just been sent some lovely lil' improved mixes for something super secret that's coming (maybe) soon.
secrecy is hard though when you're in a band with espen langli, who tends to tell everything to his gf. nonetheless, we've had strict words this time.
stay tuned, watch this space, exciting times ahead xox
- also, today was a very special day for our own jamie brigg [pictured], who learnt to use the paint mixing machine @ homebase.
if anyone needs some home or garden supplies hit him up
thd
Sunday, 24 May 2015
Thursday, 14 May 2015
some words of wisdom (from lou reed)
I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas
on a great big clipper ship
going from this land here to that
in a sailor's suit and cap
away from the big city
where a man can not be free
of all of the evils of this town
and of himself, and those around
oh and I guess that I just don't know
oh and I guess that I just don't know
I have made the big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
how to deal with examinations. not about heroin
bm
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas
on a great big clipper ship
going from this land here to that
in a sailor's suit and cap
away from the big city
where a man can not be free
of all of the evils of this town
and of himself, and those around
oh and I guess that I just don't know
oh and I guess that I just don't know
I have made the big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
how to deal with examinations. not about heroin
bm
BIG SHOUTS
BIG SHOUTS to our resident 420 man Luka Radjenovic
if you're wondering on what to gift him for this milestone birthday - his thirteenth - he likes wearing black clothes and is bad at talking to girls. he is also afraid of playing the saxophone for the dust it houses.
if you're wondering on what to gift him for this milestone birthday - his thirteenth - he likes wearing black clothes and is bad at talking to girls. he is also afraid of playing the saxophone for the dust it houses.
as for frenchgirls news, I'm sorry but you may have to wait until thom dent wants to write something on this god-given platform, specifically, probably after his worrying exams.
god bless and see ya
bm
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Monday, 11 May 2015
band tomorrow - what will happenn?!!?
we're having a band practice tomorrow, for the first time in a couple of weeks. only problem is - we have no plan for what to do.in the words of ellie goulding, anything could happen.
will ben have any more success in his ongoing quest to find "the tone"??????
will jamie still be able to play his sweet sweet solos??????
will espen's knock his head and wake up thinking he actually is a bass??????
will luka's jazzy riffing finally cross the breach into the murky world of freeform??????
will thom forget which house espen lives in and end up going next door and playing his signature rhythmic beats to the devout christians that live next door??????
will kit write a song so sick nobody can play it but him??????
that's the scary thing, isn't it?
nobody really knows.
it'll be fun fun tho.
thd
Sunday, 3 May 2015
frenchgirls @ live @ leeds
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| frenchgirls, not playing @ live at leeds |
saw some great bands and some not so great bands, but the former outweighed the latter by a big margin.
thom and ben got to see menace beach for the 5th and 6th time respectively (thom jamie and luka also accidentally overheard their band practice today), plus we saw equally local babes eagulls and hookworms ripping leeds becket a new hole. thom's fave moment was definitely dutch uncles at the town hall though - serious dance party (even when the lights turned off).
honourable mentions:
slaves @ the brude, which thom officially has scars from
marsicans @ the mine, solid leeds boys with a serious knack for indie pop
childhood @ the mine, spoilt slightly by some b*tch g*rl who tried to get ben kicked out
oscar @ nation of shopkeepers, brillo little band with cool basslines and sexy voices
definitely not the strypes @ stylus, because they're shyte
thd
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
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
Sunday, 26 April 2015
Saturday, 25 April 2015
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
Thursday, 23 April 2015
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
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
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
thd
Monday, 20 April 2015
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
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
Friday, 17 April 2015
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
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
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
Thursday, 16 April 2015
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
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
Wednesday, 15 April 2015
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.
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
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
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