The Faults

Laying down fat beats in your mothers face

sup y'all

One of the main things to come from Dav(e)os (mine and Tom's booze fuled band management forum a few weeks ago) was that we should make sure we post regualr blogs to give people a reason to visit the site and and keep in touch with the literally tens of Faults fans subscribed by rss or email.

So far unfortunately this has not happened, this is partly due to lazyness and also having knob all to talk about. So while Brad is busy tweeting his little heart out and Al is working out how to log on to this "internet" he has been hearing so much about I thought I should take it upon myself to, for these few paragraphs at least, be the voice of The Faults!

As some of you already know from the tweets and generally knowing us we managed to get some dosh together to pay for a weekend in a studio (rumours that Brad has been playing hide the sausage with loanly businessmen to raise the capital are as yet unconfirmed). Well that was a few weeks ago now and after various mixing sessions and things we are very happy with the final result. If you fancy a listen, we are a band after all, the songs are on the music player on the homepage of the site and myspace (link also on the homepage). We thought you could download them from myspace so have taken down the songs page from the site but it turns out you can't so when I get round to it I will get a download link back up. In the meantime if anyone would like the mp3s of any of our songs for you to play on your iPod, at trendy nightclubs or to sell down the market then just drop us an email and I will send them your way.

The weekend itself was an allround good and highly productive time. For myself it mostly consisted of playing bass for a couple of hours on Saturday and then dicking about with Brad playing 20 questions and pulling faces at Tom and Al while they tried their best to record vocals for the rest of the weekend. I also took the role of lyric consultant while Al franticly worked to get the words to money finished in time to record that day. I think we can all agree he did a dam good job, although I'm still not entirely sure what the gold one thrown in his face was I'm sure it was very inspired.

As we don't get into the studio all that often I'm going to run out of things to blog pretty soon so I'm thinking I might do a little rundown of some music I like or something like that.

In other Dave news I'm going to see the fantastic Noah and the Whale tomorrow night at the Roundhouse so say hello if you see me there, i'm the sexy bass player (the Faults, not Noah) with the little goatee

As always we would love to hear your thoughts on the comments and email so don't be shy. Also big thanks to devon314, if that is your real name, for your review of Money. Check out her blog for that and other music inspired words of American flavoured wisdom here. The Faults have gone state side boiiiii

Hopfully we will be blogging again very soon, I for one want another charity update so keep it The Faults!

Peace and love to the massive

D-Dogg Fault

Dave has his say + I heart Justin Vernon

Initially I really couldn't be bothered to write a blog but being off sick for a few days with nothing to do coupled with the fact that my name has been brought up a few of times in recent blogs I thought I should have my say. 

Firstly I would like to backup my views shared third hand by Brad in blog 001. In my opinion Avatar did suck, was indeed pootastic and beyond the pretty visuals I felt offered nothing. The story and dialouge was cliched and predictable every step of the way. I can't forgive a film that takes itself super seriously and has the line "I didn't sign up for this sh#t".

Yes watching in 3d is fun but My Bloody Valentine 3d had an equally by the book plot but was a much more enjoyable experience. Admittedly if it wasn't so popular I probably wouldn't be so harsh but it just makes me a little bit sad that such an uninspired film (visuals excluded) can be the highest-grossing of all time.

Ok enough with the moaning...

Is anyone a fan of Bon Iver?
Well I am, Great chill out music the day after that messy Faults gig! (After you've listened to our acoustic podcast that is)
What I didn't realise was that he had done stuff under his real name, Justin Vernon, before he made it with the Bon Iver.
Supposedly he made 100 copies and sold them in his local record shop, or so I read someone read somewhere online.

Follow that link to listen to title track Hazelton and ask Google where to download the rest of it if you're interested. If you like what you hear go get For Emma, Forever ago.

Hopefully my Avatar comments will make people care enough to have their say, so if anyone actually reads this, leave us a comment

Peace and love

Dave Fault