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In the News (Tue 7 Oct 08)

  
  FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND
Though Funeral For A Friend are a group stronger than the sum of their parts, true brothers of the road, it was Matt in particular who felt the pressures of the preceding months.
Elsewhere, the presence of Terry Date has enabled the band to capture the diamond-precise crunch the band's heavier moments thus far have always hinted at, a focused ferocity that is breath-taking.
A band already talking excitedly of working with Date on a third album, of travelling the world once again in support of their heartfelt noise.
www.irvingplaza.com /bands/bio.php?ID=1789   (760 words)

  
 Funeral for a Friend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Funeral for a Friend are a Welsh rock band.
The band is signed to Atlantic Records and Ferret Records in the United States, and Mighty Atom Records in the United Kingdom.
Funeral for a Friend toured feverishly in support of Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation, including a series of European dates in which they opened for their idols, Iron Maiden.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Funeral_For_A_Friend_(band)   (1027 words)

  
 dirty dozen brass band - funeral for a friend
The irony was thick as the band had just completed their 10th studio album in 27 years, “Funeral For A Friend” (ropeadope, release date May 4th, 2004).
Despite a mélange of styles that draw from the traditional brass band canon as well as funk, r and b, bop, gospel and rock, the Dozen have always kept one foot firmly planted in the music from which they were born.
Comprised solely of traditional gospel and spiritual songs, Funeral For A Friend is a moving sonic experience that mines the sounds and memories that have made the Dozen the preeminent musical export of New Orleans.
www.ropeadope.com /ddbb/funeral_for_a_friend/content/index.html   (953 words)

  
 SPIN.com: Funeral For A Friend
Hours, the band's second full-length, is carried by those chunky, metal-tinged riffs from guitarists Kris Roberts and Darren Smith, particularly on propulsive lead single "Streetcar," which opens with a chugging rhythm line that would do Judas Priest proud.
On most tracks, it's the voice of singer Matt Davies that establishes the strongest link between Funeral for a Friend and its emocore peers; he's got that earnest, everyboy quality, the voice of suburbanite dreams, even if that suburb is a Welsh one.
Funeral for a Friend will play the Vans Warped Tour this summer, joining the bill July 20 in Indianapolis.
www.spin.com /features/band_of_the_day/2005/06/050613_funeral   (365 words)

  
 FERRET MUSIC
FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND has already emerged as a phenomenon in their native Britain, drawing rave reviews and a rabid fanbase for their striking whirlpool of sound.
Funeral For A Friend began life in the South Wales town of Bridgend.
The band spent much of the long hot summer of 2003 on the road, with headline gigs and triumphant appearances at some of Britain?s biggest festivals (including Download, T In The Park, and Carling Reading and Leeds).
www.ferretstyle.com /artist.php?aid=24   (1568 words)

  
 Funeral for a Friend : iSOUND.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Funeral for a Friend consists of Matt Davies (vocals), Kris Roberts (guitar), Darran Smith (Guitar), Gareth Davies (bass), and Ryan Richards (drums).
Actually, the group got their name from a hardcore rock group from Florida, Planes Mistaken For Stars, that had a song entitled, “Funeral for a Friend.” The members, who are all from the Valleys of South Wales, formed the band in early 2002.
In September that year, the group was chosen to headline for Iron Maiden in the U.K. On October 6, 2003, Funeral for a Friend released their debut album entitled Casually Dressed and Deep into Conversation.
www.isound.com /funeral_for_a_friend   (455 words)

  
 Funeral For A Friend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
UK emo band Funeral For a Friend has been around for many years, just not known in the United States.
The release of Funeral for A Friends sophomore album “Hours” in July was the bands first proper album, as the last album ‘Casually Dressed and Deep In Conversation’ was considered with indulgent affection, but ultimately considered its collection of songs from throughout their career to date, a disjointed set of old favorites and newer material.
Funeral for a Friend is a superb band and just wonderful live.
www.rejectionwithoutreason.com /funeralhours/funhours.htm   (341 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Funeral for a Friend: Music: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dedicated to one of the band's founders, the late Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, it's a jazz funeral with hymns played at stately dirge tempo en route to the cemetery, then pressed to festive up-tempo counterpoint on the return.
Funeral for a Friend is a summary of the Dirty Dozen's greatest strengths, a memorable CD filled with joy and sorrow and real emotional power.
Dedicated to one of their band mates who died shortly after this CD was recorded, "Funeral For A Friend" is packed with life, love, faith and funk.
www.amazon.com /Funeral-Friend-Dirty-Dozen-Brass/dp/B00020HBZA   (1280 words)

