANTS that??

but as it turns out, despite some slightly dodgy early months (hello, Taco Paco), when I first heard the boys ripping through the modern behemoth that is cecilia go home, on a (probably) misty thursday afternoon in mu2, I felt a strange feeling inside me that shook my every fibre to its core.

I UNDERSTOOD absent parachute. 

they were here to shake my hips. 

they were here to turn my silence into a scream. 

the first band, as it seemed, were far WORSE than the remake.

and now, we come to the eve of their first EP proper being released into the public realm. I've seen this band destroy countless stages, from the chaotic drunken mess of our gig with them last summer in james hobkirk's garden (ben played keyboards for them despite not knowing the chords; I sang on their pumped up kicks cover) right through to last month, seeing them headline the amp awards to the O2 academy's cavernous hall. their music sums up indie pop in a way few bands in this day and age do. musicians these days - ourselves at frenchgirls HQ included - seem to think that in order to be successful and "good", we have to experiment. not so with absent parachute. they are simple in the best sense of the words. what else do you actually need but bass, guitar, drums and a catchy chorus hook? my thoughts exactly. most bands try attempt some real fancy three-course meal into every one of their songs. absent parachute just serve you soup. but real fuckin good soup.

and I don't know about you, but I'd rather have a kickass soup than a shitty moussaka any day.

thd

eclectic influences

ABBA, Alex Humphreys, Alex Rushfirth, Al Pacino, Alvvays, Animal Farm, Anthony Burgess, the Arcade Fire, Arthur C. Clarke, avant-garde sepiatone pornography, bad vibes, Bangkok, the battery life, Battles, The Beatles, beat literature, Beck, Berlin, Bess the dog, The Beta Band, Beyoncé, Big Narstie, Blondie, blue, Blue Rinse, Blur, Bobby Gillespie, Bombay Bicycle Club, C. S. Lewis, Caribou, Carson Cox, Chic, corduroy in black, The Cure, Daft Punk, Danny Boyle, David Bowie, Death Grips, Defne Cetin, denim, Denzel Washington, DIIV, Disclosure, displacement, Django Django, duct tape, Dutch Uncles, East India Youth, Edinburgh, Egypt, El Paso, Elvis Presley, Erica, everybody named John McCarthy, Everything Everything, Factory Floor, Factory Records, Fatboy Slim, The Fat White Family, Fela Kuti, the fitness myth, Florence and the Machine, Flying Lotus, Francis Ford Coppola, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Franz Ferdinand, French Soul Party, Frida Kahlo, George Harrison, George Orwell, Giorgio Moroder, Goat, Gorillaz, green, HAIM,  Hanna-Barbera, Ho Chi Minh, Holst, Hookworms, the Human League, imp, Interpol, the Iron Man, Irvine Welsh, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Jack White, Jai Paul, jaguars, James Brown, Jamiroquai, Jarvis Cocker, Jaws, The Jesus and Mary Chain, John Kennedy, John Lennon, John Travolta, Jonas Jonasson, Joseph Heller, Joy Division, Juarez, Jungle, Kanye West, Kate Bush, Kendrick Lamar, keyboards, Kraftwerk, La Roux, LCD Soundsystem, leather, Leon Trotsky, Lewis Carroll, Lou Reed, Mac Demarco, Madchester, Madonna, Makeout Videotape, Marijuana Deathsquads, Mario Puzo, Mark Ronson and the Business Intl., Marlon Brando, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Menace Beach, Merrill Garbus, MGMT, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Milk Teeth and Green Tea, Moog, Moon King, Muhammad Ali, My Bloody Valentine, the city of Marseille, Maxwell Edison, Meg White, Merchandise, Metronomy, Mother Teresa, Mudride, New Order off-cuts, Nineteen Eighty Four, Nirvana, noise, the North Sea, the Norweigan underground art-gauche synthpop movement, Odd Future, orange, OutKast, the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, Passion Pit, Patrick Ness, Peter Saville, Philip Pullman, phones, Picasso, pink, The Pixies, Polica, Pond, Primal Scream, Public Enemy, Pulp, Pulp Fiction, purple, Putin’s Russia, Queens of the Stone Age, Quentin Tarantino, Radiohead, red, The Rolling Stones, Run For The 33, the sad sad rot to the grave, Salvador Dali, San Francisco, Savages, Scab Boys, Seas-Of-Green, the Secret Cult, Simonetta Stefanelli, Sky Ferriera, small-town escapism, The Smiths, the Sochi Winter Olympics, Sonic Youth, Soulwax, space, Splashh, Stanley Kubrick, St. Vincent, Stevie Wonder, Suicide (the band, we aren't that morbid), summer, Supermarionation, Sylvan Esso, Tame Impala, Taylor Swift, teal, Ted Hughes, thai brides, third-person drug experiences, Thom Yorke, Todd Terje, Trainspotting, The Truman Show, tUnE-yArDs, Tupac, The Undertones, underwater, The Vaccines, vintage Peace, Vladimir Lenin, Warpaint, The Wasp Factory, The White Stripes, Wild Beasts, The xx, yellow.


thd

early weeK blues

frenchgirls cannot tell you how much frenchgirls are looking forward to friday evening's main feature performance of ABSENT PARACHUTE, supported by frenchgirls themselves
we've got the Velveteens on there, frenchgirls on there, light entertainment from these two followed by some heavy entertainment, heavy fun, heavy trax and heavy tunes by the 1+only Absent Parachute

make sure you're there: hit us up for some tickets, priced at the unreasonably low amount of £5
woohoo, see you later


bm

post-show

post-show i would like to thank Double Denim Live for having us, and the people that came out for the gig
was a good night, frvvchgirls were a little rusty but it was good fun, and the other bands were great as well

looking forward excitedly to the Absent Parachute 'Parasol' EP Launch
it will be an honour to support those wild boys he he he, and also it's gna be fucking mad
sweaty n mad with the AP lads
see you then

goodnight

bm

TONIGHT!!!! - gig 17/04/15

TONIGHT!!!! is a gig at the verve bar, leeds, supporting some good ol indie bands from this godly land
coming along and see us, i heard there's free tequila or something, brought to you by the good people of Double Denim Live-  honestly wonderful people
we've just done some recordings, and recently bm and the vocalboys holed themselves up at a member's house and reworked some tunes, which we will of course be debuting 2nite

been listening to a lot of jazz at the moment. the new tyler album is really good despite what fantano says. but perhaps don't come if only this entices you - fvvvvvhgirls are a whole different BEAST

hopefully see you down there - we're on @ half past eight


bm

gig time - april 24

in just a week and a day we will be playing with our great buds Absent Parachute at the wardrobe, leeds
last time we played together, at 'girls night' it was mad and the most fun gig we've ever done, and our greatest fan liam blake (MC $CAB) cried or something
you don't have too much time to get tickets, so if you want one reach out to us or Absent through facebook or something

love and peace
bm

15/4/2014 - studio killin'

went to the studio today down at czar street
it was cool; we had some laughs, drank some b33rs, got luka to dust off his ol saxophone and lay us down some tasty vamps.

got some songs finished (nearly) now.

exciting times xox


thd

ouch - the beginning

ouch!!!
- and frenchgirls got a bl0g
is this the start of a true online presence for this indie band of princes?

love bm