Call me Andy, Andy Peters!
Hello Blog Readers (all 2 of you),
Yes I know it’s been far too long since the captain wrote a blog for you all and while that is true, it’s probably been for the best. I've been in some dark places recently, and I don’t just mean in the cupboard under the stairs pretending to be Harry Potter!
I’ve changed jobs, bought a house and been abused by a lady who I moaned at for parking in a disabled spot. Still she was fucking massive so I guess she had a figure to maintain and walking that shorter distance into and out of Pizza hut would have saved her from burning off those extra few pounds she’d just put on.
So, The Faults do still exist some of you will be pleased to hear. We have just been beavering away recording our new EP which judging by the sound of the first track is going to be our best to date. We've had a lot more input and time over this one and we think it really shows, I think it is one that we will be proud of.
I think it’s been so long since we last blogged that I hadn’t even mentioned that we have now been signed to FAADA records, Spoon (the president of FAADA) Is a great, great man and is someone we are all looking to work with closely! BIG UP TO YA SPOONIE BABY!
Speaking of Spoon he has been in the States over the past couple of months on business mainly for himself but also to spread a little awareness of us and judging by the e-mails we have received back we could be in for some exciting times coming up…however, I’m not going to dwell on that right now.
We have our comeback gig on Friday 22/07/2011 at Cargo in Shoreditch again, as I love my competitions (that nobody ever enters) anyone who sends and e-mail to info@thefaults.co.uk with the title “Men who Miss Mash, Must Mash More Mash, Not To Miss Mash Any more” and I’ll give you a used drumstick after the gig…can’t say fairer than that can I?!?
That’s enough of the serious shit so let’s move on to something a little better…
Charity Watch:-
Obviously it’s been a while since the last blog and in that time being the charitable guy The Big Tree is he’s been non-stop. He’s been on trips to Japan after the earthquake/Tsunami tragedy, Africa to play football with Kids, Ethiopia helping them to make the Sweet corn grow bigger and stronger… the list goes on… My favourite is him helping his local public house/restaurant dispose of some rubbish that had been lingering about the place, such was the amount of rubbish he called upon the help of his brother and a few friends. Needless to say the Rubbish didn't last too long and despite coming away with a cut eye (one of the downfalls to this work), I believe you would call it a job well done!
A couple of things I have learnt over the past few weeks:-
- Andy Peters prefers it when you talk to him about everyday things rather than bombarding him with Tweets on Twitter telling him he’s your favourite mother fucker, who’d a thought it?
- Never pick a fight with a local cat, that shit will mess your hands/arms up
- Don’t pick Italian Bread while at subway, it’s just a waste of a pick.
- Don’t laugh at the guy down the road building an arch for the British Summer...
I’ll be back much more often now…
Until then…
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A poorly formatted blog is better than no blog at all… aka The Blog is back!
Hello!
Sorry it doesn’t look like the rest of the site yet but the blog is back and all of the old posts that I know you love are available to re-read. Such classic entries as Blogsville, blogtastic – Sunday evening… and Never use the word Blog in the title of your Blog… Word! So enjoy that…
Going forward we have pretty big plans for the blog, it will be the first place to hear about gigs, new songs and anything that is on our minds at the time. The exciting bit is that on a weekly/fortnightly (tbc) basis we will be uploading a some Faults music for your ears, it could be an early version of a song we are working on, a new version of a classic or a video where you will get to see our ugly mugs as well are hear us.
Once we have all the deets decided we will post a proper update and let you know what we’re up to so stay tuned. In the meantime enjoy our videos, pics and tunes here.
We are also now signed to FAADA so if you’re the kind of person who like to enjoy life click the link and see what’s going on, if you would prefer not there is always this…
New Calvin Klein ad campaign
Until next time
PEACE
D-Dogg
Never use the word Blog in the title of your Blog…Word!
Alright you Mothers, The Captain is back again.
I know you have had some blogs in between my last, but lets face it you all come here just to see mine so on we go…
Did some recording as D-dog said, it was great fun in the studio and to be honest I’d be a studio musician all day everyday it is great fun. Hats off also Leigh at Earthworks also who did a great job and got us a demo we can be proud of (maybe not Al, but you can’t always please Big Fucking Trees).