  
 Pitchshifter (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The band can be analysed as to having two eras, the first in which the band played and pioneered British industrial metal with early albums such as Industrial and Submit.
Bands inspired by Pitchshifter include Lostprophets and Hundred Reasons, both of whom have supported the band on numerous tours.
People believe the band is called "Pitchshifter" because of the band's huge use of vocal manipulators (shifting the pitch of a voice in other words).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitchshifter_(band)   (455 words)

  
 Splendid Magazine reviews Dirty Dozen Brass Band: Funeral for a Friend
Much of modern jazz was borne out of New Orleans' nineteenth century funeral processions: brass bands accompanied mourners through the streets from the church to the cemetery, gradually transforming their music from slow dirges into festive celebrations as they neared the graveyard.
Though the pace slows down a little with "What A Friend We Have In Jesus", any thoughts of sadness or mourning are immediately banished with "Jesus On The Mainline", as the Davell Crawford Singers join the band and the uplifting results recall the church scene in the original Blues Brothers movie.
Rather than making death a time of mourning and sadness, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band prove that the best way to celebrate a life devoted to music is by leading a procession of friends and family through the streets, making the sort of joyful noise their late band member spent a career creating.
www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=10878978726361   (474 words)

  
 Dirty Dozen Brass Band | Funeral for a Friend
Such is the case with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, which has over 27 years and ten records occupied a central place in the musical life of New Orleans.
First, it salutes the New Orleans funeral band tradition, which is a mix of dirge and jam, praise and tribute, funk and spark.
The stereotypical funeral dirge is nearly absent from Funeral For A Friend, though the opener and closer have the low-down beats and slow pace to make it work.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=13717   (603 words)

  
 Funeral For A Friend Interview
All the bands on the main stages get 30 minutes to play each day, and the schedule is rotated so you might play right away at noon or close things out at 8pm.
One of the bands playing Warped this year is Funeral For A Friend.
In their native UK the band is huge, already garnering three Top 20 singles and a gold album for the debut Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/pop_music/117572   (522 words)

  
 BBC - Wales - Funeral For A Friend
BBC - Wales - Funeral For A Friend
Rock megastars in waiting, Funeral For A Friend came from South Wales to take over the world.
The Funeral For A Friend singer on girls, touring and the second album.
www.bbc.co.uk /wales/music/sites/funeralforafriend   (200 words)

  
 NME.COM - News - Funeral For A Friend cancel tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Funeral For A Friend : Manchester MEN Arena : 9 December
Funeral For A Friend have cancelled their current tour because singer Matt Davies has laryngitis.
A spokesperson for the band said that the rescheduled dates would be announced soon.
www.nme.com /news/funeral-for-a-friend/22158   (249 words)

  
 themusicedge.com :: Funeral for a Friend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Funeral for a Friend’s sophomore album, Hours, following last year’s surprisingly well-received Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation, begins in a swathe of hip feedback, before a short drum roll kicks in and vocalist Matt “The Rat” Davies lets out the first of many exasperated pleas: "Why do we need this."
Evenly split between metal-tinged, amped-up, highly stylised dirges and “lighters aloft” ballads, it is the toned-down material where the band’s lack of conviction is exposed.
Sarcasm aside, Funeral for a Friend does have a talent in overwrought, distorted anthems for the anemic.
www.themusicedge.com /moxie/news/reviews/funeral-for-a-friend.shtml   (410 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Casually Dressed and Deep In Conversation: Music: Funeral For A Friend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
I have seen funeral for a friend live a good few times now and i dont think they are world class as a band live,however on record they are tight sounding,focused and obsessed with bringing a melody to the surface,some say they sold out here,to me they just became a better band.
Do yourself and the band a favour, don't buy this version, instead try to track down the US import version which should be out some point this year.
In the US Funeral are being handled by indie-label Ferret Music, who neither have the cash or the inclination to pull this kind of paranoid stunt, so the CD is highly unlikely to have any problem playing properly.
www.amazon.co.uk /Casually-Dressed-Conversation-Funeral-Friend/dp/B0000DD997   (1148 words)

  
 Punknews.org | Ferret Signs Funeral For A Friend
The band is currently on tour with From Autumn To Ashes, Cave In and Every Time I Die.
Funeral For A Friend....this takes the trophy for being the LAMEST band name ever....fucking tards.
geez, they named their band after a planes mistaken for stars song that came out 2 years ago so they couldn't of been around for that long.
www.punknews.org /article.php?sid=7037   (802 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Funeral For a Friend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Funeral for a Friend plays major label screamo, hair dyed jet fl stuff that sounds a lot like Thursday: singy parts, screamy parts and lots of crunchy guitars.
The whole time the band will be doing the same stuff: chugga crunch crunch guitars, off kilter drums, over-dramatic break-downs, etc. His transition from singng to screaming sounds forced and silly.
Much in the same way that Poison, Warrant, White Lion and Ratt completely bastardized metal in the late 1980's, bands like FFAF are taking melodic post-punk and slicking it up for the masses.
www.ink19.com /issues/september2004/musicReviews/musicF/funeralForAFriend.html   (195 words)

  
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 Funeral For A Friend, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Funeral for a Friend is just that, a complete reenactment of a New Orleans funeral or "homecoming." The Dozens played them at the beginning and continue to.
The band performed it in the streets leading the horse-drawn carriage procession.
The mind-blowing thing is the sound; though this was recorded in a studio, the listener feels like she's in the middle of a throng of marchers, surrounded by the band and the choir.
www.emusic.com /album/10825/10825897.html   (480 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hours: Music: Funeral for a Friend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Funeral for a Friend skillfully inject enough variety into these tunes to make one hell of a rollercoaster ride, again striking a balance -- this time between consistency and unpredictability.
Where other recent releases from bands like Armor for Sleep have fallen short in the inspiration department, one listen of "Hours" just might leave you breathless as in the aftermath of a tornado which has left you all ruffled and swept away from the herd.
I think a band like this can go far, as musicians, as artists....but who knows what the motives or ambitions of most these kinda bands are.
www.amazon.com /Hours-Funeral-Friend/dp/B0009I7NP8   (1598 words)

  
 VH1.com : Funeral For A Friend : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
magazine, instant hype that paid off in the shape of a record deal with Warner Music U.K. Funeral for a Friend's debut full-length, Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation, was issued in October 2003.
Meanwhile, Funeral for a Friend embarked on a series of high-profile touring engagements, including a series of European dates opening for Iron Maiden.
Funeral for a Friend returned in June 2005 with Hours, their second full-length; more touring followed, including the band's first stint on the Warped Tour.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/funeral_for_a_friend/bio.jhtml   (281 words)

  
 Funeral For A Friend reviews, music, news - sputnikmusic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Funeral for a friend was founded in early 2002 in Wales.
Already in August 2002 the first EP "Between Order And Model" is released on Swanseas Mighty Atom Records, produced by Joe Gibb, who already worked together with Janeu's Addiction and Leftfield.
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 funeral for a friend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Wales does appear to be producing a vibrant scene at the moment, and FFAF are perhaps second only to Lost Prophets in popularity.
These are now unavailable, and have been repackaged as “Seven ways to scream your name” which is to be released on the 21st of October.
However they are not a carbon copy of these bands and are extremely good at what they do.
www.modzine.com /reviews/funeralforafriend.html   (420 words)

  
 [Music Channel] UGO Players :: Funeral For a Friend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Artist Bio & Facts Funeral For a Friend roars out of Wales - yes, Wales - with a sound that captures the trials of growing up and a set of fabulous haircuts.
The band first appeared on the scene in 2002 with a series of singles and EPs that made them a well-recognized name in the UK.
Why We Like 'Em We generally have mixed feelings on emo, but Funeral For a Friend manages to avoid a lot of the pitfalls inherent to the genre and instead deliver a high-voltage rock assault that still tugs at our heartstrings and has us banging our heads.
www.ugo.com /channels/music/ugoplayers/artist.asp?id=16561   (163 words)

  
 Funeral for a friend and four ways to scream your name, nu metal rock band cd review (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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Funeral For A Friend are truly an exception.
Like Jimmy Eat World, Boy Sets Fire, Hundred Reasons and Waterdown, Funeral For A Friend are fuelled by emotion and a desire to captivate through the power of their music.
www.rock3.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /ffaf.html   (178 words)

  
 Rolling Stone : The Dirty Dozen Brass Band: Funeral For A Friend : Music Reviews
New Orleans' the Dirty Dozen Brass Band is the rotating roster of brass players created twenty-seven years ago to lead jazz funerals.
In a twist of fate, the band has returned to its roots after one of its own, co-founder Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, died of a heart attack.
Funeral for a Friend opens with the dirge "Just a Closer Walk With Thee," appropriate for the steps of the church, but soon moves into the melancholic yet ultimately uplifting "I Shall Not Be Moved," before hitting its revelatory stride with "Jesus on the Mainline," featuring the Davell Crawford Singers.
www.rollingstone.com /artists/thedirtydozenbrassband/albums/album/6065206/review/6068436/funeral_for_a_friend   (198 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/funeralforafriend
Now, we're winding down the machine that is Funeral, touring mode is coming to halt while we regroup, learn what is is to sleep in a bed that doesn't move and waking up in the same place for more than two days in a row.
We'll see you all in a week or two across the UK and for Download, let's all go out on a big family style party, lots of singing, dancing and screaming.
To our friends around the world we shall see you all in 2007 so keep you ears to the dirt tracks on the floor and wait the return of the Funeral For A Friend Monster Bash 2007!
www.myspace.com /funeralforafriend   (865 words)

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