So I’m not going to dwell to much on my miss fortunes but I’ve had massive aids now for over a week. It started as probably one of the worst colds any human has had, bad throat, pounding head and bogies like anything. After a couple of days rest I decided I would return back to work, which was fine I’m a man and I can take it (with the help of Nurofen and Sudafed sinus tablets, which btw are epic). All was going well until Sunday when I was struck down with killer monkey pains in my face, it felt like an Elephant pounding my head from inside and no amount of tablets helped. Turns out my Sinus’s had become infected so I am not on a course of Antibiotics, lame!
Anyway that’s enough personal shit about me.
The last day or so we had asked for your questions through different media outlets (MySpace, twitter etc…) and here are they selected few we chose…
Simon Frane:
Q: Hi guys, thanks for taking the time to do this. I love you guys and I’m a builder and was just wondering what is your favourite hammer?
A: Well mine is the Stanley, big strong and robust. I think Dave’s is the sandwich though.
Devon314:
Q: What venue in all the world do you hope to play in and which bands will play there with you?
A: Probably Wembley for Al, his supporting band would be Oasis fo sure, with maybe Blur on first? Mine would be Madison Sq Garden supported by hmmm…Really don’t know possibly John Mayer or DMB. Tom would be the Same as Al and Dave would be Finchley carnival supporting by Chaz n Dave.
Alice Cheshire:
Q: I’m quite a large girl, (23 stone) but I love rocking away to your music in my well worn chair. I really think that the Big Tree is a stud, would he like to come over one night?
A: PAH…NO!
Michelle Pallet:
Q: Hi Guys, I just wondered if you ever though about maybe making a cool spin off band? I enjoyed Chav England and also think John Terry is a Cu…
A: Thanks Michelle, funny you should mention it but check out chineseopera.thefaults.co.uk 
(Don’t tell Tom I have sent you there though)
Ashley Coles bit on the side:
Q: I have an itchy red rash on my wanny
A: Not surprised.
Right that was about it for questions but the others were pretty lame no offence if yours wasn’t answered but I don’t think, “who is your favourite artist ever” counts as a valid question…BORING!
More rehearsals last night and all this is leading up to our gig tomorrow night (Friday 19.03.2010) at the Barfly in Camden, if you want to come the first person to send us an email with “Men who love mushrooms need much room to love mushroom soup” in the subject title will get a free ticket on the Captain and maybe their first drink on Tommy Fault!?
CHARITY WATCH:
So Sport Relief is coming up and with Eddie Izzard running shit loads of marathons over the course of 7/8 weeks and obviously The Big Tree being the charitable guy he is decided he would also run… up and down his driveway 3 or 4 times. For a massive tree this is no mean feet, especially when he will be attempting to eat a doughnut without licking his lips on each run. Harder than that cross-dressing tranny Izzard I think you’ll agree.
Not too much else to say to be honest, things move fast in life remember that.
Peace x
Blogsville
Well – another day another dollar I guess….hello blog fans…tommy fault here and this is my update
Since I last wrote – last week was cool – ended up having an absolute bender on Saturday night and ended up falling asleep in the corner of the hockey clubhouse whilst my ‘friends’ piled tables and chairs on me but I didn’t retaliate – mainly because I was in a lager induced coma – oh well
Had Monday off as annual leave to help recover from the weekend and watched the blur documentary on bbc 2 – prob not the best thing to watch with a hangover as they seemed to be pissed for 10 years solid – now I have sobered up from the weekends excesses though seems like not such a bad idea now…
I did love the old school way of blur doing things (small sweaty gigs then making it to the top etc) it’s a lost art but one that I want The Faults to be able to copy…we certainly do the small sweaty gigs part…
As for the band, practice last night and tomorrow night ready for the gig on Friday at Barfly in Camden – cannot wait for that – been too long away from the stage…on the side to all of that, reaching out to pretty much every tom dick and harry with our new tunes and just basically trying to get as much attention from anyone as possible!
Just cannot believe how much shite there is to do when wanting to promote the band…so many people to contact etc…that’s why we are on the look out for a manager again – not someone who is going to try and rip us off – maybe even a student with some spare time who fancies managing a band and can help out with the admin – f**k this blog has just taken me 20 minutes!
Right oh, am writing this on the tube home and my stop is coming up – curry a couple of beers, the footy and a game of fifa* with my flatmate are on the cards - lads night in!
Hope you are all well
Much love
Tommy
*used to be pro eveo until our disc broke and got bought a copy of fifa